When the Canadian asset allocation ETFs were introduced several years ago, the investment community hailed them as “game changers”. That is, the final nail in the coffin for high-fee / low-performance Canadian mutual funds. The asset allocation ETFs are well-diversifed, managed global portfolios available at 5 risk levels. The fees represent about a 90% off […]
Economists exist to make astrologists look good, on the Sunday Reads.
Warren Buffett (the world’s greatest investor) once exclaimed that ‘if your company has an economist on the payroll it has one too many employees’. And of course you can look to the headline of this post for another telling description of the use of economics in making investment decisions. We can put any ‘market guesser’ […]
Canadian banks’ mixed bag of earnings on the Sunday Reads.
It’s the Stanley Cup playoffs for Canadian investors. It was Canadian bank earnings week. The Canadian banks have been on a terrific run, playing catch up after underperforming the TSX Composite in 2022 and 2023. It was a mixed bag of returns this past week. Mostly, team Green (TD Bank) was in the red, while […]
We’re selling shares to create retirement income on the Sunday Reads.
You gotta sell shares to not sell yourself short. Oh, the irony. This week I published a very popular (and unpopular) post on Seeking Alpha. The post showed how a retiree could greatly increase their income by selling shares of the popular ETF – Schwab’s SCHD. A retiree might boost the spend rate by 30% […]
The wonderful asset allocation ETFs on the Sunday Reads.
You enter one ticker symbol, you press buy and instantly you own the stock markets around the world. U.S. markets, Canadian, European, plus the stock markets of the far east and Australasia, plus those of emerging markets. You own a global portfolio with diversification that is hard to beat. The global portfolio is then managed […]
Investing in Canadian banks on the Sunday Reads
For Canadian investors there’s nothing more interesting or perhaps important than the banking sector. The Canadian banks have historically crushed the Canadian and U.S. stock markets. It is likely the best performing large cap sub sector in North American stock market history. Of course, past performance does not guarantee future returns. When investing in the […]