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Stock markets were subdued in January as investors continued to ponder the implications of a Donald Trump presidency. Despite that, the S&P500 and TSX60 hit new all time highs in January. ETFs have been seeing broad adoption globally, but Canada has been lagging. Why?
This post is part of a series, where we ask some of Canada’s top personal finance bloggers to weigh in on topics that matter to Canadians. Click here for the full list of our favourite personal finance bloggers in Canada, or check out our curated Twitter list to follow them on Twitter. Over the past few months, they’ve told us what Millennials should be doing […]
January is a great time to pause and reflect on the previous year, take stock of lessons learned, and make a plan for the year to come. To help you in your reflecting and planning, we’ve rounded up our most popular personal finance blog posts of 2016. Best of 2016 – our most popular personal finance blog posts 1. […]
Stock markets finished 2016 on a positive note, with the S&P500 and TSX60 hitting all time highs in December. This time of the year, many prognosticators are bringing out their stock market forecasts for 2017. But given how far off the 2016 forecasts were, best to take them with a grain (or bucket) of salt!
This post is part of a series, where we ask some of Canada’s top personal finance bloggers to weigh in on topics that matter to Canadians. Click here for the full list of our favourite personal finance bloggers in Canada, or check out our curated Twitter list to follow them on Twitter. In November, we asked what Millennials should be doing to improve their […]
Custom Portfolios: Automation Meets Customization When it comes to investing, we truly believe that simple is better. And for most Canadians, a simple, well-diversified portfolio of low-cost ETFs is the best long-term investment strategy available. We started ModernAdvisor as a cost-effective way to build and rebalance those portfolios. And while our broad range of standard portfolios work well for most investors, […]
As we head into the holidays and the home stretch of 2016, now’s the perfect time to make sure you’ve covered your financial bases for year end. Here are our top tips for getting your financial house in order before the new year. Look at your capital losses. If you sold investments earlier in the year at a profit and don’t […]
On our website, anyone can submit a request for a portfolio review in which we look at the fees the client is paying and how well they are diversified. Most of the requests are from people that have a mutual fund account with a financial advisor at a bank or a mutual fund company. Bill Wong (not his real […]
