Welcome to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com – a personal finance weblog (or blog for short). If you are new to the world of blogs, let me explain what a blog is: it is an interactive website that is part soap-box, part journal. I write a new article or post about 5 times per week. Sometimes the articles will be instructional, how-to articles, and sometimes they will be just my own wacky commentary or philosophical musings. Many people decide to “subscribe” to the blog (more on that later), and as of right now there are almost 500 daily readers and about 10,000 unique visits per month.

Who Reads This Blog?

People who are brand new to investing, sophisticated Do-It-Yourself investors, financial journalists and seasoned financial advisors regularly read this blog. I try to mix-up the difficulty of content so you can feel free to skip over the posts that are too easy/too hard for you and just read the ones you like in detail. There’s no law that says you have to read every word I write. Some posts will explain what the basic terms of a mortgage are, or how to create a monthly budget whereas others will deal with off-shore tax planning strategies or even reverse dispersion equity collar strategies.

It’s Interactive…

You can sit back and just soak up the new articles on a regular basis or you can join in on the discussion and respond or provide feedback by leaving a comment on any article you choose. Feel free to criticize, question or commend me or any other contributors to the site on anything you read. (Of course, we just ask that you be polite and courteous when doing so!) In order to leave a comment, just scroll down to the end of the article in question, and it is pretty self-explanatory from there. If you are new and have never commented before, feel free to leave a comment anytime, even if it is just to say “hi”. EVERYONE is welcome!

Lots of Contests!

In 2008, I have committed to giving away a Money Movie (which is a movie which has money as a central theme) every two months. For example, up for grabs this year are Casino, Wallstreet, Trading Places, Ocean’s Eleven (The 1960’s original), Boiler Room and Glengarry Glen Ross. All you have to do to enter the contests is leave a comment saying whatever you want on the designated contest posts (can’t miss ‘em!). I have also given away a Digital Camera and numerous books such as The Richest Man in Babylon, KPMG’s Tax Planning For You And Your Family 2008, The Intelligent Investor and more. In other words, you should stick around and make sure to enter the contests because your odds are actually pretty good with an average of maybe 50 people entering each contest.

Subscription Options (They’re all free!)

1. You can bookmark this website (that’s so five years ago…)

2. You can subscribe to free e-mail updates which are delivered every day that there is new content available (which means you can expect an average of about 4-6 emails per week. The articles are short, and remember not everyone reads each one, so feel free to scan the headline and first few lines and decide if you want to read that day’s post. (You can also unsubscribe very easily at the click of your mouse.)

3. If you are familiar with RSS (Really Simple Syndication) you can subscribe to the RSS feed. RSS feeds are somewhat new to the internet, but are widely used on almost all major websites now. What they do is allow you to collect the various feeds from your favourite website and have them all show up on one easy to scan page in your “feed reader”. This way, you don’t have to scan through all your bookmarks one by one which is very time consuming. Rather, all the fresh info from ALL your favourite sites show up on one easy to read page which you can scan and then click on the items of interest. BIG time saver.

Who Am I?

My name is Preet and I am a former Financial Advisor in Toronto. This blog is a product of passion and is intended to empower and educate all who want to learn more about personal finance in a fun, easy-going manner. It’s not my intention to garner new business for my practice through this blog, however some readers do contact me for professional help if they feel they need the help of an advisor and many readers who are self-sufficient have referred their friends (who may have no interest in managing things themselves). That is fine, and I welcome it, but you are free to read without feeling like you owe me anything at all.

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