Friday, December 4, 2009

Short Takes: Exchange-Traded Notes and more

1. Preet explains how leveraged Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) hide snowballing interest charges.

2. Big Cajun Man found that opening a Registered Disability Saving Plan (RDSP) isn’t as easy as opening RRSPs and TFSAs.

3. Million Dollar Journey looks at how to claim a capital loss on a de-listed stock like Nortel.

4. Mike at Four Pillars decided to collapse his leveraged investing plan (the web page with this article has disappeared since the time of writing). The big danger for anyone considering leveraged investing is that it will seem like a great idea when the stock market is booming (expensive stocks) and will later seem like a terrible idea when the stock market is crashing (cheap stocks). At least Mike stuck it out for the last 9 months while stock prices rose from their lows.

5. Potato concludes his story of looking for a place to rent in Toronto and has some advice for landlords.
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  1. Big Cave ManDecember 4, 2009 at 7:47 AM

    Thanks for the mention, still no sign of the RDSP, but I did break one of the stone knives I used while filling in the forms, so maybe that will delay it...

    Have a superb weekend

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  2. Four PillarsDecember 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    Thanks for the link.

    Leveraged investing was quite interesting and even fun at times but I'm glad I'm not doing it any more. :)

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  3. PotatoDecember 5, 2009 at 2:10 AM

    Thanks for the link!

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