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 returns for the ETF Portfolios – outlier edition.
I recently looked at the returns for the core ETF Portfolios on Cut The Crap Investing. It was more than a solid year with annual returns in the range of 9.8% to 11.0% for 2020. It was another great year for simple couch potato investing. Simple and cheap worked. Today we’ll look at the returns […]
We’re going crypto crazy on Weekend Reads.
The price of bitcoin is going crazy. There’s just no other way to describe it. On Friday it was knocking off $1,000 US price barriers by the hour. In one stretch of 16 hours from Friday into Saturday the price of bitcoin increased by over 12%. To put that into context, have a look at […]
Returns for the Cut The Crap Investing ETF Portfolios.
It was an incredible year. We experienced the first modern day pandemic and the stock markets delivered very impressive returns. Of course those market returns were fueled by record stimulus from central banks around the world. Governments pitched in with more than generous support programs for workers and businesses. In the end, we saw generous […]
A look at Tangerine portfolio performance for 2020.
Tangerine is the leading online bank in Canada. With Tangerine you can get most everything you want or need out of a core banking experience, and you can do so by paying no fees. That’s right – zero fees. That is a a great option compared compared to forking over $20, $30 or more per […]
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, […]