The Best of Blogs – Personal Favorites

In my last post, I featured some of the most popular articles from 10 financial blog sites measured primarily through traffic. Although traffic is important and one way to evaluate a good article, traffic does not always equate to quality. In this post, I want to feature a list of the personal favorites from these same 10 financial blogging sites.

Articles on Debt

6 Remedies for a Debt Hangover by Balance Junkie
Poverty can happen to anyone by Todays Economy
The Basics Of The Smith Manoeuvre by CanadianFinanceBlog.com
Why You Shouldn’t Pay for your Lottery Ticket with your Credit Card by YoungandThrifty.ca
5 Reasons why people are not saving money by WealthWebGurus.com

Articles on Personal Finance

Your Life Balance Sheet by BalanceJunkie.com
Your Financial Hierarchy of Needs by Balance Junkie
Nine answers from Moshe Milevsky by Todays Economy
Would you recommend your financial adviser? by BeforeYouInvest.ca
Where To Find Other Sources Of Income by CanadianFinanceBlog.com
The Best Financial Websites for Canadians by BankNerd.ca
Dream Lifestyle thanks to fixed income by IntelligentSpeculator.net
Free Personal Finance Excel Spreadsheets by GreenPandaTreehouse
Best Personal Finance Ebooks From Bloggers by GreenPandaTreehouse.com
Cohabitation Agreements and Living Together Before Marriage- What you need to Know by YoungandThrifty.ca

Articles on RRSPs

TFSA vs. RRSP Duel: Who Wins? by Balance Junkie
The lesser known facts of RRSPs by WealthWebGurus.com
The proper use of RRSPs: The one formula approach by WealthWebGurus.com
The Great RRSP Debates by WealthWebGurus.com

Articles on Investing

5 Investing Challenges for the Next Decade by Balance Junkie
Passive Investing and the Ostrich Effect by Balance Junkie
Building a fixed income portfolio with ETF`s by IntelligentSpeculator.net
Investing Online: Do you know the rules? by BeforeYouInvest.ca
Investing Online II: Dick and Jane and insider trading by BeforeYouInvest.ca
Decline of the American empire by Todays Economy
Dividend Funds That Don’t Pay Dividends by CanadianFinanceBlog.com
Understanding contagion by Todays Economy
Buying domains/websites = buying cheap land/real estate by IntelligentSpeculator.net
Asset Allocation Basis Part 1: Know Your Asset Classes by GreenPandaTreehouse.com
Leveraging Dividends by Nurseb911.com
Fixed Income Alternatives by Nurseb911.com
Taking Stock in IGM (Part I) by Nurseb911.com

Articles on Retirement

Doug Treen and the psychology of retirement by Todays Economy
My approach to retirement (retirement vs the rest) by IntelligentSpeculator.net
The changing face of retirement by WealthWebGurus.com
Building a retirement vision by WealthWebGurus.com
Misconceptions of retirement
by WealthWebGurus.com
Retirement is about more than just money by WealthWebGurus.com

Articles on saving and shopping for Deals

How I Got $8 Glasses by CanadianFinanceBlog.com
How to Save Money on the BARF Diet for your Pet by Youngandthrifty.ca
Step By Step Guide on How to Save Money on your Cell Phone Contract by YoungandThrifty.ca
What’s your Latte Factor? by YoungandThrifty.ca
Principles of saving money by WealthWebGurus.com
Is savings nature or nurture by WealthWebGurus.com

Articles on Tax

Tax Refunds Are A Bad Thing by CanadianFinanceBlog.com
Marginal Tax vs Average Tax by WealthWebGurus.com
Time to do some tax planning by WealthWebGurus.com
Good tax planning is the foundation of Financial Decision Making by WealthWebGurus.com

Articles on Banking

Generation Y Banking by BankNerd.ca
ING Direct and Social Media by BankNerd.ca
Augmented Reality ATM Finder by BankNerd.ca

Articles on Fraud and Scams

Investment fraud on the Internet: Spoofed websites by BeforeYouInvest.ca
Beware of RRSP Fraud by BeforeYouInvest.ca
Splits & Scams: Divorce and your financial health by BeforeYouInvest.ca

I must admit putting together this round up of great articles from great bloggers was time consuming but a lot of fun. My plan is to continue the Best of Blog series. If you are a blogger and want to participate in future round ups, send me a tweet on twitter www.twitter.com/jimyih. I hope you enjoy the information.

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Written by Jim Yih

Jim Yih is a Fee Only Advisor, Best Selling Author, and Financial Speaker on wealth, retirement and personal finance. Currently, Jim specializes in putting Financial Education programs into the workplace. For more information you can follow him on Twitter @JimYih or visit his other websites Group Benefits Online and Advisor Think Box.

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