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ShareOwner: Canada’s First ETF Robo-Advisor
Back in February I wrote about the rise of robo-advisors, the online services that allow you to build an ETF portfolio that’s maintained by a computer [...]
How to Estimate Stock and Bond Returns
Even the simplest financial plan requires assumptions about how your investments will perform. We know these assumptions can never be perfectly accura [...]
Ask the Spud: How Are Investors Protected?
Q: My father lost a large sum of money when the company holding his investments in his home country defrauded its clients. As a result, I worry whethe [...]
How One Investor Found Inner Peace
Most people who embrace index investing are attracted to the low fees and the proven performance compared with a majority of active strategies. But an [...]
Ask the Spud: Why Do ETF Yields Differ?
Q: The Vanguard S&P 500 (VFV) currently has a dividend yield of 1.44%, but the US-listed version of the same ETF has a yield of 2.01%. How can the [...]
Vanguard Goes Global With New ETFs
[Note: This blog post was updated several hours after it was published, as new information became available.] The Vanguard Total International Stock E [...]
A Tax-Friendly Bond ETF on the Horizon
Bonds should be part of just about every portfolio, but if you have to hold them in a non-registered account the tax consequences can be onerous. Fort [...]
What Young Investors Need to Know
When I first became interested in indexing, someone recommended William Bernstein’s The Four Pillars of Investing. Originally published in 2002, the b [...]
The High Cost of High Dividends
In our recent white paper, Asset Location for Taxable Investors, Justin Bender and I argue that investors may be better off keeping their bonds in an [...]
Inside the RBC Quant Dividend Leaders ETFs
In January, RBC launched the Quant Dividend Leaders ETFs, a family of dividend-focused funds covering the Canadian, U.S. and international markets. I [...]
