- Remember the time our choice of exchange-traded funds was limited to about 10 and they were more than enough for 95% of our investing needs? Not any more. We now have close to 10 ETF vendors and about 200 ETFs! And now RBC has decided to jump into the ETF fray with a clutch of corporate bonds ETFs.
- Investors are very worried about the impact rising bond yields will have on bond ETFs. Dan Hallet explains how even in very negative scenarios holding bonds over its average term will preserve capital because of interest payments. The key lesson here: an expectation of increasing bond yields should not be the reason to avoid bonds.
- You can find some pretty dodgy advice on the Internet. Canadian Financial Stuff takes to task an advice given to young people to build up debt because they can pay it off over a long time.
- The Blunt Bean Counter stresses the importance of tracking household expenses. I totally agree and as someone who has done this for more than a decade now, I agree that the effort involved is minimal.
- Once you start tracking your expenses, Squawk Fox shows how to figure out your personal savings rate.
- Jim Yih pulls a J.P. Morgan on us when asked if real estate prices will keep going up or crash down.
- Preet Banerjee argued that many home renos are huge expenses that are justified as investments.
- Michael James humorously suggests that if homes were leased like cars, the carrying costs can be so much less than regular mortgages. One hopes that Wall Street isn’t already building a product around this idea.
- Money Highway featured a guest post on Money S*** My Dad Says.
- If you are curious about metrics used to value stocks, Million Dollar Journey explains certain key stock ratios.
I’m unable to highlight all the articles worth checking out in my weekly round up but you can check them out through my Twitter feed. Have a great weekend everyone!
