As Larry Bates reminds us with regularity, fees are wealth destroyers. Canadians pay some of the highest fees in the developed world. One money sucking tentacle is the DSC or deferred service charge. The mutual fund company pays the dealership an up-front fee of 5%. That is shared with the salesperson. For selling out of […]
ETF investors add monies in March. Mutual Fund investors run for the hills.
Yes it’s a tale of two investors. Many now say that ‘The Smart Money’ is the retail investor. More so, it might be the retail investor that is smart enough to find their way to Exchange Traded Funds. That investor will be more aware and better prepared for investment risk. That savvy investor is more […]
Those nasty Deferred Sales Charge mutual funds are going away, but not fast enough.
The CSA recently put in place a ban on Deferred Sales Charge mutual funds. Ontario decided to not go along with the plan. The regulatory environment can be more than complicated. Given that, I asked investor advocate Ken Kivenko to provide a concise update on the Deferred Service Charge ban in Canada and Ontario. Take […]
A look at Tangerine Portfolio performance.
Yes, it’s that time of year when we see performance updates. We are are also bombarded with mostly useless ‘picks’ and projections for the future. That’s also known as guesswork. All we know is the past. And ironically, almost all investment decisions are based on the past and present. Yes, we can learn from the […]
Canada’s largest mutual fund, the RBC Select Balanced Portfolio is ‘not so bad’.
OK, before you hit that unfollow button I am not suggesting that Canada’s largest mutual fund is great. That said, even with the high fees the returns have been solid. Many Canadians have been able to build considerable wealth in some of Canada’s largest mutual funds. Let’s start with a look at the RBC Select […]
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 […]