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If you’re a new investor building a portfolio for the first time, you’d do well to look into exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Providing you with built-in diversification, (spreading your eggs across more than one basket), they help you to reduce risk in your portfolio. Mathem...

Are you a new investor? If you are, you might be very excited about buying “hot stocks” like Tesla, NVIDIA , or Palantir . These stocks have cult followings and are among the first ones new investors run to when they open their brokerage accounts. Unfortunately...

So, you’ve opened a brokerage account, funded your TFSA / RRSP , and are ready to begin investing in the Canadian stock market. If you’re looking at a long page of tickers, you might start feeling confused. Which stocks are buys? Which ones are less risky? How do y...

Canada’s inflation rate is at its highest level in decades. In the most recent quarter, the consumer price index (CPI) rose 7.7% — the most since 1983. Many Canadians are understandably concerned. The inflation rate is way ahead of wage growth this year, and many can’t ...

Are you considering investing in the stock market but are concerned about the risk? If so, there’s a relatively straightforward solution: index funds. Index funds are pooled investment funds that invest in the entire stock market, rather than any one stock. They have been proven ...

In my opinion, new investors interested in picking their own stock portfolios should stick to a “core/satellite” approach to practice good risk management. This entails the following: Investing 90% in a low-cost exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks a major stock ma...

Are you new to investing? If so, you’ve stumbled into the game at just the right time. Stocks are down this year, and history shows that the best time to buy stocks is when they’re down. The lower the price you buy in at, the greater your ultimate return. There are som...

Welcome to a series where I break down and compare some of the most popular exchange-traded funds (ETFs) available to Canadian investors! Canadian investors taking a passive approach to buying domestic stocks generally default to the tried-and-true S&P/TSX , but there is...

Many investors believe that beating the market is what investing is all about, but it’s the wrong perspective. For most long-term investors, it’s quite easy to build wealth over time by simply following and matching the market. There are several ways to do it. You can buil...

The RRSP is the cornerstone of most Canadians’ retirement plans. Although its popularity has been waning in recent years, the RRSP still has the most retirement funds sitting in it out of all Canadian retirement accounts. According to a 2013 CBC story, there were $772 billion in ...