Are you engaged? Married? Wondering if you should combine your finances during marriage? What are the pros and cons of a combined financial plan? Lets explore this topic and figure out why you should or should not combine your finances when youre married. Everyone Ive met with when talking about this topic has always been [...]
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Posted May 14, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
Belts are tight at Queens Park, which may well mean that the Ontario Venture Capital Fund is set for the high jump. First announced in 2007 , it has made just four commitments in the space of four years: BlackBerry Partners Fund, Edgestone Venture III , Georgian Partners and XPV. That tortuously-slow pace is a [...]
Posted May 8, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
Reports show that even the best credit card companies can falter in the eyes of regulators. Although they may not be as predatory as their less established counterparts may, the better credit card companies can also be found guilty of things that are negative in the regulators views. Recently it was announced that Discover and [...]
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Posted April 11, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
My wife and I have been living in our current home for almost 6 years now. Weve loved living here, but as we consider having a second child wed like to have a bit more space to move around in, as well as having more outdoor living space at our home. Our current house (shown [...]
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Posted April 7, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
The rights and responsibilities of Labour are and should be clear. And the issues at stake in the Air Canada pilot situation seem to have become confused, even in the minds of some of its on frontline workers. This dispute isnt about the rights of labour. Unions have an important place in society, and can [...]
Posted March 16, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
There are all kinds of insurance products out there and there are new products in the pipeline. An example: crop insurance. A Fremont Tribune article, Insurance a bigger factor in planting picture, discusses the importance of farmers maintaining both crop and revenue assurance policies, so that they can deal with any catastrophes –natural or economic [...]
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Posted March 15, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
According to a recently published article, Jeff Gelles, told the tale of the kind that can cause great consternation to many people. It told the story of a Mr. Bill Losse, a retired corrections officer from the state of New Jersey, about a telephone call he received from a company that was offering him a [...]
Posted March 4, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
My husband and I have debt. A lot of debt. The majority of it is from student loan debt my husband accrued obtaining his Ph.D. I have a small amount of student loan debt left, and we have some consumer debt as a result of simple overspending and not having much income last year. We [...]
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Posted February 24, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips
The story of BelAir Networks is instructive on so many levels. We take pride in the outcome given our 2007-era $5.5 million financing, of course, but as with every good exit in our world, CEO Bernard Herscovich and his management team, the BelAir staff and VCs deserve all of the credit. But the BelAir story [...]
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Posted February 17, 2012 by Imogen Lay under Credit Report Tips