Franklin Templeton: Why Diversify. nice little brochure explaining why and how you should diversify a portfolio.

ING DIRECT Canada: Tax-Free Savings Account - Top 10 Things to Know. ING is out early on the TFSA.

Unbundling the iShares CDN REIT Index Fund (XRE). how it might be cheaper for you to own separate stocks than an ETF with only a few stocks.

Roger Lowenstein on Moody’s and the failure of credit agencies in the credit crunch.. Lowenstein is the author of When Genius Failed. via amr.

Volatile TSX still beat investment pros. They did even worse than last year. another reason for buying index funds.

Tax Implications of Foreign Dividend Investing. stuff to know for canadian investors.

Why acting bearish is a dumb move. “Yet there is still a bull market raging in one commodity on Wall Street: utter nonsense”. Jason Zweig is a pretty solid financial writer.

And It All Comes Down to This… - WSJ.com. 20-year veteran of the WSJ sums up investing in his last article.

The Odds for a Retirement Nest Egg, Recalculated - New York Times. very interesting article about a recent paper which throws the idea of reducing equity exposure as you get older on it’s head. i definitely want to read the whole thing.

Top 25 Stocks of Past 25 Years - AOL Money & Finance. some surprising ones in there.

Venture Hacks Tweets: Kleiner edition “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few.” – Warren Buffett, explaining bad investments

The Finance Buff: RSU Sell To Cover Deconstructed. restricted stock units seem to confuse everyone every tax season. here’s a good run-down (in the US).

Op-Chart: Making Money Hand Over Fist - The New York Times. a guide to the hand signals of trading on the NY Mercantile.

Business guru Lenny Dykstra (kottke.org). There’s a great segment in Moneyball about how Dykstra’s ignorance of his own failures made him such a great ballplayer. Check out the except here.

Emerging Markets: Is It Time to Cash In? - India Knowledge@Wharton. some interesting data but no reason to sell if you’re looking long term.

Capitalism without bankruptcy, it is said, is like Christianity without hell.
- The Economist

The Finance Buff: China’s Stock Market Bubble Burst Fast “A Chinese bank became the most valuable bank in the world. A Chinese life insurance company became the second most valuable life insurance company in the world. A Chinese oil company became the most valuable company in the world.” that definitely sounds like a bubble.

reportonbusiness.com: REITs can offer solid foundation. some things to look for in REITs.

Jim Rogers on CNBC talking about fed bailouts and inflation rates. “I don’t want more regulation. If XYZ needs to go bankrupt, let them go bankrupt. you’ll have lots of self regulation after that”

Bear Stearns’ Cautionary Tale “yet again a reminder for the rest of us not to tie up too much of our savings in our employer’s stock.”