In this interview, David Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber talks to The Globe and Mail’s Rob Carrick on how expenses and emotions play havoc with investor portfolios.
- Rob Carrick urges investors to pay more attention to covered call ETFs than just their high distributions.
- Jason Zweig writes in The Wall Street Journal that various investment promoters tout their stock-picking prowess by not counting dividends in benchmark returns. Another favourite trick is to compare performance with a completely different benchmark.
- Vanguard announced this week that it is setting up shop in Canada. Jim Yih gathered all the reactions to the announcement in this handy post.
- It appears that Vanguard’s initial focus will be on the advisor channel. Preet Banerjee speculates on what Vanguard might do by looking at what the mutual fund company did when it launced in the UK
- Million Dollar Journey weighs in on Canadian Money Forum discussion on the fine balance between saving money for tomorrow and spending money today.
- Money Smarts Blog has an useful tip for parents on sharing a younger child’s RESP with an older sibling.
- Michael James hopes to inject some clarity into discussions surrounding active and passive investing by defining what these terms mean in the first place.
- “It was this big!”. Just like anglers, investors tell tall tales by exaggerating their wins and keeping quiet about their losses says the Blunt Bean Counter.
- Kevin Press of Today’s Economy Blog featured an interview on active and passive investing with George Klar. On one hand, Mr. Klar says that picking a winning manager is very very hard. And on the other hand, he says investors who believe active investing will perform better should use active management.
- Boomer and Echo explains why he loves shopping at Costco.
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