A Shell gas station at the corner of Wellington St. West and Spadina Ave. is photographed on Nov 24 2010. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)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.
Department of False Economy
Buying in bulk and other money saving tips that could end up costing you more in the end.
Gold: Get Over It
An argument on why on why gold is for speculators and not for investors from adviser Kathleen Clough of PWL Capital.
PWL in Toronto has a nice little charitable thing going on this holiday season. It's inviting people in for a portfolio analysis this month or next and not charging a thing. Instead, it's suggesting a $250 donation be made to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation.
Discovering Vanguard
Vanguard is a U.S. mutual fund company that moved into exchange-traded funds a few years ago and is now making inroads into that market because of its rock-bottom fees. Now, we're starting to see Canadian investors and money managers get more interested in Vanguard ETFs. Here, one firm explains why it likes the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF.
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Rob Carrick