The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.5% per year over the past 152 years (1871 to 2023); note that this is the “simple” average across all years (also known as the “arithmetic” ...

Lesley-Anne Scorgie is a Toronto-based personal finance columnist and a freelance contributor to various sites, including the Star / Toronto Star. @TorontoStar. This week, I read her holiday shopping ...

Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition that includes some TFSA year-end tips! Before those tips and other links, some recent reads and reminders: My wife started to work part-time earlier this year.

Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition on the subject of how to safeguard your retirement plan. While I’m still catching up from my vacation, a bit, including answering reader emails, I’m now up to ...

Wow, quite the week to date in U.S. politics! I’m going to ignore too much more coverage and thoughts on that since it can be far too polarizing to discuss. Instead, I’ll try and stick to financial ...

Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition, things you can learn from travel. I’m back from vacation (just a few hours ago in fact….) and I have a LOT of reader emails and other items to catch-up on – ...