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As we head into back to school season, our October 2025 Best Canadian Dividend Stocks list update reveals a pretty solid year-to-date performance for our…
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With GIC rates shrinking as quickly as Canada’s economic prospects, finding the best Canadian high interest savings account in 2025 is more important than ever.…
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What is Wealthsimple? Wealthsimple was founded back in 2014 by Michael Katchen, Brett Huneycutt and Rudy Adler. I gotta say that I really liked the…
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Is Questrade Safe & Secure? One of the most common questions that I have gotten in the comments below is: Is investing my money through…
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Current Qtrade New Customer Promotion Qtrade currently has the best cash-back offer on the market in an effort to get you to try their platform. …
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How to Create a Stock Watchlist with Google Spreadsheets
I brought this post out of the archives due to a number of recent emails about how to track stock holdings. I still use Google…
Easy Index Mutual Fund Portfolios with the Big Banks
Over the years while helping readers, friends, and co-workers with investing, I’ve come to the conclusion that convenience is of the highest priority, even if…
Top Canadian Preferred Share ETFs
Preferred shares are an odd asset class. They aren’t quite equities, and they aren’t quite bonds. They are similar to equities in that they pay…
How Regular and Synthetic Dividend Reinvestment Programs (DRIP) Work
The questions are still rolling in about investing small amounts per month, this time regarding the differences between a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP)/stock purchase plan…
Are You Too Focused on Risk Reduction Instead of Growth?
A few years ago, we held a client event that highlighted the difference between how different types of investors think. I had invited my favourite…
How to Read and Understand Business News
Do you ever read the business news and find yourself wondering exactly what you should or shouldn’t believe? Do you find yourself thinking there is…
Capital Gains Refund Mechanism – Why Mutual Fund and ETF Investors Potentially Pay Less Tax
When I see tax returns for do-it-yourself investors, I am often struck by how much tax they pay on their investments. Many high net worth…
Top Canadian Stock Screeners
When it comes to picking your own stocks it can be hard to sift through all of the data and opinions in order to make…
Why the Second Million is MUCH Easier
This is a guest post by Derek Foster, author of the popular book “Stop Working, Here’s How You Can!” Throughout my 20s I never had…
How to Calculate Annual Investment Returns Using XIRR
After my 2012 year end net worth update, there was some chatter about how to properly calculate annual investment returns. The fact is that there…
A Primer on BRIC
Typically, Canadian and US investors invest in their respective country’s stock market and seek diversification through the other country’s market. For further diversification, they might…
A Primer on American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)
American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) are securities of non-US corporations that trade in the US stock markets. Individual shares of such foreign securities represented by ADRs…
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) vs Dollar Value Averaging (DVA)
When investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or ETFs, the term “dollar cost averaging” is usually mentioned as the no-frills approach to investing. This post…
Why the Long Term Growth of the Economy is Not Relevant to Investing
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. – Laurence J. Peter Our last article…
Closet Indexers vs. Stock Pickers – Truly Active Managers Outperform
This is the final installment of Ed Rempel’s series on active investing. “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.” – Yogi Berra In the…
Truly Active Managers Outperform The Index – Being Different is Key
The popular opinion among investors supported by many studies claims that most fund managers underperform their index, so you are better off just investing in…
Six Common Myths about Stock Market Returns
We have found that most investors have quite exaggerated views about long term stock market returns, mainly believing they are much more erratic than they…
3 Principles of Successful Investors Part 2
This is a continuation of a 2 part series on the principles of successful investors. Here’s a quick recap of the first article. 1. Faith…
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