Canadian/US Dollar and Investing

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Re: Canadian/US Dollar and Investing

@Existentialist

Probably so, but that doesn’t change the fact that I can’t force someone to give me the true price. They state the price, I can take it or leave it. Either way I lose. Wherever I went, the issue seemed to be the same.

Would you suggest investing in gold? It doesn’t strike me as wise. If I buy a brick of gold for x amount, I doubt I will ever sell it for more than x+y, never x times y. I have never actually received this advice. And it seems rather, err, superficial to put everything into gold. GOLD, for god’s sake.

Can people share their own experience? I though most people invested?

if you want to invest in a gold, you may want to go the route of a gold fund.

http://www.usfunds.com/funds/goldshares_doc.asp

realize that gold tends to be volatile though.

Now based on the fact \s that

you dont have a lot of time,
you dont want to go the stocks route,
real estate is bad in US,

people’s own experiences, may nto be relevant to what your needs/situations are.

I would say go for aggressive mutual funds some with international flavour. after all teh fund managers will ahve more time to focus on what stocks are in teh fund. thats what I am doing. aside from some stocks.

consequently, you can opt to invest in real estate in Canada, last time i checked it ws till doing pretty good, but have not looked into it myself.