Posts by Chris Enns
Can we stop pretending any financial advice is ‘unbiased’?
Sometimes I like to sit in the morning, sip my coffee and think about a time I was blissfully unaware of the 60 different financial designations that exist here in Canada. It’s fun to rant about the financial industry, but that’s not really what I’m in the mood for right now. Right now, let’s assume that most…
Read MoreSubmarines and the importance of conversation
I was in a lovely bookstore a few weeks ago browsing through the kids section…. because books with awesome pictures are the best books. #fact And I stumbled across a book about things that were under the sea. Every page had a theme of underwater things, and one of them was about submarines. It was…
Read MoreA Love Letter To Financial Planning (from an opera singing farmboy)
A few years ago I can honestly say I had given zero thought to what constituted a ‘financial planner’. I honestly didn’t care. A financial planner seemed like something for other people. People with tons of money and complicated financial situations. They were for people who actually used the other 90% of every bank, not just…
Read MoreHow Efficiency became my favourite ‘eff’ word
Way before I fell in love with music, I fell in love with words. It started off with the amazing children’s stories of Enid Blyton, E.B. White, and Madelaine L’Engle, and then as I got older, it grew to include the great poets: Shakespeare, E.E. Cummings, Pablo Neruda. UGHHH… even the english translations of Neruda…
Read MoreHow to succeed financially without millions of dollars (NBA Edition)
I’ve been following the NBA pretty closely for the last 5 years. I fell into a pretty intense fandom after the NHL lockout forced me to go somewhere else for my sports watching needs – and I never looked back. For those of you that aren’t NBA fans, there are tons of reasons why the…
Read MoreOversimplification: An RRSP is basically a cardboard box
You know what people in the finance world love to joke about? How no one understands what an RRSP is. Oh, how they laugh. They laugh like it’s ‘so simple’. And then when they try to explain it, they bog it down with so much bullshit, that even I get confused – and I’m pretty…
Read MoreWhy you might not be ready to start paying off your debt
I want you to imagine something… You’ve just gone downstairs into your basement (in this world you own a lovely house with a basement… yay!!!) and you instantly notice two things: There is about a foot and a half of water covering what used to be a very fine shag carpet Someone’s stuck a garden…
Read MoreWho’s buying homes in Canada – Infographic
I don’t know if housing has always been a loaded conversation in Canada… but it sure seems to be right now. The housing ‘discussion’ has gotten out of hand… with warring sides yelling their arguments at each other without ever increasing rage. I find lots of things annoying about this discussion, but a few things…
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