Condo buildings in the Leslieville area of Toronto, April 2013.Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
The best of the web on money, markets and all things financial, as chosen daily by Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick.
Condos and the dreaded special assessment
A blogger highlights how motivated condo sellers in Ottawa are, as seen by them offering to cover the cost of special assessments in the building. He also links to an Ottawa Citizen article on a building where owners have been asked to pay between $40,000 and $66,000 on top of their regular condo fees.
A 50-year plan to retire well
A decade-by-decade roadmap to a comfortable retirement.
RRSPs as financial junk food
A financial planner takes issue with thinking that RRSPs are automatically a good place to put your money.
Read this to become a worldly investor
A massive online slide presentation that is full of great information for investors trying to plot a strategy for capturing returns outside Canada.
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