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#1 ·
I thought I would start a thread so that we can get to know a little about the contributing community.

I'll kick things off. I am FrugalTrader (twitter), the blogger behind Million Dollar Journey and co-founder of Canadian Money Forum. To say the least, I am a personal finance and investing enthusiast who is on a journey to financial freedom.

Tell me a little about you!
 
#53 ·
I am a 40-year old, married to a wonderful woman, have an amazing 6-year old girl. I teach music at a great school - it is my dream job and although I enviously read about people retiring early I actually want to work until I drop.

Financially I am somewhat like Grover (Sesame Street). Means well, likeable but blissfully ignorant of real life. I have pledged to reform, though, and have been reading financial mags and blogs (started with MDJ, and linked into many others. Love them all, by the way) and and now am trying to soak up everything here.

Financially - have large mortgage, am just in process of converting it to Smith Manouevre through RBC (which holds all our business). Would love advice on that if anyone is familiar with RBC products, btw.
 
#54 ·
Hello everyone, I'm heyjude, a 50 ish physician from Winnipeg. I'm reasonably financially savvy and approaching financial independence. I'm quite diversified (60% equities, 20% fixed income, 10% cash, 10% alternative investments [real estate, precious metals and venture capital]). I do have financial advisers, whom I trust, but verify. I enjoy reading about finance and economics, which has helped me to make some good decisions independently, and I question everything. My risk tolerance has been moderately high (I did not panic during the meltdown) but over the next few years my priorities will change in the direction of capital preservation as my goal is to be able to retire by age 60. Looking forward to some good exchanges on the Forum!
 
#55 · (Edited)
Hi,

I am Sandip, 54 years old.
Recently retired from entrepreneuship to become a author.
Wrote a book in Dec 2008 ISBN 1440493332 (see amazon ) that though aplauded by all, I suspect is still not very well understood.
It has several new concepts in risk management and time and resource utilisation, so I decided to explain some of the complexities by a detailed step by step presentation through slideshows in slideshare.net, a popular forum with 8 million page views and now glamourised by the entry of White House presentations. My presentations till date on this Risk Management are as under and I would look forward to valued suggestions / discussions from / with knowledgable forum members on the subject.


Business Risk Management Series ( 954 views in 3 weeks ) ( Top presentation in finance segment in 2nd week July)
http://tinyurl.com/lzokqy


Business Risk Case study Ba 31 ( 1185 views in 2 weeks) (Showcased in the business & managment segment in 3rd & 4th Wk July)
http://bit.ly/LJofP


Business Risk Case study Ba 32 ( 385 views in 5 days) ( Top presentation in finance section in 4th week July )
http://tinyurl.com/lnkv9h


I hope some of you have time to go through these popular slideshows and see new techniques in Risk Management for market based, credit based and operational risk by variance measurement and Predictive analytics.


Thx and regards

Sandip
sen.sandip@gmail.com
 
#56 ·
Ali

Hi, my name is Ali and I am new to this site. I am a 24-year-old chemical engineer who recently wrote level 2 of the CFA program. I work for a large oil and gas company in a development role. I have been passionate about value investing in its original Grahamian style and its evolution for several years. I also see that Jim Chuong is on here, so I'll be visiting more often :)
 
#57 ·
I'm JC. I just turned 28, have two degrees, and I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life :S

While I figure that out, I'm working as an in-house writer for a publisher/news agency in Toronto. I'm happily unmarried and kids are probably only a year or two away for us.

Now that I've got a pretty steady gig, and with kids in sight, I've taken more of an interest in taking better care of my finances and my future, so I started budgeting and making modest monthly contributions to e-series funds at the beginning of this year (in RRSPs and a TFSA). This month, for the first time ever, my assets outweigh my liabilities (I had a hefty student loan) and I feel pretty good about that.

Lots to learn though...

Cheers.
 
#59 ·
Hi all,

I am 30 year old guy with an interest in finance. During the day I work as a lab rat (rather in a lab) and at night I enjoy learning, reading and talking about personal finance. I really got interested about a year or so ago and have been frequenting a few blogs on here. MDJ sent me over here and I have enjoyed what I have seen so far.

Look forward to talking with you all.

Rocky
 
#60 ·
Hi everyone

I have to say I am really happy to find this site with so many people who understand what a difference you can make with financial decisions. Most people I know seem to just accept the norm.

I took money seriously at a young age, growing up in rural NB with a single mother. I started working at 15 to pay for clothes and sports. By graduation I had a computer, investments, and a car (that insurance bill makes me cringe)

After high school I joined the military and got a degree in comp sci. Now I travel all over to control fighter jets for training and air defense. I’m looking forward to the Olympics next winter :)

I’m here because I want to start investing my savings and leveraging. I haven’t found an advisor I trust so I’ll do it myself.

Some day I want to have my own business in the peaceful country, as a mechanic or a farmer or who knows. My passions are motorsports, which means I’ll never be able to retire!
 
#64 ·
Steel City Brewed

Hello,

Well, I'm here to try and keep up to speed with any new developements or ideas that will help me improve my business. From the wide variety of individuals I have seen post, I expect I will get some interesting ideas and feedback from both veteran and rookie investors. I hope that my contributions will be meaningful and helpful.
 
#65 ·
Hi everyone,

My name is David (Dave) and I'm a fifteen year old male living in the Vancouver region of British Columbia. I've been interested in finance since I was seven, and bought my first stocks (through my parents' account) when I was nine. By the time I was ten I had around $3000 in my PC Financial high interest savings account. Overall, my investments in the stock market have yielded roughly a $4000 return, half of which is paid for with my college fund money and the other half being personal.

I have a blog called 'Teen Money Canada', which, as the name implies, is intended to give financial advice to teens, from the point of view of a teen. If you want to take a look, the link is http://teenmoneycanada.blogspot.com/ (I'll be getting a domain name in the next month or so).

I'm currently self employed as a guitar teacher. I have six students at the moment, each taking one hour long lesson a week at $15, which amounts to $90 weekly, $360 monthly and a yearly income of over $4300. On top of this, I take part in several online money making projects which have proven to be fairly successful for the amount of work I put into them.

I look forward to getting to know you all in the near future, though I already do know some of you quite well from reading the many posts on this forum, and reading several of your blogs.

-Dave.
 
#66 ·
Hey All,

My name is Will and I've been following FrugalTrader's blog for quite some time now.

I've become more interested in personal finance and breaking through debt for the past year due to being irresponsible with my credit cards during my undergrad years.

I've had many "setbacks" in terms of not being fully conscious of where my money was going and didn't appreciate its true value until I sat down and realized how much of a hole I had dug for myself.

Right now, I'm on my home stretch with the low thousands to go. It's been a little over a year since I've started on this journey of financial freedom, but I'll be out of credit card debt by December.

After that.. I'll have OSAP to deal with :)

I've been running my website Cheap Date Ideas since January, but only recently have poured my time and energy into this passion of mine in empowering couples to have thrifty, creative and fun dates.

I hope to connect with all you soon on these forums that Canadian Capitalist and FrugalTrader have created - and grow financially and other ways as well.

- Will :)
 
#67 ·
Hello Canadian Money Forum

Great Idea for a Forum.

I am Stuart McConnachie from Vancouver, BC.

I am the blogger behind InvestingInCanada

I work as a Commercial Real Estate Appraiser in Vancouver. Since the early 1990's I have been actively learning about the stock market and trading. I have studied and applied many different trading techniques over the years from day-trading to long term fundamental trading.

Other hobbies I am interested in include cooking, wine, hockey, more recently learning about seo.
 
#68 ·
Hello Canadian Money Forum

Hello all. How nice to find a forum that has such helpful advice and advisors when it comes to investing. I am a 53 year old guy living in Toronto, who started investing late in life. ( better late than never ) Thus far I have enjoyed reading many posts, and I look forward to reading many more.
 
#76 ·
Introduction

Hello,
I am happy to have registered for my first forum ever. I am joining to increase my knowledge of the workings of the financial industry as I am considering opening a home-based financial planning business in one year from now. I look forward to it!
Toni Bernhard
 
#77 ·
It's a pleasure....

Hello there,
So? Where to begin!...I guess I'll do the work intro first..

I'm 26 and have been working in the financial services industry for just about 5 years. I started off as an assistant to a few financial advisors, and decided to change contract and become an independent advisor, 2 years ago. I love the industry and plan to further my career by finishing the cfp program within the next two years. I'm presently contemplating whether or not I should stay where I'm at, or accept a position with a bank. Decisions, decisions!

Now a little bit about my personal side. I'm married and have two children (2 and 5). I'm fairly active, both in doors and out. I absolutely love being a roller girl in our local roller derby team, as well as a paddler for a breast cancer survivors (and supporters) dragon boating team during the summer. Music is a passion of mine as well!

I look forward to posting with all of you and reading the copious amounts of knowledge already held deep within the depths of this board.

xoxox
~Jayne
 
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