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Making Sense of Capital Gains Distributions
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 [...]
Ask the Spud: Reverse Share Splits in ETFs
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 $1 [...]
Tangerine Expands Its Lineup
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 [...]
Smart Beta ETFs: Summing it All Up
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 l [...]
Is Your Smart Beta Strategy Doing Its Job?
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 w [...]
Exploring Multi-Factor Models
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 f [...]
Understanding the Quality Factor
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 [...]
Understanding the Low Volatility Factor
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 [...]
Understanding the Momentum Factor
This is Part 5 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. In this installment, we look at the momentum facto [...]
Understanding the Size Factor
This is Part 4 in a series about smart beta ETFs. See below for links to other posts in the series. In this installment, we look at the size factor: t [...]
