I recently offered a 7-ETF model portfolio for retirement. It’s a common question “How do I use ETFs to fund my retirement?” Here’s The Simple 7 ETF Portfolio For Canadian Retirees. And the good news is that simplicity and simple asset allocation has worked wonders for North American retirees. We don’t have to get too […]
BMO Keeps It Simple With Their One Ticket Portfolio Solutions.
This week we witnessed another entry into the Canadian Asset Allocation One Ticket Portfolio Solutions. Welcome BMO. On Friday February 15th BMO launched 3 asset allocation portfolios by way of the Conservative ZCON, the Balanced ZBAL and the Growth ZGRO. Here is the overview from the Fact Sheets. Wonderfully simple or plain vanilla? Take your […]
The Vanguard asset allocation portfolios.
In February 2018 Vanguard Canada launched all-in-one complete Balanced Portfolios that you can purchase by entering one ticker symbol. For example, in your discount brokerage account you would enter the symbol VBAL to get a complete, globally diversified Balanced Portfolio. The Portfolio is 60% Canadian, US and International stocks with 40% of those shock absorbers […]
Canadian Robo Advisors – BMO SmartFolio.
The next robo offering that we’ll look at is also offered by a major Canadian bank – SmartFolio from BMO’s brokerage arm BMO Nesbitt Burns. SmartFolio’s portfolios were designed by and are supervised by BMO Global Asset Management. BMO Global Asset Management is an industry leader with over $300 Billion of assets under management. At […]