Michael Prentice

I shopped around for out-of-country emergency medical insurance recently and saved more than  $700 on the cost of coverage for a six-week visit to the

The best piece of financial advice I ever received is this: don’t count on the government to enable you to live comfortably in retirement. And

Price fixing by retailers is a dastardly practice punishable by law. So why do we allow our national and provincial governments to get away with

Credit card issuers are waging a fierce war for our business, and consumers should be cashing in. But how? I have a suggestion: take the

Retailers complain vociferously about the high fees they must pay for accepting credit cards. So why don’t more of them offer a discount for customers

Two recent unpleasant experiences – one with a bank, the other with a credit card issuer – have taught me that financial institutions can sometimes

It’s an exasperating truth many consumers know all too well: the price you see on the tag or in the ad is very often not