Welcome to the readers from the Carnival of Personal Finance!
2Million, the host for the 48th Carnival of Finance, was kind enough to accept my submission to the carnival. This was actually my first submission to any carnival. I won’t be submitting an article every week because I’d rather submit quality posts and stay on topic. But every once in a while, I feel a need to share!
For new readers to Investorial, this is a blog whose mission is about exposing media influences and discussing their effects on its audience. We’ll …

Let me preface the remainder of this article by saying that calling this study inept is indeed generous. Does anybody feel like they are being fattened up for the slaughter like those brokers that screamed “tech stocks forever” in late 2001?
I read a recent Financial Post article that is helping to keep the well oiled financial marketing machine running. What’s selling like hotcakes off the shelves? One only has to look at the artificially propped up TSX composite index to realize that trusts (especially oil income trusts) are the …

Today, we are putting the finishing touches on the series, Rich At Any Age - A LifeCycle Guide To Personal Finance, by taking a look at financial living in your 60s. I can hear you already - why not go beyond the 60s? That’s a question you have to ask MoneySense.ca, who originally organized the series. This is also a perfect time to challenge other PF Bloggers out there who feel they can collect together articles that are relevant to people living in their 70s, 80s and beyond! Without further …

It has been a while since our last housing bubble update! For the people living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), you may want to file this under believe it or not, but I didn’t believe it until I read about this $45 million dollar home listed for sale on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in the papers this morning.
[...] in Oakville is not only the most opulent property ever offered for sale in Canada, it is the most visible symbol of a real estate market gone ballistic [...]
A …

We are getting closer to the end of the series, Rich At Any Age - A Life Cycle Guide To Personal Finance. So you made a decision on how to live your financial life in the 40s. But that’s nothing compared to crossing the big FIVE-OH. Living half a century is something to be proud of, but are you planned and ready for the next half? What do you need to know? Let’s find out!
Show TimeBy the time you reach your 50s, you’ve got a lot to look forward to. …

Day 3 of the series Rich At Any Age - A LifeCycle Guide To Personal Finance puts you at a fork in your financial path. You’ve dug yourself out of the crammed life of your 30s. But how would you react to the next decade of your life? It’s no wonder that mid-life crisis usually begins at the beginning of your 40s! Remember to supplement this article by reading the related MoneySense.ca articles!
Prime TimeYour 40s are the years when you finally begin to see the fruits of your hard …

After my previous blog on Jim Cramer, you may feel that I have a strong opinion of the person and the show. I thought I should perhaps sit through an entire show of Mad Money to justify my decision, and guess which show I saw? It was funny watching the students at the University of Michigan egg on Jim; turning the show into a financial version of Jerry Springer with all the hooting, hollering and let’s not forget the booyahs.
Obviously my opinion has not changed regarding Cramer. But I realized …

Welcome to day two in a series rehashing MoneySense’s Rich At Any Age - A LifeCycle Guide To Personal Finance. We discussed starting out in your 20s. We will be observing the financial journey that people in their 30s undergo. As before, we will supplement it with related articles from MoneySense.ca
The Crammed YearsThe balance sheet for your 30s looks pretty lopsided: heavy on the debt, stress and responsibility; light on the free time. If you’re like many people in their 30s, you’re juggling mortgage payments, a young family and a …