Almost 10 years ago I packed in our U.S. ETFs and built a stock portfolio. It’s a public portfolio and it constitutes the bulk of our (for my wife and I) U.S. RRSP investments. Due to a spin off and merger the portfolio is now 20 stocks. The strategy was to build a portfolio that […]
Investing in Canadian banks on the Sunday Reads
For Canadian investors there’s nothing more interesting or perhaps important than the banking sector. The Canadian banks have historically crushed the Canadian and U.S. stock markets. It is likely the best performing large cap sub sector in North American stock market history. Of course, past performance does not guarantee future returns. When investing in the […]
Canadian banks, pipelines, gold and more on the Sunday Reads.
We’re in one of those weird (but good) stages when just about everything is working. Across the board stocks are delivering. Bonds are back, meaning the balanced portfolio is back, and at all-time highs. Gold is also setting new highs. In fact it’s all kind of ‘goldilocksy’ these days. Inflation is behaving as we prepare […]
A crazy week to forget on the Sunday Reads.
In last week’s Sunday Reads we looked at the projected rate cut path in Canada, and the recent stock market weakness. That weakness and jitters turned into a panic on Monday. But go figure, the stock markets then recovered nicely throughout the week. U.S. stocks ended up where they were a week ago. As I […]
Big tech stocks take a breather on the Sunday Reads.
Stock market analysts call it the stock market rotation. The market makers (mostly fund managers) are rotating out of expensive high-flying tech stocks and moving to companies and sectors that offer more attractive valuations. That is, buying more current earnings compared to paying up for future earnings. Canadian stocks and value stocks in the U.S […]
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) […]