Financial lessons are hard to learn when you're using an advisor who doesn't care about your money. The best way to learn is on your own.. 

Buying a new phone is exciting, especially if you're a techie like I am, but is getting additional smartphone insurance worth it?

Is anyone else sick of dealing with bureaucratic machines that are absolutely terrible at what they are trying to accomplish?

Starting Your Career Rurally can give you an edge over people living in the cities, we'll show you why.

Basically a student line of credit is sort of a midpoint between a student loan and carrying a balance on a credit card.

Preparing for university is a task which can be extremely stressful, time consuming, and comes with many new responsibilities.

The decision on whether or not to go back to school to upgrade your skills (whether you are talking about a graduate degree, a diploma, or a certificate program of some kind) often hinges on the financial viability of it.

Most people are pretty familiar with the infamous "Freshman 15". The universal idea is that when you move away from home and/or are off of a set schedule for the first time in your life, you might make some decisions that aren't in your best long-term interests. However, while the solution to putting on some weight is pretty straightforward, other long-term problems created in your freshmen year can be much more complex and difficult to solve.

What is an index? If you have heard these numbers and terms before and not really known what they have meant don't worry, you aren't alone.

There's always been a debate as to whether or not term insurance or some form of "whole" life insurance is the best kind to have.

Many people assume that the information on their credit reports is all good because they pay their obligations on time and always have. While that's the basic way credit reporting works, it isn't without its flaws.

t's interesting to see how blind we often are to expenses that are tied to emotional attachments. Some people "love" their sports team and wouldn't think twice about multi-thousand dollar season tickets.

If you're like me, you hate those pesky fees in life. You know the ones I'm talking about, the little things that get tacked on wherever you go.

Student advisors may have a pretty bad reputation of ruining your academic career. This is often brought on by just by making a normal human mistake, or just some terrible advising.

There is this cool thing that happens when you ignore all the stock picking stuff that people talk about, stop paying attention to the "experts" on TV and simply invest your money in a dispassionate and consistent manner. The aforementioned "cool thing" is that you end up with a lot more money.

I'm a huge fan of the Globe and Mail. I read it every day, and the finance section is usually full of good stuff including my boy Rob Carrick who has become a sort of Canadian guru in own right. We have even been featured in the online version of the publication on several occasions, so it is with extremely light feet that I tread on this topic of criticising one of their columns.

how we can be so arrogant as to think that we stand a good chance of beating the market over an extended time frame. "The market" is the average rise and/or fall of the market you are trading within and there is a reason why it is the numerical average!

On the surface it appears that I am not thankful for what I have, and that "the grass always looks greener". Maybe there is some truth to that; however, I believe there is something else at work there as well.