The stock markets have had quite the run to say the least. And we have not even had a 5% correction since the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. I’m exaggerating, it’s only been a few hundred days since we’ve had a 5% or more U.S. stock market correction. Perhaps the next real market […]
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 […]
Introducing the Tangerine Global ETF Portfolios.
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 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 […]
The performance of the ETF model portfolios.
Today we’ll check in on the performance of the ETF model portfolios. 2020 has delivered the first modern day pandemic. The economy and the stock markets took a hit. US stock markets fell by 34% into March, Canadian markets fell by 37%, while International developed markets fell by 29%. All ‘drops’ are calculated by way […]
Do you have enough tech in your portfolio?
And perhaps that headline could read – do you have enough growth in your portfolio? Of course tech is where they keep much of the growth these days. And certainly those tech companies have been driving the returns of the S&P 500 and other US stock index funds. For investors who create their own stock […]