If you use Google to search for the top Canadian Robo Advisors you will not find Tangerine in the search findings. When you read the top Robo Advisor reviews, you will not find mention of Tangerine Investments. Is Google wrong? Are the Canadian personal finance writers getting it wrong? Is Tangerine a Robo Advisor? Now […]
Canadian ETFs set to top that $200 billion mark.
At the end of October 2019 Canadian ETF assets stood at $192 billion. With the recent and very robust markets it might be safe to say that assets have ‘crashed through’ that $200,000,000,000 mark. Yes, I like to write that number including all of the zeroes. That’s a lot of zeroes. That equals a lot […]
The Canadian Dividend Aristocrats on Weekend Reads.
This week I penned on the US Dividend Aristocrats. That’s a group of S&P 500 constituents that have increased their dividends every year for 25 years (or more). In Canada, we’re not so picky, the Canadian Aristocrats are companies that have increased their dividends for 5 years or more. For a backgrounder on these Canadian […]
The Dividend Aristocrats in Canada and the US.
The Dividend Aristocrats may form the bedrock of dividend growth investing in the US. Many investors trust the divining rod of a meaningful dividend growth history. It takes an incredibly successful company to make its way into the venerable S&P 500 index. For a company to then be able to increase its dividend every year […]
A look at the BMO Low Volatility ETF and mutual fund.
In 2019 BMO introduced a mutual fund option for their Canadian low volatility index. That ‘s thanks to the popularity of the BMO Low Volatility ETF – ticker ZLB. That fund has an incredible history of beating ‘the market’ and also delivering much better risk-adjusted returns. Think of it as winning by losing less. While […]
Say goodbye to your Canadian home bias.
Investors around the globe are known to invest with a home bias. That is, due to familiarity investors allocate too much to their home country. Canadians will typically hold more Canadian equities compared to US or International equities. Meanwhile Canada represents only 3% of the global economy. And OK, I’ll lead off with my personal […]