The real estate sector has been battered by the pandemic. Retail and Office REITs have been particularly hard hit as social distancing and health and safety-related concerns have resulted in seismic shifts in work from home and online shopping. And it’s possible that the shift in how we work and how we shop is permanent. […]
Building the Canadian stock portfolio on Weekend Reads.
In my opinion the Canadian stock market and the Canadian economy present a unique opportunity. We can build the Canadian stock portfolio by focusing on a few key sectors. Canada is home to many wide moat or oligopoly sectors that includes the Canadian banks, telcos, railways, grocers, pipelines and utilities. For Million Dollar Journey, here’s […]
The ETF portfolio for retirees. How you doing?
We’ll check in on the ETF portfolio for retirees. We know that a simple balanced portfolio would have held up quite well over the last year. What does that mean for the retiree that creates a simple ETF portfolio to fund retirement? We’ll have a look at the 7-ETF portfolio for retirees on Cut The […]
For monthly retirement income, you might look to the BMO monthly income ETF.
Vanguard recently ‘disrupted’ the land of retirement funding and one ticket ETFs. They released a one ticket retirement income ETF – ticker VRIF. The new release created quite a stir. It was a hit with bloggers and the greater financial press. Many Cut The Crap Investing readers were more than interested after I posted a […]
Canadian ETF and Canadian Mutual Fund update.
The battle continues. Are Canadians getting the message? There is no competition for the returns history of low cost ETFs vs Canadian mutual funds. As you know if you’ve ever come across this site, Canadians pay some of the investment highest fees in the world. Those fees are a wealth destroyer as Larry Bates points […]
The Vanguard VRIF asset allocation ETF.
Yup. The RIF in the Vanguard retirement portfolio ETF ticker stands for Retirement Income Fund. It’s a newer retirement one ticket portfolio – ticker VRIF. Launched in 2020, it’s a diversified fund of funds designed to deliver a consistent 4% income stream. The one ticket asset allocation portfolios are certainly game changers. Will VRIF change […]