The Beat The TSX Portfolio has a long history of beating the TSX Composite, but it can be a rocky road. The approach usually brings greater volatility. The strategy is dead simple. BTSX will simply hold the top ten yielding stocks from the TSX 60. It will change the constituents (holdings) on the first trading […]
Creating monthly income with BMO’s Canadian asset allocation ETFs.
The Canadian asset allocation ETFs changed the investment landscape in Canada. In a single ETF you can own a well-diversifed managed global portfolio with fees in the area of 0.20%. This is a wonderful (life-changing) upgrade over high-fee Canadian mutual funds. Canadians pay some of the highest investment fees in the world. High fees are […]
Building the Canadian blue chip stock portfolio.
The good news is that it is easy to build a very good Canadian blue chip stock portfolio. In fact if you buy enough of ’em and exhibit very good behaviour (buy and hold and add) you will likely beat the TSX Composite over time. Well, if history repeats you’ll thrash the TSX. You can […]
A look at our U.S. stock portfolio on the Sunday Reads.
Back in early 2015 I created a U.S. stock portfolio for my wife and me. It’s a real public portfolio available on Seeking Alpha. I have done several updates on Cut The Crap Investing, as well. The strategy was to create a stock portfolio with a quality skew. I skimmed the Dividend Achievers Index that […]
Canadian oil and gas investing, utilities and pipelines. Plus, the Sunday Reads.
It is so Canadian to enjoy a healthy dividend. Investing in oil and gas stocks is also as Canadian as needing to wear a toque in October or stopping at Timmie’s before heading off on a road trip. We have a resource-based economy and many investors have learned to embrace our dominant sectors. And of […]
Schwab’s SCHD, the defensive Canadian ETF portfolio, and gold shines on the Sunday Reads.
Schwab’s SCHD is a popular U.S. dividend ETF that has been disappointing investors for a long time. Does that disappointment mean that the fund is going to shine when (if) the AI bubble bursts? And speaking of shining, we’ll take a look at gold. Can it go even higher? Plus, Canada’s most defensive sector ETF […]