This just in; big juicy Canadian dividends beat the market . That was the finding revealed in this Norman Rothery article in the Globe and Mail. I am sorry dividend deniers, it’s not good news. Big Canadian Dividend payers beat the market by some 3.8%, on average per year. From that Globe article … And […]
You might not need a financial planner.
Recently I posted on the wonderful option of obtaining your financial advice a la carte. Yup. Just pay for what you need. You do not have to fork over a percentage of your total portfolio value every year. And in fact, you might not even need to fork over a single nickel for planning advice, […]
What is advice-only financial planning?
All investors can benefit from financial advice. Quite simply there is ‘stuff’ that we don’t know. And you don’t know what you don’t know. But there are professionals who do know. There are various types and levels of advice. In this post we will top line what is advice-only financial planning? It can also be […]
Is Tangerine a Robo Advisor?
If you use Google to search for the top Canadian Robo Advisors you will not find Tangerine in the search findings. When you read the top Robo Advisor reviews, you will not find mention of Tangerine Investments. Is Google wrong? Are the Canadian personal finance writers getting it wrong? Is Tangerine a Robo Advisor? Now […]
Canadian ETFs set to top that $200 billion mark.
At the end of October 2019 Canadian ETF assets stood at $192 billion. With the recent and very robust markets it might be safe to say that assets have ‘crashed through’ that $200,000,000,000 mark. Yes, I like to write that number including all of the zeroes. That’s a lot of zeroes. That equals a lot […]
Living off of the dividends and that 4% rule.
Dividends are so popular. That’s an understatement. Government agencies have forced that upon us. We live in a low yield environment. Bonds come up way short in the task of delivering safer income for retirees. Naturally, investors turn to dividends. Can we live off of the dividend income? The yield on iShares Core Universe Bond […]