Apparently the markets were quite volatile this week, and the headlines were screaming out those warnings to investors. I wasn’t really paying much attention to the markets but I did hear from a couple of readers and certainly a few headlines and Twitter posts offered that the markets were throwing another hissy fit. Headlines and […]
iShares Adds Three One Ticket Asset Allocation Portfolios.
The momentum continues for the game-changing One Ticket Asset Allocation Portfolios. Yesterday we saw three new funds introduced by iShares and an actively managed fund from CI Investments. iShares likes to refer to them as multi-asset ETF solutions. From Pat Chiefalo, the head of iShares Canada. “We know investing can be complicated, but it doesn’t […]
Real advisors will not be intimidated by those wonderful Questrade commercials.
You’ve likely seen those Questrade TV commercials. They shine a light on the high fees that Canadians pay for their investments . The campaign shows several break up scenarios where investors are saying goodbye to their advisor and the accompanying high fees. It was nice to see this article and headline in the Globe and […]
Vanguard Asset Allocation Portfolios Attract $1 Billion in 2019.
As we had suggested in the MoneySense Best ETFs for 2019, the One Ticket Asset Allocation ETFs are a game changer. An investor can enter 4 letters and purchase a well diversified and re-balanced portfolio at the risk level of choice. There’s really no reason to hold high fee mutual funds. You can access a […]
Cashing in with our Tangerine Credit Card.
It’s certainly more important to get the big things right in the wealth building process. We get rid of our high interest debt, we get our spending under control so that we can save and invest and we invest on a regular basis in a low-fee manner. You might have a read of my personal […]
Weekend Reads: What investors do wrong edition.
Let’s face it we all make mistakes. We’ve made them in the past and we’ll likely make them in the future. We’re human. On Seeking Alpha in of 2013 I bragged that I would never make another investment mistake. I probably made a few in the last several years, but most of minor concern. My […]