Podcast 2: Planning vs. Investing
The second episode of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast is now available: Our new episode features financial planner Sandi Martin, who will be well-known to readers of Canadian financial blogs: she ha [...]
The second episode of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast is now available: Our new episode features financial planner Sandi Martin, who will be well-known to readers of Canadian financial blogs: she ha [...]
Imagine you’re part of a group of 10 friends at a restaurant to celebrate the holidays. Everyone else arrives on time and enjoys cocktails, appetizers and a main course, while you get stuck in traffic [...]
Welcome to the debut episode of the Canadian Couch Potato podcast. Every two weeks I’ll be releasing a new episode of the podcast and announcing it here on the blog. You can stream the most recent epi [...]
Q: I noticed the unit price of some iShares ETFs changed radically last week. For example, the iShares MSCI Singapore ETF (EWS) shot up from around $10 to $20 overnight on November 7. Another fund wen [...]
The Tangerine Investment Funds have long been part of my model portfolios, as they’re a simple way to build a broadly diversified index portfolio with a single product. With a management expense ratio [...]
This is Part 10 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. In this final installment, we review what we’ve learned and consider the pitfalls of embracing smar [...]
This is Part 9 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. In this installment, we look at how you can tell whether smart beta indexes will really perform as e [...]
This is Part 8 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. So far we’ve looked at ETFs that target specific factors. In this installment, we look at funds that [...]
This is Part 7 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. In this installment, we look at the quality factor: the idea that companies with strong balance shee [...]
This is Part 6 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. In this installment, we look at the low volatility anomaly: the surprising idea that stocks with low [...]