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Ask the Spud: Adding a New REIT to the Index

Loblaw recently announced it will be creating a new real estate investment trust (REIT). Once it goes public, how would it be added to existing real estate ETFs? And considering how large the proposed [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T22:30:30-05:00December 13th, 2012|Categories: Ask the Spud, Indexes|Tags: Ask the Spud, Indexes|23 Comments
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Inside the iShares Minimum Volatility ETFs

Last week we looked at two low-volatility ETF strategies based on beta and the standard deviation of daily price movements. Now let’s complete our roundup by looking at a third methodology used by MSC [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T23:19:54-05:00December 3rd, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes, New Products|Tags: Indexes, New Products|31 Comments
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Inside the BMO and PowerShares Low-Vol ETFs

In the last 14 months or so, Canada’s ETF providers have launched several funds based on low-volatility strategies. As we saw in my last post, the research suggests it may be possible to build a portf [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T23:20:00-05:00November 29th, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes, New Products|Tags: Indexes, New Products|15 Comments
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Barry Gordon on Building an Index: Part 2

In Monday’s post I shared part one of my interview with Barry Gordon, CEO of First Asset, who explained how his firm worked with Morningstar to create new ETF indexes. In part two the interview, Gordo [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2019-12-21T12:36:22-05:00October 18th, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes|Tags: Indexes|11 Comments
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Barry Gordon on Building an Index

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, all ETFs tracked well-known third-party indexes like the S&P 500. But it wasn’t long before all of the major benchmarks were spoken for and ETF providers bega [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2019-12-21T12:43:24-05:00October 15th, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes|Tags: Indexes|7 Comments
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Vanguard ETFs Get New Indexes

Vanguard has announced it is changing the benchmark indexes on four of its Canadian and 22 of its US ETFs, including some of its most popular funds. Over the next several months, Vanguard will be step [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T23:20:13-05:00October 4th, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes, New Products|Tags: Indexes, New Products|26 Comments
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More ETFs Close Their Doors

This month, two ETF providers in the US announced they were closing shop. First up was FocusShares (associated with the online brokerage Scottrade), who will shutter its entire roster of 15 ETFs. Then [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T22:31:07-05:00August 30th, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes|Tags: Indexes|9 Comments
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BMO Takes on the Big Boys

BMO has announced some interesting new changes to some of the ETFs—and one of them may lead to the first genuine price war in the Canadian marketplace. The company recently announced that the BMO Dow [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T23:20:25-05:00August 27th, 2012|Categories: ETFs, Indexes, New Products|Tags: Indexes, New Products|25 Comments
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Another Weak Criticism of Indexing

The investment industry has never been kind to index investing, but the criticisms are getting weaker and more desperate. An article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail gets off to a bad start by suggesting [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T22:31:20-05:00August 23rd, 2012|Categories: Indexes|Tags: Indexes|31 Comments
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Did Your ETF Just Get Riskier?

One of the problems with actively managed mutual funds is that you can never be sure that the risk level will remain constant. In an income fund with a mix of government bonds, high-yield corporate bo [...]

Canadian Couch Potato2017-12-02T22:31:36-05:00March 26th, 2012|Categories: Bonds, Dividends, ETFs, Indexes|Tags: Dividends, Indexes|20 Comments
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