Canadian economist David Rosenberg is known as a perpetual bear. That framing is a little unkind. Let’s just say Mr. Rosenberg is always cautious and is more than aware of the many risks. But certainly he will dwell or concentrate on those risks. We might think that it is the job of the economist to […]
Dear Ontario Securities Commission: There’s no need for DSC mutual funds.
As Larry Bates reminds us with regularity, fees are wealth destroyers. Canadians pay some of the highest fees in the developed world. One money sucking tentacle is the DSC or deferred service charge. The mutual fund company pays the dealership an up-front fee of 5%. That is shared with the salesperson. For selling out of […]
The Canadian tech sector roars, on Weekend Reads.
The Canadian tech sector has been delivering stellar returns for Canadian investors. It’s certainly a shame that the sector is underrepresented in the main indices. That said, an investor can shade to tech by way of a sector ETF. For those who hold individual stocks, they can skim a few from the top holdings. And […]
Canada’s best performing dividend ETF. Horizons Canadian Dividend ETF – HAL.
This under-followed ETF might be the Rodney Dangerfield of dividend ETFs. It doesn’t get any respect. Yet Horizons Canadian Dividend ETF HAL is leading the pack of existing Canadian Dividend ETFs. What will be surprising to some is that the fund is actively managed. At the core of the fund is machine learning – AI […]
Is the stock market going to crash? On Weekend Reads.
It’s the million dollar question. Because you could make a million and more if you knew which way the stock market was heading. But as they say, predictions are hard to make – especially about the future. Is the stock market going to crash? We have no idea. But yet, it’s a common question according […]
Rebalancing your portfolio during violent stock market corrections.
In March we experienced the quickest 30% market correction in history. Of course stocks went on to fall more than that 30% figure. And during that period the bond markets also started to fail. We had swings of 7% or more on a daily basis, for both stock and bond ETFs. It was enough to […]