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If you know anyone who’s retired, you might want to share this article with him/her. This is about another funky investment product insurance companies have concocted: Investing in the death of others. This is called the DEATH BOND.   Let’s take a look at this *new* way of making money on the back of the graveyard.   You Die, I Make Money   Let’s pretend you are 80 years old and you have an existing life insurance policy. You don’t really need the insurance policy as your …

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      The news around the stock market is not too good these days. I’m writing this article late on Monday Oct 7th and no solutions have been found for the Government Shutdown. The market is down roughly by 1% over the past couple of weeks and we can expect more volatility if the problem persists.   At the end of this summer, we discussed Hindendburg Omens from right, left and center. All technical analyzes are clear: we are heading towards a market correction. Stocks …

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Today, I wanted to write something different. It’s like a exercise in writing fast as I tried to pull out of my brain 100 investment lessons you can read, understand and use within the next 5 minutes. So grab your coffee mug, take a sip and let’s start!   *Note, the 100 investment lessons are not in any particular order, they were simply pulled out of my brain in this order. 100 Investment Lessons   1. Never speculate by putting all your money in one stock. 2. Dividend …

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This is a guest post from a fellow Canadian blogger Robb. Robb Engen is a DIY investor and blogs about personal finance at Boomer & Echo.  You can follow him on Twitter @BoomerandEcho.   How well did your investments perform last year?  Did your portfolio beat the market?  Which market? You can look at your mutual fund prospectus or use a website like Morningstar to see how individual funds performed, but this won't give you your personal rate of return. You’ll need to …

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