Canadian investors suffer from a ‘terrible’ home bias. That is we are waaaaaay overweight our Canadian stocks compared to US and other International stock markets. Well, so goes the theory. Canadian ETF investors are more ‘sensible’ and have a near equal allocation to Canadian and US markets with a more modest but meaningful allocation to […]
The beat the TSX portfolio skips a beat in 2023 and 2024, picks up the pace in 2025.
The beat the TSX portfolio (hypothetical ticker BTSX) has a wonderful longer term habit of beating the market. 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 day of each year, and it will continue to […]
My new favourite Canadian ETF. The CI Wisdom Tree Quality Dividend ETF.
Thanks to Rob Carrick for this ETF idea. Well actually it was putting two Globe Investor pieces together. In this case, one plus one equals the CI Wisdom Tree Quality Dividend ETF – ticker DGRC. It combines the qualities that I personally look for in an equity ETF. Make that a meaningful dividend growth history […]
A look at iShares High Dividend ETF, XEI. Built for the Great Recovery.
Spring is in the air (in some parts of Canada, and certainly in much of the US). Vaccines are going into arms. More lockdowns are being lifted. Jobs are being created well beyond expectations. Economic growth is ready to flourish. Planes are ready to take off. Hotels and resorts can’t wait to welcome you, almost […]
The Canadian dividend ETFs in 2021.
In this post we’ll look at the final tally for Canadian dividend ETFs in 2021. Of course, Canadian dividend ETFs had a rough go in 2020 during the first year of the first modern day pandemic. The dividend ETFs fell by more than market and while they began to fight back against the TSX Composite, […]
Sturdy Canadian dividend stocks on Weekend Reads.
Sturdy. I like that word. The Cambridge dictionary describes sturdy as – physically strong and solid or thick, and therefore unlikely to break or be hurt. That’s what I look for in the manner that I run our stock portfolios. I don’t like to be hurt. I will look for better risk adjusted returns by […]