While the TFSA accounts are very popular that does not mean that they are being embraced or used to the fullest. This week Rob Carrick of the Globe and Mail penned TFSA’s have been a disappointment in getting Canadians to save more. Rob references a recent study published in the Canadian Tax Journal that looked […]
Checking in on investment returns in 2019.
As we may remember 2018 was a robust year for markets until Santa turned grumpy in December. There was no Santa Claus rally, and in fact Santa took back the market gifts of 2018. We were left with the proverbial lump of coal under the tree. Canadian, US and International stock markets ended negative for […]
Will retiring baby boomers destroy the stock markets?
It’s a fear or suggestion that we hear repeated quite often. The massive cohort of retiring baby boomers will need to sell their stocks to create income and that will crash the stock markets. Or let’s just say it could cause a slow bleed, taking down or suppressing the stock markets over the coming decades. […]
Cut The Crap Investing – One Year Later.
Yes it was June of 2018 when I left the job that I truly enjoyed at Tangerine Investments and moved to my new life-work stage. You can call it semi-retirement or freelance writing and blogging. The main distinction is that that I work for myself and no longer have to drive to ‘the office’ in […]
Is this the only truly passive portfolio that you can create with ETFs?
This week I was in Montreal for the Inside ETFs Canada conference. It was a wonderful experience. I had the opportunity to meet so many folks who are readers and followers and supporters and generally ‘internet friends’. It was so nice to be able to meet, in person, so many leaders who drive the industry […]
Over 30 years as an investor taught me that nobody knows nothing.
Great, eh? You spend a few decades on a subject and land on the conclusion that you don’t need to know anything about said subject. Of course the subject in question is investing and building wealth. So did I waste my 10,000 hours? Absolutely not. While The Comedy Network offered the lovely tag line of […]