Jumat, 28 Desember 2012

How to Assess Your 2012 Portfolio Performance

The end of 2012 is upon us so it is opportune to review how our own individual portfolio has performed over the past year. This forms a nece...
Jumat, 21 Desember 2012

Good Christmas Buys Amongst the Low EPS Dispersion Stocks

In last week's post we ranked large cap Canadian stocks according to the tightness of the spread of future analyst earnings forecasts. ...
Jumat, 14 Desember 2012

Using the "Wisdom of Crowds" of Analysts to Find Safe, Profitable Canadian Stocks

James Surowiecki's best selling book The Wisdom of Crowds explains how combining the opinions groups of people can produce better decis...
Jumat, 07 Desember 2012

Mortgage/Debt-Adjusted Asset Allocation

Last week, we discussed how to figure out the effect of taxes in arriving at a true picture of asset allocation. This week we look at how a...
Jumat, 30 November 2012

Tax-Adjusted Asset Allocation

Spreading investment assets across different types of assets in order to diversify and reduce risk is a fundamental investing best-practice,...
Jumat, 23 November 2012

How to Sharpe-n Your ETF Selection Process

Reward vs risk, that is a universal, pervasive, constant and critical trade-off and comparison that we must make as investors. There is plen...
Jumat, 16 November 2012

Best Pick Commodity ETFs/ETNs for the Canadian Long Term Investor

Our original post in 2009 on investing in commodities outlined the diversification and inflation protection arguments as well as the risks....
Jumat, 09 November 2012

Green Certification of Real Estate - Why investors should care

Investors with a particular interest in environmental sustainability, or those who just want to maximize their chances of picking money-maki...
Jumat, 02 November 2012

Socially Responsible Stocks – Which ones are the solid money makers?

Last week we looked at the performance of ETFs holding a basket of stocks that meet the criteria of being Socially Responsible (SRI). The tr...
Jumat, 26 Oktober 2012

Socially Responsible Investing: Trends and ETF Track Records

When we first explored back in 2009 the idea of vetting investments based on ethical criteria, the ETFs created to implement the idea were ...
Jumat, 19 Oktober 2012

Pros and Cons of Managed Futures ETFs

What's not to like about an investment that delivers returns like the dark blue in the chart below taken from Frequently Asked Questions...