Tag: finance
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RBC Royal Bank’s myFinanceTracker Review
For some time now the RBC Royal Bank of Canada has offered an on-line, web-based personal finance application called myFinanceTracker. This is actually Yodlee presented through the RBC’s Online Banking web-site, with a bit of branding and curating. I’ve taken it for a test drive on a few occasions and have a bit of experience…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 3 of 5
News Outlets News papers and syndicates that deliver the news; in particular the outlets that have a business focus we expect to have a robust portfolio. We all typically have a news outlet we go to first for our news, and we might even log-in so we can leave comments. Most likely the newspaper offers…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 2 of 5
In this installment I’m going to take a look at what the big web portals have to offer. But first I want to review how returns are calculated and what you should be looking for from those numbers. Calculating Your Returns There’s a lot of ways to calculate your returns, but unfortunately all these web…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 1 of 5
Whether it’s just the curiousity for your favourite companies or fantasizing about what you’d do if you were Warren Buffet, or monitoring your RRSP, TFSA, and children’s RESP having an on-line portfolio manager and an offshore gambling guide for your investments is fun and convenient. Introduction Probably one of the best reasons to have your…
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An open (rant) letter to Canadian banks
Right after my daughter was born we opened an RESP for her, a family RESP as we were planning to have more children. We opened it at TD Canada Trust because the MER on their e-Series funds is practically non-existent. And all was good (well almost, read Mike Holman’s blog or his book for details…