It’s just a coincidence perhaps. But much of my blog and reads for the week research landed on that retirement theme. Everyone’s thinking of retiring or writing about retirement. And why not? That is a big end goal for most of us; some form of financial freedom. This Sunday Reads post offers a nice slice […]
Strong Canadian ETF flows and more thoughts from the week.
We saw very strong ETF flows for May. Canadian investors continue to add to a wide array of asset classes. There was continued strength in the one ticket asset allocation ETFs. And surprisingly to many, even though bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to take it on the chin, Canadians continue to move monies to this […]
Canadian retirees get a nice raise thanks to the Purpose Longevity Pension Fund.
It’s possible that the game has been changed for the better, for Canadian retirees. Purpose Investments launched a retirement funding mutual fund that is designed to deliver an annual payout at 6.15%. That is, the fund would pay out a minimum of 6.15% of your initial total fund value. For every $100,000 that you have […]
Finding purpose in retirement, on The Sunday Reads.
The theme of this week’s Sunday Reads is courtesy of The Maple Money podcast and Mark Seed of the My Own Advisor blog. In this episode of Maple Money podcast Mark offers his thoughts and framing on FIRE – financial independence and retire early. Mark prefers the more honest and representative (of reality) FIWOOT – […]
The Permanent Portfolio.
The traditional balanced portfolio is built for the current economic environment. It is built upon the premise, or guess, that we will remain in a disinflationary environment. It is all that today’s investor has known. In a disinflationary environment US and Canadian stocks and other developed markets perform well. US and Canadian bonds perform well. […]
The returns for the ETF Portfolios – outlier edition.
I recently looked at the returns for the core ETF Portfolios on Cut The Crap Investing. It was more than a solid year with annual returns in the range of 9.8% to 11.0% for 2020. It was another great year for simple couch potato investing. Simple and cheap worked. Today we’ll look at the returns […]