Where Canadian investors meet for financial education and empowerment
The home page of Shakespeare’s Primer has this Preface: This Primer has not been updated for several years, as my current writing efforts are focused on finiki, the Canadian financial wiki. Some of the articles of which I am the principle author and which can be thought of as supplementing or replacing articles in this Primer … Read more
Our wiki, finiki, the Canadian financial wiki is celebrating its 14th “birthday’ on February 14, 2023. As part of the celebrations we are pleased to announce several important changes and improvements have been made. A new look and feel The wiki’s Main Page look and feel has remained unchanged since it last refreshed in 2012. … Read more
Welcome to the newly refreshed Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF) homepage and blog. It was time for a make-over. We have chosen a new, cleaner and crisper looking WordPress theme, GeneratePress, which by the way is developed and maintained by a fellow Canadian. The refreshed header is a nod to our discussion forum, where most of … Read more
One of the founders of the Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF), known as Bylo Selhi, has had on his website, www.bylo.org, although no longer being, um, actively managed … contains general information that remains valid . www.bylo.org Continuing our mission of financial education and empowerment and to ensure that valuable websites/resources don’t disappear from the interwebs … … Read more
One of the founders of the Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF), known as Shakespeare, made an announcement at the beginning of November about The End of Shakespeare’s Primer. We are pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Management team that FWF has agreed to take over hosting of the materials. So this isn’t “The … Read more
We have reached another milestone. Fifteen years have passed since the original FWF gang of four, Bylo Selhi, Norbert Schlenker, Shakespeare and yielder launched this discussion forum. We are still going strong, offering financial education and a place to discuss financial issues for Canadians and Canadian investors . We expect to continue for a long … Read more
It was a decade ago that our wiki, aka finiki, was launched with this forum post on FWF Welcome to finiki – The Do-It-Yourself Financial Webring Wiki. As this forum has grown larger and more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to find authoritative information. There has been some consolidation of similar type threads into single threads but … Read more
The Bogleheads® affiliated blog has posted an Interview with Norbert Schlenker: The Financial Wisdom Forum. Here is an excerpt: Financial Page : Can you tell us about the mission of the Financial Wisdom Forum? Norbert Schlenker: Compared to other countries, Canada isn’t a very friendly country for public market investors. The financial markets are an oligopoly, dominated by … Read more
Our forum just reached it’s 13th birthday today and the wiki turned 9 a few days ago. Our community continues on its mission to educate Canadian investors in a totally independent and non-commercial manner. For anyone new to the site, you can read about the History of FWF for more details on how the site came into existence and how … Read more
FWF has been upgraded to the phpBB 3.2 feature release. There are new features in that we’re excited to share with the FWF user community. This starter guide will introduce some of these features. Clever quotes The most obvious change is a significant improvement in the quoting feature, nicknamed “clever quotes”. Quoted posts now show links to … Read more