The Canadian energy sector has been beaten up. Foreign investors have given up and so have many Canadian investors. Where there is incredible pessimism there can be incredible rewards. But there is certainly no guarantee that the pessimism for the Canadian energy patch is not deserved. That said, it is also certainly possible that the […]
Thanksgiving weekend reads.
Yes, it might feel like a challenge to give thanks these days. We’re in the midst of a pandemic that brings fresh rounds of fear and uncertainty each week. Cases of COVID-19 are surging in many parts of Canada, the US and around the Globe. Yes we are in that second wave of the pandemic. […]
The ETF portfolio for retirees. How you doing?
We’ll check in on the ETF portfolio for retirees. We know that a simple balanced portfolio would have held up quite well over the last year. What does that mean for the retiree that creates a simple ETF portfolio to fund retirement? We’ll have a look at the 7-ETF portfolio for retirees on Cut The […]
Sunday reads. What a week it was.
OK, whoever is writing this stuff (the script for the world in which we live) is doing a bang up job. The twists and turns, the use of irony and dramatic foreshadowing, the list of characters and the character assassinations. So many literary devices on display. Hollywood screenwriters could not to a better job. In […]
How does the global pandemic end? With a cold.
In From Killer to Common Cold Dr. David Graham takes an investigative approach to track down this new serial killer. Of course the killer in question is SARS-coV-2, the villain in the first modern-day pandemic. The virus leads to the sickness known as COVID-19. Dr. Graham suggests that within 2 to 5 years SARS-coV-2 will […]
For monthly retirement income, you might look to the BMO monthly income ETF.
Vanguard recently ‘disrupted’ the land of retirement funding and one ticket ETFs. They released a one ticket retirement income ETF – ticker VRIF. The new release created quite a stir. It was a hit with bloggers and the greater financial press. Many Cut The Crap Investing readers were more than interested after I posted a […]