Isn't $10 000 a 20% raise over the median Canadian income? If you can get it that's great but I'm very doubtful that many people have the ability to increase their income by that much. More...
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Isn't $10 000 a 20% raise over the median Canadian income? If you can get it that's great but I'm very doubtful that many people have the ability to increase their income by that much. More...
What I do is have two separate accounts in quicken for my rrsp: one in CAD for tracking my Canadian investments and one in USD for tracking US investments. The big disadvantage with this is that...
I'm really not sure why I would want to buy a REIT where the majority owner is far and away the largest tenant. Feels like a pretty big conflict of interest to me.
I'm sure people will be lining...
I want to point out that there are scams out there that claim that you can donate donate some amount to a certain charity, say $1000, and then get more than $1000 back as a tax refund. Do not fall...
In both cases, the company actually did you a favour? :)
*yawn*
Gold advocates have been predicting terrible inflation for years. It hasn't happened yet and it won't happen until the economy stops stalling, at which point QE will no longer be necessary...
I don't think that MS buying RIM could ever have worked, really. Remember, RIM bought QNX two years ago and still hasn't been able to release new QNX-based phones. MS buying RIM and switching the...
Yeah, tracking the Gambit in Quicken is a huge pain. I think that what I did to track it was (for a CAD -> USD conversion) enter the buy and sell in the Canadian account, and transferred the...
I was under the impression that all distributions from foreign ETFs are taxed as income and don't get any favourable tax treatment, but I'm certainly prepared to be wrong on that(this seems to back...
25% Canada
37.5% US
37.5% Intl./Emerging Markets
I have trouble believing that there is a single public company out there where trading in options on the company's stock wouldn't be considered a violation of the insider trading policy, no matter...
Not the Feds' announcement, but the Fed's announcement(the Federal Reserve).
I certainly wouldn't *replace* traditional international funds with emerging markets, but if it's feasible making them a part of your international allocation is a good idea.
Yeah, but the debt coming due reduces the amount of outstanding debt, giving the US some room under the limit with which they could issue new debt. They would probably have to come up with the cash...
I don't see how you are taking on any more currency risk, compared to other methods of converting to US dollars. If you own DLR, then you lose money if the US dollar declines against the CAD. But...