What Moneyball Can Teach You About Investing
I can’t seem to get my kids interested in index investing, but they do share my love of baseball. So...
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Why Staying the Course Isn’t “Doing Nothing”
On Tuesday I linked to a poll of some 200 institutional investors who were asked about their outlook for...
So Much For the Consensus View
The Canadian stock market officially crossed into bear market territory this week, falling to more than 20% below its...
When Should You Use an Advisor?
Dan Solin’s excellent new book, The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own (see my review here) devotes several chapters to whether...
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Review: The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own
There comes a time in every Couch Potato’s life when he or she has to answer a nagging question:...
Ask the Spud: RBC’s Target Maturity ETFs
Q: I just read about the launch of RBC’s family of target-maturity corporate bond ETFs. They seem like they would...
Balancing Your Dividend Holdings
One problem with the two leading Canadian dividend ETFs is that they are not very well diversified across sectors....
Claymore’s New Dividend Grower
This week saw the launch of the Claymore S&P US Dividend Growers (CUD), an ETF that will have great...
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Commission-Free ETFs Arrive in Canada
It seems like every week we hear high-profile announcements about new ETFs, very few of which promise anything genuinely...