Yup. The RIF in the Vanguard retirement portfolio ETF ticker stands for Retirement Income Fund. It’s a new retirement one ticket portfolio – VRIF. It’s a diversified fund of funds designed to deliver a consistent 4% income stream. The one ticket asset allocation portfolios are certainly game changers. Will VRIF change the game for the […]
Horizons asset allocation ETFs for better asset allocation.
Yes that is an ironic headline. While many of the asset allocation or one ticket ETFs are quite similar, Horizons asset allocation ETFs stand out. For starters as you may know, the ETFs used within these portfolios are held within a corporate structure that do not pay out taxable distributions. They primarily use swap-based ETFs […]
The TD One-Click Portfolios.
TD Asset Management joins the asset allocation ETF game with the TD one-click portfolios. Welcome to the team. These portfolios are a wonderful addition to the TD ETF line up. As many of us in the investment blogosphere have suggested, the asset allocation ETF portfolios are game changers. As a background for those who are […]
Canadian ETF sales double mutual fund sales on Weekend Reads.
We’re winning some of the battles in some months. July saw Canadian ETF sales double up on mutual funds sales. Canadian ETF assets hit a new record at $230.6 billion. ETF assets are up 25% year over year. But of course we still trail mutual fund assets that now stand at $1.64 trillion. Are we […]
Checking in on the Tangerine Portfolio returns, plus the Weekend Reads.
It has been a while since we checked in on the Tangerine Portfolio returns. They are simple but wonderful index-based mutual funds. The funds invest in large cap Canadian stocks, US stocks and International stocks. They manage the risks by replicating a core Canadian bond index. The portfolios offer a very decent benchmark for those […]
What’s in the Big Bear Portfolio?
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 […]