Canadian blue chip stocks beat the market. OK, they crush the market historically. That’s good news for Canadian investors who build their own stock portfolio. We just have to buy enough of ’em and get out of our own way. Of course, we’ll need to invest within our risk tolerance level and diversify geographically. Exchange […]
Managing risk in the age of uncertainty.
OK, the headline could be accused of being an oxymoron. The future is always uncertain. This age is just like the last age, and the age before that. There’s always “stuff” to be worried about. That said, you can’t blame Canadians, Mexicans, Panamanians and Greenlanders for thinking that 2025 brings a certain level of risk […]
Selling VDY to build a Canadian stock portfolio on the Sunday Reads.
In my wife’s Canadian RRSP account (personal) she held the Vanguard Canadian High Dividend ETF – ticker VDY. It certainly was not held for the big dividends but for the potential of those big dividend sectors to provide some total return outperformance vs the TSX Composite. Held from early 2013, VDY beat the TSX (XIC.TO) […]
How much do you need to invest to become a millionaire?
There was a time when becoming a millionaire was a big deal. That meant that you were “rich”. These days, becoming a millionaire might be commonplace for an investor with modest or reasonable free cash flow to invest. Most of us should become “rich”. But of course, a million dollars ain’t what it used to […]
The S&P 500 cracks 5000 on the Sunday Reads.
The S&P 500, also known as the U.S. stock market broke and held 5000 this week. That’s a new all-time high for the most watched (and most invested) stock market index. The most popular version of the index is cap-weighted, meaning the largest stocks by valuation get the greatest weight in the index. The active […]
Our Canadian and U.S stock portfolios. Plus the Sunday Reads.
I am back on Seeking Alpha with a look at our U.S. (for my wife and me) stock portfolios. Like most we underperformed the market in 2023. As we know the cap-weighted U.S. market was dominated by the Magnificent 7. Though we had a very solid year. Our longer term beat over the market is […]