Genymoney.ca: Make the Most of your Money
Personal finance, is very personal. Here’s where you can find posts about debt, about money affects your family life, and how to split finances when you have income inequality between you and your spouse.
To start, here are 6 Canadian personal finance blogs you should follow. These bloggers also share their own finance journey.
I’m an avid reader of investing and finance books and here is also where you’ll find book reviews on this subject. To help you get started with Canadian investing, here are 5 must read books on personal finance for Canadians.
Even a topic such as how to give a gift of a physical share of stock is included (we gave our son a BRK.B stock certificate for his first birthday).
Finally, there are strategies in this section to increase and maximize your Canada CCB (Child Care Benefit). It’s great to get free money from the government, a monthly cheque to deposit.
As promised, here is Part 2 of 40 Financial Lessons in 40 Years. These financial lessons are more focused on the personal finance rather than investing. If you want to read the financial lessons that I learned in the past 40 years, geared towards investing, …
I turned the big 4-0 recently and thought it would be good to do a 40 financial lessons in 40 years post. I had a great day, it was sunny, and I spent it with my loved ones, my kids didn’t seem to fight that …
Raising children is not for the faint of heart and it’s definitely expensive, but there are government benefits that you can take advantage of to help with that. The Canada Child Benefit is a non-taxable benefit paid out to Canadian families to help them with …
The First Home Savings Account was introduced April 1, 2023. There is a lot of buzz about the tax free First Home Savings Account (FHSA) and for pretty good reason. It’s another tax shelter to help you get towards your Canadian dream of owning a …
Read moreTax Free First Home Savings Account Canada (The FHSA Explained)
I’m a big fan of no fee banking in Canada. I hate paying banking fees and I actually never have (with exception of accidentally paying for the month a few times, but I managed to get it waived with a phone call). I have a …
Read moreNo Fee Banking in Canada: Best Options For Day-To-Day
I’ve been reading a lot about generational wealth on financial social media from millennials and generation X parents, and how it’s something they aspire to. There’s inflation to contend with, rapidly rising housing costs, and everything is just costing so much more. As a parent …
A number of people in the Canadian Fintech Twitter realm recommended Beat the Bank: The Canadian Guide to Simple Successful Investing by Larry Bates so I thought I would add it to the 5 personal finance books I set out to read for 2023. Here …