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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
If you get the big stuff right, you’ll be fine. But you can do even better if you get the details right too. For instance, when you’re considering a new mortgage, ask if the interest is compounded monthly or semi-annually. The less frequently the interest is compounded the better – semi-annual compounding could save you hundreds of dollars. Also, ask how often the rate changes. Most variable mortgages have rates that fluctuate monthly. However, there are several that only change every three months. This offers you more protection when rates are rising.
Finally, consider the prepayment options. The last thing on your mind when you take out a mortgage may be whether the bank will let you pay more than the minimum, but this is important. Four years from now, your salary might be higher, and if you’re allowed to pay extra, it goes straight to the principal and can knock years off your mortgage.
Most mortgages allow you to prepay between 10% and 25% to offer customers a “No Frills” product that severely limits your ability to prepay and can even make it impossible for you to switch from one lender to another entirely until the term of the mortgage is up. “One Canadian bank is offering just such a mortgage,” says Robinson. “The rate appears attractive; however savvy customers can find equal or better rates without the handcuffs.”
Finally, if you have a prepayment option on your mortgage and you plan to refinance, make your annual prepayment – usually between 10% and 25% – before getting the penalty calculated. If you don’t have the money, your mortgage broker will often give you a one-day loan, so your penalty can be reduced. “Very few people use this key option before having their mortgage penalty calculated.” But this simple step can save you hundreds of dollars up front.”
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- ING Direct Online Banking ING Direct is just one of the many online banks that have popped up over the last several years. They are available to do business online, over the phone or via the mail. They have several financial products that allow...
- Stashing Your Cash If you want to access your money quickly, where do you put it? Where do you hide your emergency fund, in a cookie jar, a safe or in the bank? Knowing where to stash your cash is vitally important, and...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
A Research estimates IT spending will grow by 9% this year and 7% next year. Compare that to the expected GDP growth of 2% or 3% for the overall economy. As well, technology companies are projecting an average earnings growth of 15% to 20% next year, versus 7% or so for the broad market. Investors expect the faster growing earnings to catch up with higher stock prices, which justifies the higher P/E multiple.
Even better, that valuation premium isn’t as high as it appears to be. These days many technology companies have tons of cash on their balance sheets, averaging between 10% and 20% of their market capitalization. A software company, for example, has cash assets representing some $4 per share. That means if you bought the company’s stock today at $25, you’re really only paying $21. After adjusting the price of the shares for the value of the cash on hand, the software company’s P/E ratio drops from 12 times to 10 times. Several technology stocks have become so cheap that they are now considered true value picks. Because of all that cash, the average technology P/E ratio is actually more like 18 or 19 times, not 21.
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- My First Dividend Payment: Thanks Johnson & Johnson Today I checked my brokerage account and noticed Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) paid a dividend on the 80 shares I bought a couple months ago. Not long after I purchased the stock, I set up a little spreadsheet indicating when...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
A lot has changed since Nortel. Valuations are reasonable now, and technology offers solid growth in an unpromising market.
Looking for growth? If you’re feeling brave, I know where you can find it: technology stocks. I know, you wore off the sector after losing your shirt on Nortel back in 2001. That turned out to be a wise move. If you invested in a technology fund 10 years ago, you would now be looking at an average loss of nearly 10% per year.
But it’s different now. Really. Technology stocks are no longer grossly over-valued, for starters. The whole sector has come crashing down to earth. Not only is the sector more attractive by historical standards, but arguably, compared to most other market sectors as well.
Today, the average price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of a typical U.S. technology mutual fund is 21 times. That’s approximately half of what it was 10 years ago. In March of 2000, at the crest of the dot-com bubble, the NASDAQ Index average P/E ratio peaked at an absurd 47 times earnings. It’s true that a P/E ratio of 21 is still high compared to the overall S&P 500 average of 16. However, technology stocks have always commanded a sizeable valuation premium over other sectors, and there are some good reasons for that. You might not want to jump in with both feet, but here are five good reasons why it’s time to give tech stocks another chance.
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
“By building up my RRSP, we are hoping to retire at 55 with our house paid off and a healthy amount in RRSP savings,” says Jennifer. “That will be one of our long-term rewards.”
Even with their savings plan on automatic pilot, it doesn’t mean that they don’t worry. But now they know how to manage. “If we get anxious, we just take out the financial plan Norbert helped us write and re-read all of that good advice,” says Martin. “We go through it step by step and make sure that we’re doing all that’s needed to keep on track. It’s reassuring and calms us right down.”
You can do the same by breaking your big financial goals down into manageable chunks and writing them down. For instance, if your goal is to pay off your mortgage as quickly as possible, you might start by changing your payment schedule from once a month to once every two weeks. Then you may decide to apply your annual RRSP tax refund to the mortgage principal every year too. Those two small steps alone could shave years off the length of your mortgage and make your goal of owning your home one step closer to reality.
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
So far the effects of changing either revenues or expenditures have been considered. What would happen if, during a time of unemployment, the government raised both its expenditures and its taxes, seeking to keep the budget balanced at all times? Although it is sometimes thought that such action would produce no net effect on the level of income, this need not be so. It has already been seen that $1 billion of extra G may have a different effect than a $1 billion reduction of T. If the government raises an extra $1 billion a year in new tax revenue at the same time that it spends an extra $1 billion a year, the circular flow will be unaffected only if the whole of the $1 billion of tax revenue is spent by the taxpayers. In such a case the effect of the government’s policy would be to reduce private expenditure by $1 billion and to raise its own expenditure by $1 billion; total expenditure, and hence national income and employment, would be unchanged.
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
The extra government expenditure is a new injection and income will rise until a matching flow of withdrawals has been generated. Since taxes are only one of several withdrawals, it follows that the rise in taxes must be less than the rise in government expenditure.
It is not clear that we can talk not only about the actual (or “current”) budget deficit or surplus at the present level of national income, but also about the potential budget deficit or surplus at any other level of national income, given current rates of taxes and expenditures. The potential deficit or surplus of particular interest is the one that would occur if the economy were at full employment; it is called the full-employment balance. Notice that the current deficit will be larger than the full-employment deficit for any economy whose current income is less than full-employment income; the reason is that as income rises, the yield from a given set of tax rates rises and hence the deficit falls.
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