More and more, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are finding their way into the portfolios of investors.
That’s because, unlike many other financial innovations, they don’t load you up with heavy management fees, or tie you down with high redemption charges if you decide to get out of them… Read More

Split-share corporations come with inherent drawbacks that can hand investors unexpected and unwelcomed costs sooner than they’d planned
Split-share corporations: they’re just one of the areas in which Pat McKeough’s Inner Circle can get our investment research. Members also get to ask investment questions of Pat… Read More

Insurers like Manulife Financial and Sun Life Financial collect premiums from customers and invest those premiums to meet future claims. That need to cover claims means they invest significant amounts of their funds in fixed-income instruments, primarily bonds. That also means still-high interest rates are… Read More

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are set up to mirror the performance of a stock market index or subindex. They hold a more or less fixed selection of securities representing the holdings that go into calculating the index or sub-index.
Today, we look at two Canadian ETFs… Read More

Insurers like these Sun Life and Manulife, collect premiums from customers, and then invest those premiums to meet future claims. That need to cover claims means they invest significant amounts of their funds in fixed-income instruments, primarily bonds. That also means high interest rates are… Read More

Insurers like Sun Life and Manulife write policies, collect premiums from customers, and then invest those premiums to meet future claims. That need to cover claims means they invest significant amounts of their funds in fixed-income instruments, primarily bonds. That also means high interest rates… Read More

Domestic and international business remains strong for our two top Canadian insurance recommendations: Sun Life and Manulife, both of which have largely recovered from the March 2020 market fall and look poised to move higher.

Meanwhile, each firm offers a solid, sustainable dividend yield. We… Read More

Insurers write policies, collect premiums from customers, and then invest those premiums to meet future claims. They’re required to invest significant amounts of that money in fixed-income instruments, namely bonds. That means high interest rates are a boon to their returns. Sun life and Manulife… Read More

Domestic and international business remains strong for our two top Canadian insurance recommendations, both of which have largely recovered from the March 2020 market fall and look poised to move higher. 

Meanwhile, each firm offers a solid, sustainable dividend yield, and we expect recent acquisitions and… Read More