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A New Service for Do-It-Yourself Investors
In the June issue of MoneySense, I wrote a feature that profiled three Canadian families who wanted to overhaul their investments and start fresh with [...]
How Will Rising Rates Affect Bonds?
Since the 2008–09 financial crisis caused bond yields to plunge to new lows, market forecasters have been predicting a rise in interest rates. And whe [...]
An Overview of Commission-Free ETFs
Three discount brokerages in Canada now offer a menu of commission-free ETFs. Scotia iTrade pioneered this feature in Canada last September, then Qtra [...]
What Are Normal Stock Market Returns?
How often in the last few years have investors said they’re staying out of the equity markets because of the volatility we’ve experienced recently? Ma [...]
Can You Have Too Much Diversification?
Is it possible for a portfolio to be too diversified? There are certainly a lot of articles making that claim. Investopedia even has one called The Da [...]
Vanguard Canada Gets a Six-Month Checkup
It's now been a year since Vanguard set up shop in Canada, and just over six months since their ETFs began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. This [...]
A Homemade Principal-Protected Note
Given the widespread fear among investors today, it’s not surprising that financial institutions offer a staggering number of structured products that [...]
Why Plans Should Come Before Products
When I wrote the MoneySense Guide to the Perfect Portfolio [now out of print], I waited until Chapter 5 before I started discussing specific ETFs and [...]
Carl Richards on Performance Chasing
A couple of posts ago, I asked why everyone isn’t beating the market when there are a dozen or more strategies that promise long-term outperformance. [...]
Inside the DFA Global Balanced Fund
Long-time readers will know that I’ve written before about Dimensional Fund Advisors, an innovative investment firm that builds low-cost, widely diver [...]
