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It’s more than a year since I tidied up the Sleepy Portfolio and with the recent turmoil in the stock markets, the allocations have begun to significantly diverge from their targets. The portfolio’s holdings in cash and bonds are now...
In response to the first post on the series on finding a financial advisor, Thicken My Wallet posed an interesting question – why would anyone want to search for potential financial advisors off the internet?
Ten years back Nortel looked invincible. Today, it is in bankruptcy protection and its business units are being sold off piece by piece. The Ottawa Citizen’s James Bagnall is writing an eight-part series on the fall of an once-proud telecommunications...
For the fourth year running, Qtrade finished first in the Globe and Mail’s ranking of online discount brokers. Credential Direct, BMO InvestorLine, Scotia iTrade and RBC Direct Investing round out the top five. TD Waterhouse missed a spot in the top...
Note: Today’s post takes a look at the the performance of the top 10 Canadian mutual funds (by assets) of 2004 over the next five years. The results simply confirm yesterday’s conclusions about the performance of top 10 global equity funds over the...
It turns out Mackenzie Financial has been “fighting back” against index funds for years. Check out this column titled “Exploding fund myths” in the Financial Post dated August 10, 2004. It features two tables listing the top-10 funds in the Global...
Mackenzie Financial’s marketing brochure “I thought I wanted an ETF” purports to clear up some of the assertions surrounding Exchange-Traded Funds but instead turns out to be an easily-ridiculed piece of propaganda. The brochure clarifies the following...
