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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...

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Vanguard 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...

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Impact 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...

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Q&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...

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The 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...

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A 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%...

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Budget 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...

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New 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...

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Making 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...

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Why 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...

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Exchange-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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