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Who Would Say ‘No’ to Free Money?

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A survey conducted by Sun Life Financial found that one in five Canadians who have access to a group RRSP in which the employer provides some sort of a match, do not take full advantage of the benefit. A bit of a…

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Efficient Market Theory and Indexing

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A good definition of efficient markets can be found in a paper by Eugene Fama titled Random Walks in Stock Market Prices:
An “efficient” market is defined as a market where there are large numbers of rational…

Lessons from the ABCP Fiasco

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The Financial Post profiled six of the estimated 1,600 retail investors whose savings were frozen when the asset-backed commercial paper market froze last summer. These retail investors have hundreds of thousands of…

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The Costs of Home Ownership

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A reader left the following comment on an earlier post: “For someone who frets over a difference of 50bps paid to a mutual fund company, I find it surprising that there isn’t a mention of the 6% commission you pay…

Shop Around for Long Distance

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Last week, it was widely reported in the press that Telus was ordered to refund the “network access charge” ($2.95 per month) that was slapped on customers who did not use its long-distance network. The news is a…