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If you prefer to do all your banking from the comfort of your home and don’t mind not having access to face-to-face help if required,…
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Is Questrade Safe & Secure? One of the most common questions that I have gotten in the comments below is: Is investing my money through…
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An RESP, or Registered Education Savings Plan, is a registered tax-deferred investment account designed to help pay for a child’s education. In other words, RESPs…
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Welcome to the annual Registered Education Saving Plan (RESP) update where I show transparency on our indexed investment strategy to help pay for our children’s…
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Readers often ask what my favourite personal finance apps are. It’s not an easy question to answer, as the apps we choose are highly personalized…
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Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Lending in Canada
Peer-to-peer lending in Canada is a unique niche for Canadian investors looking for higher returns on fixed income. If you want to act as the…
Canada’s Purpose Longevity Pension Fund: Is It a Guaranteed 6.15% Pension for Life?
For many years Canadians had some excellent options when it came to determining where they were going to get money from in retirement. You had…
Have I Given Up on the Smith Manoeuvre?
Out of many investing topics written about on Million Dollar Journey, the Smith Manoeuvre was one of the first and among the most popular investment…
Best Strategies to Hedge Against Stock Market Downfall
Having a stock hedging strategy is like having insurance… sort of. In general, it’s good to have a way to minimize damage when things go…
Willful Review 2025
You might think a will is something that rich people do in movies to pass on their “assets” (hockey card collections?) to their soon-to-be-rich heirs.…
Questrade vs Virtual Brokers: 2025 Broker Showdown
This Questrade vs Virtual Brokers 2025 comparison is a battle between Canada’s two lowest cost full-service discount brokerages, and a look at two of my…
Snag Your Free Canadian Expat eBook
Want to get paid a tax-free salary while working in a place where you don’t need to own a jacket or winter boots? Here’s the…
Financial Freedom Update (Q1) 2021 – First Update of the Year
Welcome to the Million Dollar Journey 2021 (Q1) Financial Freedom Update – the first update of the year! If you would like to follow my…
Insurance and Wills for Canadian Expats
When I talked to several non-resident tax and investment specialists during my Covid quarantine-induced expat research frenzy, the topic that kept coming up as “the…
Indexed Family Education Fund (RESP) Portfolio Update – 2021 Edition
Welcome to the annual Registered Education Saving Plan (RESP) update where I show transparency on our indexed investment strategy to help pay for our children’s…
Should You Bet Your House on Blackberry?
January 25th – 29th, 2021 is the week the stock market embraced full insanity – PhD theses will eventually be written about what just occurred in the stock market this week. One day smart people will be able to explain to what degree various factors contributed to the illogically hilarious/fun/dangerous ride that stocks such as Gamestop (GME), Blackberry (BB), NOKIA (NOK), and AMC (AMC) took us on over the past few days
The Best ETFs for Canadian Expats Around the World
When my wife and I decided to move to Qatar, I wanted to check and make sure that my index investing strategies could still be…
Eirene Cremations Review
Death is not a topic people like to typically discuss (for obvious reasons). However, death (and the is a reality for everyone and should be…
My Favorite Free Personal Finance Apps
Readers often ask what my favourite personal finance apps are. It’s not an easy question to answer, as the apps we choose are highly personalized…
PC Money Account Review – Loblaws Resurrects a New PC Financial No Fee Account
Note: We’ll be updating our PC Money Account Review as the details get fleshed out and the introduction promo offer codes get created. For many…
Is Hello Fresh Worth It?
Reviewing the Cost of Meal Kits During the Pandemic Over the last few weeks, several of my neighbors have been eyeing my weekly meal kit…
An Intelligent Conversation About Health and Investing In a COVID-19 World
We’re going to try something a bit different today. In a bid to learn more about Covid-19 and what it means for our day-to-day lives,…
A Serious Look at Canadian Finance and Investing AC (After Covid)
Nearly 500 people died in Spain yesterday. Humour and money are not the most important topics at the moment. People using war analogies to describe…
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