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The Globe and Mail's Globe Investor section (which replaced Net Worth) is dedicated to giving you what you need to manage your personal finances successfully. Globe Investor appears every Saturday in The Globe and Mail and on globeinvestor.com. View our archive of past Globe Investor issues.
TOP STORY
It's time to start saving again
After years of putting away at least 10 per cent of their annual incomes, Canadians have forgotten how to save, GAIL VAZ-OXLADE reports.
By GAIL VAZ-OXLADE
With the holiday season quickly approaching, the mantra ''Save 10 per cent'' is about as far from our thoughts as bikinis and sunscreen. Madly charging about shopping up a storm with money we have yet to earn, many of us will rue the lack of planning come the January bill-paying season.
The art of giving
With almost 80,000 charities in Canada, choosing a cause to support can be confusing. Start by figuring out what your objectives are, GAIL VAZ-OXLADE suggests, and find the charity that best meets them.
By GAIL VAZ-OXLADE
The Muslims call it Zakah. The Jews call it Tzedakah. And the word ''charity'' comes from the French root ''caritas,'' which means ''Christian love.''
NET WORTH - BEST BUYS
A weekly scorecard of some of the lowest and highest rates and yields across Canada. The survey of mortgages, GICs and car loans - taken from a sample of companies by Cannex Financial Exchanges - covers posted rates only so consumers may be able to haggle for a better deal at some financial institutions.
Yes, it's possible to have too much in your RRSP
By TIM CESTNICK
My wife Carolyn told me this week that I had shocked her in more than just a couple of ways. I don't know what all the hubub was about. What happened, you ask? A few things. First, I got up at 5:30 a.m. every day this week and worked out for an hour. Next, I changed more diapers in a five-day stretch than she did this week (I admit, this was quite amazing).
Do-it-yourself investors sometimes do themselves harm
By ROB CARRICK
This isn't a warning about the dangers of investing for yourself, just an observation that it sometimes doesn't work for some people despite the cost savings and freedom.
It's time to look at how well we did
By BENJ GALLANDER and BEN STADELMANN
With the end of 2000 approaching, it's time to examine the stocks we mentioned through the year. To do so, we used globeinvestor.com's handy portfolio tool. We ''bought'' equal weights of each stock discussed when the articles went to press, and the application tracks the results.
STARS & DOGS
A selection of this week's winners and losers DOGS
Nasdaq composite 2,517.02, down 136.25 The Nasdaq is 29 years old. It took the index 24 years to top 1,000. It took three years to top 2,000. Topping the 3,000 took a mere 15 months. Two months was all it took to top 4,000. And then surpassing 5,000 was only a matter of 10 weeks. The amount of time to flush all that damn foolishness out of the market? Nine months and counting.
