The Canadian banks reported quarterly earnings this week, and as the Go-Go’s sang “we got the beat”. The banks were beating on earnings and revenues in every which way. A beat means that they surpassed the expectations of the earnings analysts who price the stocks. So perhaps it is not that the banks beat, but […]
The returns for the ETF Portfolios – outlier edition.
I recently looked at the returns for the core ETF Portfolios on Cut The Crap Investing. It was more than a solid year with annual returns in the range of 9.8% to 11.0% for 2020. It was another great year for simple couch potato investing. Simple and cheap worked. Today we’ll look at the returns […]
We’re going crypto crazy on Weekend Reads.
The price of bitcoin is going crazy. There’s just no other way to describe it. On Friday it was knocking off $1,000 US price barriers by the hour. In one stretch of 16 hours from Friday into Saturday the price of bitcoin increased by over 12%. To put that into context, have a look at […]
Building the simple stock portfolio.
The shift to self-directed investing is a tidal wave. The pandemic accelerated many trends that were already well under way. In the stay at home and work from home reality of 2020, more Canadians moved their investments online. And so many more Canadians took control of those investments. The rate of new account sign ups […]
Returns for the Cut The Crap Investing ETF Portfolios.
It was an incredible year. We experienced the first modern day pandemic and the stock markets delivered very impressive returns. Of course those market returns were fueled by record stimulus from central banks around the world. Governments pitched in with more than generous support programs for workers and businesses. In the end, we saw generous […]
Was the F.I.R.E. movement doused by the pandemic?
F.I.R.E is an acronym for Financial Independence Retire Early. It is a very popular movement that gets a lot of attention in the blogosphere and on social media. The idea is to eat excess amounts of ramen noodles, squeeze your budget until it squeals, save 90% of your income, invest like crazy in an all-stock […]