Vanguard’s Dividend, REIT and S&P 500 ETFs are great news for ETF Investors
Vanguard Canada appears to have been listening to ETF investors. The fund company known for its low-cost, plain vanilla index products will shortly be adding five new ETFs to its existing line up of...
View ArticleVanguard US ETF Benchmarks are Changing
Vanguard’s US-listed ETFs such as Vanguard Total Stock Market Index ETF (VTI), Vanguard MSCI EAFE ETF (VEA) and Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) are popular among Canadian index investors...
View ArticleImpact of Benchmark Change on Vanguard MSCI EAFE ETF (VEA)
Recently, Vanguard announced that it will be switching the benchmark index for many of its Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF). In an earlier post, we took a closer look at what the benchmark change means for...
View ArticleQ&A with Vanguard Canada
It is now more than one year since Vanguard came to Canada by launching its first set of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). Last week, I had a chance to chat with Atul Tiwari Chief of Vanguard Canada. I...
View ArticleThe 2012 Sleepy Portfolio Report Card
Background I started the Sleepy Portfolio in 2005 to benchmark my personal portfolio, which at that time was mostly invested in individual stocks. The portfolio started off with an initial outlay of...
View ArticleA look at the Performance of the BMO Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (ZWB)
BMO launched its Covered Call Canadian Banks ETF (TSX: ZWB) in January 2011. The ETF immediately started attracting investor attraction. Investors were mesmerized by the initial annualized yield of 10%...
View ArticleBudget 2013 clamps down on Advantaged ETFs
Advantaged ETFs refers to exchange-traded products that use derivatives such as forward agreements to transform one form of distributions (often interest income) into another (such as capital gains or...
View ArticleNew Currency Unhedged ETFs from iShares
ETF investors have long clamoured for Currency unhedged funds traded on the TSX for reasons outlined here, here and here. While it is true that Canadian investors can get direct access to foreign...
View ArticleMaking a low cost portfolio even cheaper
The Sleepy Portfolio was designed to be an ultra low-cost portfolio and the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) used in the portfolio were the cheapest available at that time. As you can see in the following...
View ArticleWhy ETF Distributions Fluctuate
Investors often wonder why Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) distributions fluctuate even when the securities held by the fund and the distributions of the holdings change very little. To better understand...
View ArticleExchange-Traded Funds – Canadian ETF Newsletter
Exchange-TradedFunds.ca Exchange-Traded Funds – ETF’s Canadian Exchange-Traded Funds – Exchange Traded Funds Canada The Canadian mutual fund industry is worth over 1.1 trillion dollars and is a...
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