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Updates: August 18 – 24

Nasdaq, financial gain, income, effort, financial links, personal finance reads, personal finance blogs, financial articles,

Brian / August 24th, 2013 / 6 Comments

Earlier this week, I shared my epiphany over dollar value averaging – well, I’ve been continuing to read the book and have started doing some actual stock research. One of the suggestions I’ve been trying to follow is to look at the industry you work in. This works well for me because I work with a lot of senior executives at a number of small, publicly traded companies in a growing...

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Dollar Value Averaging – Where have you been all my life?

Dollar Value Averaging, stock market, investment portfolio

Brian / August 21st, 2013 / 13 Comments

Last weekend, I was out playing some racquetball with Freedom Thirty Five Blog and Modest Money. Jeremy has been raving about Jason Kelly’s book, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, for a few months now (check out his review). He brought me a copy to read, and in record pace (for me, at least) I’ve managed to read almost the entire book in a single week. It helped that I...

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Updates: August 11 – 17

Brian / August 17th, 2013 / 6 Comments

This weekend I left CF in the city working on some big work deadlines and headed out to visit my family a couple of hours away. For any Canadians who remember The Beachcombers, I grew up on the Sunshine Coast where the show was filmed. It’s a great place to escape from the city for a short while and not a very long trip. I’m also off to one of the nearby islands for the day to visit a...

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Updates: August 4 – 10

craft/nano breweries, brewery, beer, alcoholic drinks, bar, personal financial blogs to read, personal finance, financial articles, financial reads

Brian / August 10th, 2013 / 6 Comments

For the past several months, I’ve walked by a new brewery that was being built and eagerly awaiting it’s completion. On my way home from work earlier this week, I finally noticed they were open! Naturally I stopped by and had some of their beer! There are about 4 or 5 different craft/nano breweries opening up across Vancouver, so I hope to support as many as possible. It is really encouraging...

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