I don’t think too many people are aware that Ian McGugan, editor of MoneySense, is now blogging on personal finance topics. So is MoneySense columnist Rob Gerlsbeck.  Their postings can be found on the MoneySense.ca website.

Many personal finance books talk about cutting out unnecessary expenditures from one’s budget -- like the daily latte at Starbucks -- as a way of accumulating savings. Others talk about spending smart, clipping coupons and whatnot.

Media catching onto distorted house-price statistics Another reason for do-it-yourself investing. And a second reason. And a third.  A clear winner in the RRSP vs. TFSA debate. Shopping for corporate bonds like going into a candy store. More love for bonds. Special report on self-directed investing. Eliot Spitzer’s thoughts on salary caps for CEOs  

For me, Findependence Day had a few lessons “in between the lines.” One pertained to marriage/children and how they can affect the pursuit of financial independence (as discussed before in this blog).

Jonathan Chevreau’s Findependence Day is an entertaining read. I picked it up for a review of some financial-planning topics but found myself flipping the pages to see what was going to happen next to the central characters. To make sure I didn’t miss some of the pointers, I skipped back through ...

Jonathan Chevreau’s Findependence Day is a tour de force: a personal-finance book that is hard to put down. It uses the story format of David Chilton’s Wealthy Barber to pass on financial-planning lessons -- but in a more entertaining way thanks to extensive use of dramatic techniques customarily employed by writers ...

For many, it’s not extravagant spending that breaks the budget. It is unforeseen incidents like traffic violations that lead to fines and boost auto insurance premiums for several years.