CFO Financial Independence Hub; author Findependence Day, Columnist at @MoneySense. Semi-retired. @JonChevreau@mstdn.ca. Also on Threads & Bluesky.

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Joined February 2009
Priorities
The fact that Trump will remove tariffs to help Republicans win elections, but he won’t remove tariffs to help Americans afford necessities, tells you exactly what his priorities are.
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A whopping 72% of Gen Z investors said they had already made changes to their retirement savings or investment portfolios in anticipation of the November elections vs. just 17% of Baby Boomers, according to the Nationwide Retirement Institute. bit.ly/4jFLJbh
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RT @factpostnews: A thunderous crowd erupts into cheers as Amy Acton takes the stage into Ohio
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Love me some inflation hedging
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Has anyone ever done the calculation as to how much someone could get if they invested their own equivalent of CPP payments over 40 years? At day a 6% return? I bet it’s higher than the controlled amount
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Yes... ✋... will look at my CPP calculator and report back later
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It looks like CPP and OAS. 👍
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Here you go... ultimately depends on the assumptions and the specifics, as you can see here, but call it 4.5% to 5.5%
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"To people whose minds go blank when they hear something ending in 'illion', all big numbers are the same." ~Douglas Hofstadter's "On Number Numbness"
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Please, let this happen!
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Tom Bradley on Musk Corp. (Tesla/SpaceX) theglobeandmail.com/investin…
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Rotate those sectors!
Sector rotation. No one knows if there will be a follow through.
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87 per cent of actively managed Canadian equity funds. -- Globe and Mail
87 per cent of actively managed Canadian equity funds ➡️ underperformed the Toronto Stock Exchange #TSX in first half of 2026, according to a report released this week by index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices. Equal-weight and asset-weighted basis, actively managed Canadian equity funds returned an average of 8.8 per cent over the first six months of the year, vs. a gain of 11.2 per cent for the TSX Composite. Canadian equity funds performed worse against their benchmarks than their U.S. counterparts. A total of 67 per cent of all active large-cap U.S. equity funds underperformed the S&P 500 index in the first half, according to a previously released S&P Dow Jones report focused on U.S. funds. theglobeandmail.com/investin…
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Donny will be steamed if Melania beats him to a Nobel!
Exclusive Senior Advisor to First Lady Melania Trump Marc Beckman: "Yesterday she single-handedly brokered a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine"
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