Thursday 13 November 2008

Time to Put Readers to Work ... and There's a Reward!

There isn't only one answer or source of information when it comes to investing. A diversity of views and good ideas can come from many sources, both professional and amateur.

This blog would like your input and as a reward, two people selected randomly from those who answer, one for each category, will receive a copy of Dr. Sherry Cooper's well-regarded recent book The New Retirement. See reviews on Chapters Indigo, Amazon, CanadianFinancialDIY.

Your task: in a Comment at the bottom of this posting, either,
  1. Name either your favorite investing book and a one line summary on why it is useful to you as an investor, or
  2. Name and provide a link to your favorite online investing website, whether it's a blog, news site, data site etc and again say in one line why it is useful.
That's it.

I will use the responses to build some permanent lists and links to make this blog more useful for everyone.

Use something other than "anonymous" as your comment name so I can get in touch with the winners and mail out the book, which will require having the winners' postal address. You will not be put on a mailing list or be receiving ads, junk mail or anything else except the book. The contest closes in a week from this post on November 13th, i.e. midnight on November 20th.

3 comments:

Jordan said...

Favorite investment book: The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein. It's full of practical advise and gives any average person enough knowledge to manage their own investments well.

Favorite sites:

1+2) CanadianCapitalist.com & MillionDollarJourney.com. Together these two blogs are the single best investment resource for a DIY Canadian investor.

3) finance.yahoo.ca - Great financial news and information & awesome graphs.

CanadianInvestor said...

Hey Jordan, You're over the deadline but since I make the rules, your comments merit a book anyway. Drop me an email so I can have the book forwarded to you. My email: jean dot lesperance at googlemail dot com

Must finally read that Bernstein book. Praise abounds for it.

Anonymous said...

My favorite book (it has to be since it's the only one I have read so far) is Stock Investing For Canadians For Dummies. It is easy to read and is a great way to get a newbie interested in serious investing.

As for the internet, I get my daily dose of CanadianBusiness.com and lapresseaffaires.cyberpresse.ca (in french).

Finally, I agree with Jordan about the awesomeness of the graphs at the Yahoo Finance website although I prefer the american version (.com).