Here is a Canadian flair to the Top Financial Blog concept. Top Financial Advisors should be aware of everything. The Canadian view of annuities, fixed annuities, and index annuities. If WealthVest Marketing will become the #1 FMO we need to help our advisors stay on top of all of these issue.
Financial blogs are a great money equalizer – people sharing information with others in a way that makes everyone smarter. But there are hundreds of theseSave blogs around these days, and some are just taking up cyberspace. Which are worth your time? For answers, we had a panel of experts choose their favourite Canadian personal finance and investing blogs.
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On the panel were Ram Balakrishnan, author of the popular Canadian Capitalist blog, Globe personal finance columnist Rob Carrick, Market Blog writer David Breman, and Chaya Cooperberg, an investor relations expert who contributes to the Globe’s Home Cents blog. We’ve compiled their favourites and a few of their comments on each below (they were not allowed to vote for their own blogs). Check them out on your own and then jump to the bottom of the page and vote for your favourite blog. Voting will continue until Monday at noon ET. We’ll tabulate the results and tell you more about the winners.
UPDATE: For a story on the winners, see The Best Canadian Money Blogs
PERSONAL FINANCE
(In alphabetical order)1. Canadian Mortgage Trends
www.canadianmortgagetrends.com
Such a smart and timely source of information on mortgages that you wonder how the Vancouver-based editors, Melanie and Rob McLister, have time to run their mortgage brokerage business.2. Canadian Personal Finance Blog
www.canajunfinances.com
The father of four behind this blog – he goes by the name Big Cajun Man – touches on all aspects of how to manage a loonie in frank and often personal entries.3. Four Pillars (now MoneySmartsBlog)
www.four-pillars.ca and www.moneysmartsblog.com
This recently renamed pillar of the Canadian personal finance blogosphere is written by a pair of anonymous guys who cover it all, but seem to have a special interest in real estate.4. Gail Vaz-Oxlade
gailvazoxlade.com/blog
The doyenne of debt brings her wise counsel and no-nonsense style to a wide range of financial matters, and she always attracts a ton of reader comments.5. Michael James on Money
michaeljamesmoney.blogspot.com
Mr. James positions himself as a financial amateur who writes for people like himself, and he knows how to keep things simple and breezy.6. Million Dollar Journey
www.milliondollarjourney.com
Personal finance and investing for the masses from a prolific blogger named FrugalTrader, who aims to be worth $1-million by age 35.7. Squawkfox
www.squawkfox.com
B.C. writer Kerry Taylor’s blog covers travel, household budgeting, resume tips and recipes, which is to say it’s a nice complement to the many personal finance blogs written by fine print-obsessed computer nerds.
INVESTING
(In alphabetical order)1. Canadian Couch Potato
canadiancouchpotato.com
Ready to chuck your mutual funds? Unsure about your stock-picking skills? Sounds like you’re ready for journalist Dan Bortolotti’s ongoing investigation of the benefits of index investing.2. Canadian Financial DIY
canadianfinancialdiy.blogspot.com
Blunt and detail-oriented, this blog covers both personal investing and financial issues of the day like stock market volatility and ideas for redesigning the retirement system.3. HowToInvestOnline
howtoinvestonline.blogspot.com
Smart and newsy investigations into all manner of investing and economic topics.4. Humble Student of the Markets
humblestudentofthemarkets.blogspot.com
Accessible and smart big-picture analysis of the stock market by portfolio manager Cam Hui. He’s generally bearish these days, but he backs up his views.5. Larry MacDonald
blog.canadianbusiness.com/category/larry-macdonald/
Mr. MacDonald is an economist, author and columnist who almost every day produces something of interest to those trawling for ideas on investments and portfolio management.6. Think Dividends
www.thinkdividendsblog.com
Nothing fancy here, just comprehensive coverage of what’s happening with the dividends paid by major companies and income trusts.7. Where Does All My Money Go
wheredoesallmymoneygo.com
The cool thing about this blog is that the proprietor, Preet Banerjee, works in the financial industry and is diligent about exposing its (sometimes ugly) inner workings.
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