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Ben LeFort
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Everything You Need To Know About Investing In A TFSA
The Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) is a tax-sheltered account created in 2008 to help Canadians save for retirement and achieve other...
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Ben LeFort
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Everything Canadians Need to Know about RRSPs
The Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is a tax-sheltered account created in 1957 to help Canadians save for retirement. For my...
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Ben LeFort
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How Canadian Investors Can Minimize Foreign Withholding Tax
It's never been easier to be a DIY investor. Especially, if you only plan on investing In Canadian stocks and bonds. All you need to do...
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Ben LeFort
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2 Simple Steps to Perfect Portfolio Diversification
"Diversify your portfolio." It's a phrase that has become so common that even people who have never invested a single dollar in their...
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Ben LeFort
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How to Easily Manage the 4 Risks Facing Every Investor
While it is an undeniable fact that investing involves risk, most people don’t have a clear grasp of what risks are involved when...
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Ben LeFort
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I Will Teach You to Be Rich | Book Review
I recently finished reading "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" By Ramit Sethi. This is a great "beginner's guide for Millennials to manage...
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Ben LeFort
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The 3 Ways Investors Can Manage Their Money
Managing your investments can feel like an overwhelming (or boring) task to many people. There are a lot of important decisions that need...
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Ben LeFort
7 min read
Should I Pay down My Mortgage or Invest?
One of the longest-running debates in personal finance is whether it makes more sense to pay down your mortgage early or invest. If your...
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Ben LeFort
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How to Become a Millionaire or Reach Any Savings goal
The name of my company is "Making of a Millionaire" so you would think I would talk all the time about the goal of becoming a...
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Ben LeFort
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The 4 Stops on the Road to Successful Index Investing
Investors are born in darkness. At least, according to my favorite tweet from Investment consultant Rick Ferri who states that a...
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Ben LeFort
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Should I Leverage My Home To invest?
Once you have paid off your non-mortgage debt and maxed out your retirement savings accounts, you might start to explore different...
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Ben LeFort
7 min read
6 Things You Need to Know About Personal Finance
There are hundreds of millions of blog posts, videos, and podcasts on the internet talking about personal finance. A lot of that...
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Ben LeFort
4 min read
Should I Use Retirement Savings to Pay down Debt?
Two things are undeniably true when it comes to managing money. Being in debt is bad. Saving for retirement is good. In an ideal world,...
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Ben LeFort
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Can a $1,000 Wedding Really Make You a Millionaire?
Anyone who has planned a wedding in the past 10 years knows two truths. Weddings are expensive. Weddings are stressful. I have always...
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Ben LeFort
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The Unbelievably Simple Way to Beat the Best on Wall street
The more I write about investing the more I realize just how frustrated, confused and hopeless many people feel about investing. These...
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Ben LeFort
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How To Invest In Real Estate Like A Professional
Chad Carson is a real estate investor and coach. I’ve read Chad’s blog and have heard him give various interviews telling his story of...
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Ben LeFort
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How to Start Building Wealth with $25 a Month
I often hear people say they don’t want to start investing for their future or their retirement right now because they only have a few...
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Ben LeFort
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3 Pieces of Financial Advice to Ignore in 2020
For starters, don't listen to the "experts" who are telling you about the impending stock market crash.
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Ben LeFort
6 min read
4 Truths You Need to Know Before Investing in Stocks
Investing is a topic that a lot of people have strong opinions and aren’t afraid to share them. This leads to bias and irrational financial
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