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Week in Review – April 17

April 18th, 2010

Every weekend, we write a posting that summarizes interesting things happening in the blogosphere. It’s called “Week in Review” section. Here is the list of what’s happening this week.

Marketplace had a very nice video explaining SEC’s fraud allegations against Goldman Sachs. Senior editor Paddy Hirsch tried to explain it in a very easy way using an analogy of a horse race.

SEC goes after Goldman from Marketplace on Vimeo.

Million Dollar Journey had an alternative to retirement income ETF portfolio. What ETFs to own to earn high-dividend yield while preserving our capital.

Canadian Dream: Free at 45 had some ideas what to do when interest rates hike later this year. As indicated by Canadian Mortgage Trends, there was a report from Canadian Big 5 Banks that we might see 2.75% interest rate hike by end of next year. Better be prepared.

Week in Review – April 9

April 10th, 2010

Every weekend, we write a posting that summarizes interesting things happening in the blogosphere. Here is the list of what’s happening this week.

Intelligent Speculator has a series of “Google’s next billion dollar business”. How about getting more profits from Google’s free services, such as YouTube and Android? He also mentioned the possibility of Google to become financial data provider and financial research.

Canadian Couch Potato has two postings about tracking errors on Canadian ETFs. His analysis on iShares ETFs can be found here; while his analysis on Claymore ETFS can be found here.

Michael Johnston from EtfDatabase gave his takes on five important metrics to consider before purchasing ETF, i.e. 1) expense ratio, 2) index methodology, 3) depth of holdings, 4) tracking error and 5) tax efficiency.

The Big Picture is comparing anatomy of a crash: 2009 vs 1907. It suggests that we’ll have a big correction and then go side ways for about 2 years.

Canadian Capitalist had a peek on Warren Buffett’s personal portfolio. Apparently Buffett is holding mostly US large-cap companies that pay dividend.

Week in Review – April 2

April 3rd, 2010

First of all, sorry that we missed last week’s review because we went out of town. That’s why; we don’t have updates in this blog for a couple of days. For those who don’t know, every weekend, we write a posting that summarizes interesting things happening in the blogosphere.

Canadian Capitalist highlighted the fact that Canadian investors are being overweight in the Canadian market because of lowering risk of currency fluctuation and tax benefit, i.e. dividends from Canadian stocks receive favourable tax treatment.

Canadian Dream: Free at 45 discussed about hydrogen fuel cell as one of the alternatives of clean energy solutions.

Canadian Personal Finance Blog shared his top 5 investing regrets for us so. He hopes we can learn from them and not make the same mistakes.

Michael James on Money explained how “washing trades” works.

Million Dollar Journey had a couple of questions and answers about annuities, e.g. what the advantages and disadvantages are.

Canadian Couch Potato compared bond vs. bond funds. Which one should you own?

Intelligent Speculator had a list of best dividend stock picks for April 2010. Previously, he had also a list of best dividend ETFs.

The Financial Blogger about 6 reasons why he will not use a real estate agent to sell his house.

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