This and That: Dog Days of Summer Edition

Out with toasters. In with cash, trinkets and baubles. Rob Carrick explained how banks are trying to attract new accounts.

A Tour of ETFs: Horizon AlphaPro Equal Weight 60 ETF (HEW)

Horizon’s AlphaPro and BetaPro ETF products have hitherto had little appeal to the long-term, buy-and-hold passive investor crowd. But, the introduction of the Horizon AlphaPro S&P/TSX 60 Equal Weight Index ETF (TSX: HEW) that tracks the S&P/TSX 60 Equal Weight Index (EWI) may change that. Unlike the more widely-known S&P/TSX 60 Index, which weights the [...]

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From the Archives: Surprise! Mutual fund cheerleaders fault indexing

Inane criticisms of indexing pop up regularly in the mainstream press. The arguments employed are varied and almost always turn out to be based on faulty logic. They also often make a virtue out of necessity as the column referred to in this post did.
Sometimes, the active versus passive debate is a bit like the [...]

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Useful Used Car Pricing Resources

There are only so many harsh Ottawa winters a car can take. A few months back, I took my 1992 Honda Accord to my mechanic [...]

This and That: Generic advice, debt worries and more…

This blog post on the New York Times website cautions against blindly following generic financial advice that you obtain from newspaper columns, television programmes and blog posts.
Worries about debt dominate the headlines these days. Money manager Leith Wheeler analyzes the four components of aggregate debt and finds the picture to be decidedly mixed.
Odlum Brown’s Murray [...]

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How Bill Miller’s star has fallen

Yesterday’s post looked at a somewhat self-serving suggestion from a money manager that investors would be better off hiring a professional to do their investing for them. One of the problems with such a suggestion is that you might end up with someone like Bill Miller. You don’t hear much about Mr. Miller these days [...]

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From the Archives: Why invest your own money?

[Editor's note: I wrote this post more than two years back in response to a Globe and Mail column questioning whether DIY investors have the skills to invest on their own. I still think almost anyone can learn to invest on their own. It is not always easy but it is definitely simple.]
In his latest [...]

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Summer 2010 Reading List

It’s been a hot few days here in Ottawa and with a break from work coming up, I’m looking forward to crossing off some of the books in my reading list. Chances are I won’t get around to reading even one since I just started The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the first book in [...]

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Sleepy Portfolio 2Q-2010 Report Card

[Note: I started the Sleepy Portfolio in 2005 to benchmark my personal portfolio, which was then invested mostly in individual stocks. The portfolio started off with an initial cash infusion of $100,000 but no new money has been added since. The portfolio has the following asset allocation: 5% cash, 15% short bonds, 5% real return [...]

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Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day Everyone!
Regular programming resumes on Monday. Have a great, extra-long, weekend!
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