These two Canadian ETFs track Canada’s best-established indexes and provide low-fee exposure to widely traded blue chip stocks.
When you invest in ETFs, simpler is generally better. And each of these two Canadian ETFs provides a straightforward approach to investing in a selection of Canada’s top… Read More

Finding out what old stock certificates are actually worth can be disappointing to say the least. Here is some stock market advice to make sure you never hold a worthless stock certificate.
One of our Inner Circle members asked for stock market advice about a stock… Read More

In an uncertain world and changing markets, investors who want to own gold and silver stocks may find these precious metals ETFs the best choice.
Precious metals like gold and silver stocks dropped, along with stock markets, in March 2020 as the pandemic forced a global… Read More

These two blue chip ETFs hold mostly large-capitalization, widely traded stocks on the Canadian exchange. Both funds mirror, or track, the performance of major stock market indexes as opposed to narrower ones focused on resources or themes, such as solar power or biotech.
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Canadian index mutual funds were among the better financial innovations to come along in the past few decades. Still the popularity of ETFs may soon eclipse them
Canadian index mutual funds are specialized mutual funds that aim to equal the performance of a Canadian market index,… Read More

7 suggestions on how to tell if a stock pays a solid dividend, and if it will continue to do so
We believe investors will profit most, and do so with the least risk, by buying shares of well-established, dividend-paying stocks with strong business prospects. That… Read More

RRSP meltdown strategies promise to ease your tax burden on withdrawals, but these complicated manoeuvres are usually more lucrative for brokers than for investors
Investors sometimes ask us what we think of the so-called RRSP meltdown. This strategy, a favourite of some wealth advisors, would let… Read More

Investing in REITs (Canada) can help you minimize the risk of owning investment property
REITs (Canada) are the one remaining large category of income trusts; as such, they continue to pay distributions before they pay tax—and that’s good for unitholders of RioCan REIT and others. The… Read More

Corporate-class mutual funds let you switch between funds without having to pay capital gains taxes right away. But there are reasons why regular mutual funds, as well as ETFs, make better investments
Corporate class, or “tax-advantaged,” mutual funds are classes of funds that let you switch… Read More

Don’t miss these three key steps to identifying TSX value stocks—those low in price relative to their high potential
Some investors only feel safe buying stocks after prices have risen, which means that they often overlook TSX value stocks (penny stocks). Yet this is the opposite… Read More