Canadian Blue Chips Dominate These Two Canadian ETFs

Canadian Blue Chips Dominate These Two Canadian ETFs

These two Canadian ETFs track Canada’s best-established indexes and provide low-fee exposure to widely traded blue chip stocks.
When you invest in ETFs, simpler is generally better. And each of these two Canadian ETFs provides a straightforward approach to investing in a selection of Canada’s top… Read More

What is Market Timing Theory?

What is Market Timing Theory?

Market timing theory attempts to interpret and detect buy and sell signals in trading patterns and history
What is market timing theory?
Market timing theory is an investment strategy based on the belief that investors can identify optimal times to enter or exit financial markets by predicting… Read More

New exchange-traded funds are flowing here

The Canadian ETF market experienced another strong month in September 2024, with $5.8 billion in new money flowing into Canadian-listed ETFs. That brought the total inflow for the first nine months of the year to $48.8 billion—62% higher than the same period in 2023.
The total… Read More

These funds are an alternative to holding cash

With today’s still-low interest rates, there are few, if any, high return, lower-risk fixed-income investments available to investors.
But if you must hold cash, and are looking for an alternative to bank savings accounts or holding it with your broker, these four ETFs can give you… Read More

How securities lending helps ETFs

Large ETFs can generate additional income by lending (or “renting”) shares held in the portfolio to counterparties. These counterparties are usually large financial institutions or dealer-brokers that allow clients to sell shares of a particular company short. The counterparty will be required to deposit collateral… Read More

It pays you to be wary of new ETF issues

This month we consider two new high-interest savings ETFs, which compete with money market funds. We also offer you a look at a hedge fund ETF from AGF.
In our August 2019 issue, we initially analyzed high rate savings ETFs from Purpose Investments. Since then, the… Read More