Thanks to high-fee mutual funds, Canadians are leaving a lot of money on the table. While superior ETF investment options have been available for more than two decades, Canadians are slow to help themselves out. Those fees are wealth destroyers. We’re not making the move to ETFs at the pace of the rest of the […]
When should you rebalance your portfolio? And lessons from the Tangerine portfolios.
How often should you rebalance your portfolio? There’s good news on that front as less is more. We’ll take a look at a very telling chart from Frederick Vettese. And I take another look at the very telling perfomance table for the core Tangerine Portfolios. In this post I will also take you through my […]
The waiting is the hardest part, and the most profitable times for investors.
Investors are starting to notice that their portfolios have been treading water for a couple of years. Over the last two years, a global balanced growth portfolio would essentially be flat. Of course, move out to 3 year, 5 year and 10 year time horizons and we have very solid to generous returns. At times […]
What’s up with balanced portfolios in 2022?
What’s up with balanced portfolios in 2022? Well, they’re down, that’s what’s “up”. Yes stock and bonds can fall together. Bonds don’t appreciate a rising rate environment. Remember, as bond yields increase bond prices fall. They are inversely correlated. A 5-year bond yielding 1.0% is not as attractive as a recently-released 5-year bond paying 2%. […]
Finding dividend growth tech stocks, on the Sunday Reads.
In early 2015 I sold our U.S. Dividend Achievers index ETF and bought (skimmed) 15 of the largest cap holdings. The goal of investment strategy is greater portfolio stability with the potential of outperformance. The index insists on at least 10 years of dividend growth, it also applies financial health screens. The index ETF (ticker […]
The 2021 returns for ETF portfolios.
The year 2021 was the first full year of the pandemic. Most of us continue to be surprised that a pandemic turned out to be the best thing that could happen to stock markets. Of course, the stock market rally has been fueled by record amounts of fiscal stimulus (government support) and low interest rates. […]