by admin | Apr 3, 2018 | Investing, Money Management
One of my Electrical students came to me for an interview for his Personal Finance course. We were both busy so all he took down were short answers. I promised him I would answer them more fully here. There were 3 main questions with some sub questions. The first...
by admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Investing, Money Management
I doubt there there has ever been a time where there are more people out there talking about money. I guess that includes me. I get at least half a dozen emails a day from investment sites that are just dying to tell me how to get the most from my money. They have...
by admin | Jan 23, 2018 | Investing, Money Management
February is the start of so called Registered Retirement, Savings Plan season. Every type of investment house is running adds about contributing to your RRSP. (Note most Credit Unions have access to Mutual Funds, but are not allowed to advertise that fact.) But...
by admin | Jan 23, 2018 | Investing, Money Management
One of my favorite topics is one of the 4 topics Canadians are not supposed to talk about . (Canadians don’t talk about Sex, Money, Religion, or Politics.) I like talking about Money, Politics and Religion. So this morning I had a great meeting with a...
by admin | Jan 3, 2018 | Investing, Money Management
I did something this week that I have not done in a long time. I went shopping with my wife, mother-in-law (mom) and my sister-in-law. I went because they needed a driver, due to the snowy roads. The trip reminded me why I don’t spend much time in Shopping...
by admin | Sep 23, 2017 | Money Management
Over the last couple of weeks I have been getting a lot of questions about Budgeting, so here goes. The questions usually sound like this. “I need to get control of my money so I better figure out this Budget stuff.” The word “Budget” simply...