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Investment Club Meeting on March 18, 2025 (Webinar)

Ellen's Investment Club  (Toronto Central Investment Share Club) Guest Speaker: Ales Eisner March 18, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M By videoconference We have a guest speaker, a self-taught investor, to kick off the meeting at 7 pm. Ales Eisner is an early retiree, having left his IT job at age 48. He keeps busy with leisure pursuits and writing about investing at his website, https://canadianmoneytalk.ca , as well as acting as a mentor for people who need money advice. He’s not a certified financial planner, so he charges a reasonable fee of $50 an hour to work with them. My background is in IT. I achieved financial independence in my early 40’s, and stopped working in IT at 46. I have a net worth of over six million Canadian dollars, and live off the proceeds of my portfolio more than comfortably. I would like to help you achieve the same time freedom and financial independence that I have. You can find him doing videos on social media at https://canadianmoneytalk.ca/contact , (YouT...

Investment Club Meeting on January 21, 2025 (Webinar)

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Guest Speaker Session Insurance for Investors: Growing and Safeguarding Your Wealth January 21, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M By videoconference In our next  meeting, we will talk about insurance. Please don’t yawn. The insurance  industry  has been dominating the news lately, because  of extreme weather episodes that have destroyed all the homes in residential communities, such as  Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. In Ontario, insurers are facing challenges from auto thieves who steal cars from homeowners’ garages and driveways. Criminals don’t need keys to break into vehicles. Instead, they buy devices to communicate by electronic signals with the car owner’s wireless key fob. There’s also an increase in violent carjackings, where armed robbers attack drivers and passengers to gain control of the car and drive it away before the police give chase.  Some motorists use tracking devices to follow their cars down to the waterfront where thieves are putting the vehicl...