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The Globe and Mail's Smart Money section is dedicated to giving you what you need to manage your personal finances successfully. Smart Money appears every Saturday in The Globe and Mail and on globeinvestor.com.
Before you decide to rebalance, you need to benchmark your investments against major stock and bond indexes, ROB CARRICK writes
It's time to make sure you received your fair share of the gains served up by the major stock indexes and a lot of mutual funds in the past year.
TONY MARTIN profiles a Calgary man who puts a lot of credence in technical analysis
Good hockey players like Ted Oliver know the key is to skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is. And lousy hockey players like your faithful correspondent know that's easier said than done.
A weekly scorecard of some of the lowest and highest rates and yields across Canada.
MORTGAGESThe lowest rates posted for one, three and five year closed mortgages.1-YEAR CLOSED PACE Savings and Credit Un 3.65Metro Credit Union3.69ING Direct 3.7Ukranian Credit Union 3.7ICICI Bank Canada3.75Average rate4.563-YEAR CLOSED Citizens Bank of Canada4.4Alberta Motor Assoc. 4.43ResMor Trust4.44GMAC Residential Funding4.45ING Direct4.45Average rate5.24
If you're looking for some holiday cheer this year, don't ask Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to provide it. Scrooge might as well have been a tax collector. In Dickens' story, Scrooge acted a lot like CRA today.
Dow Jones industrial average (Star)10,827.12, up 177.20 (index)The Santa Claus rally came right on cue, pushing the Dow to a 31/2 -year high and sending traders home with extra tinsel in their pockets. 'Course old St. Nick doesn't deserve all the credit; falling oil prices helped, too.
