Category: learning

As you may already know, a Task Force on Financial Literacy is working on a report and recommendations for a national strategy to strengthen financial literacy in Canada. The report is for the Minister of Finance …

Internal Rate of Return (IRR) calculator is the first piece of a planned series of useful free on-line tools to help investors with assessing the time factor when dealing with cash flows, even if with uneven amounts and irregular intervals. …

The more responsibility you take for your own financial plans and management, the better the chances for success. Complete outsourcing can be expensive and risky, while devoting personal time, attention and effort to it will most likely bring great rewards. …

This section is mainly a collection of video clips and other documents with a few connecting comments. These ‘gurus’ differ from the mainstream, and are recommended as sources to heed to. Some of the documents are embedded in this page; …

Selection of a few excerpts from newsletters during the last decade are meant to illustrate the benefits of the broad-based, holistic, systemic approach. It’s also a demonstration of the falsity of claims that the current crisis was unpredictable.

While despair and other negative reactions to the ongoing financial and economic crisis are understandable, one can also see it as an opportunity or perhaps even a potential savior. Collectively, we were steamrolling ahead on an unsustainable path, with seemingly …

This is perhaps the most important of these pages and posts. It describes my approach to planning, and argues against the no-sayers who deny the feasibility of useful planning activity.