Tangerine has launched three ETF Portfolios. With management fees of .65% the Tangerine ETF Portfolios will compete with the Robo Advisors that also use ETFs. As readers may know, I was an investment advisor with Tangerine Investments for over 5 years, from 2013 and into 2018. I had long suggested (begged) that they find a […]
The performance of the one ticket ETFs for 2020, plus the Weekend Reads.
The one ticket ETF portfolios are game changers in Canada. You can get a more comprehensive and ‘complete’ portfolio by way of entering one ticker symbol. The fees are incredibly low, in the area of .20%. Yes, that’s about one-tenth of the cost of a traditional mutual fund in Canada. Of course most Canadians should […]
The 2020 year in review.
It was the year of the first modern pandemic. Will it be the decade of the pandemic, or pandemics? Or will 2021 put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear view mirror? Well, we’ll be writing that story in a year from now. What we do know is that the pandemic dominated the year in every […]
Checking in on Vanguard’s VRIF on Weekend Reads.
In September of 2020, Vanguard’s VRIF ETF was launched. The ETF is an all-in-one retirement funding solution. It is designed to pay out 4% of the portfolio value in 12 monthly distributions. That level of income is set at the end of each calendar year, based on the year end value. If the Santa Claus […]
Too much success with Apple stock, on Weekend Reads.
Unfortunately I am not talking about my own Apple stock holding. I’ve done very well with Apple, initiating a position in 2014, and adding a few times soon after. I then trimmed a few times creating homemade Apple dividends to help fund trips to PEI, starting in 2018. But my Apple holding pales in comparison […]
RioCan cut its dividend by 33%. What’s next for the REIT sector?
What a difference a pandemic makes. And what a difference a few months can make in the REIT sector. Just a few short months ago RioCan CEO Ed Sonshine promised that the distribution was rock solid. But on Friday of this week RioCan cut its dividend by some 33%. In May of 2020 Mr. Sonshine […]