Canadian Capitalist

The following question is from Andre:
In your blog, you mentioned buying VEA ETF. I thought Canadians could not buy Vanguard funds. How do you buy Vanguard ETFs?
It is true that Canadians cannot normally buy the low-cost index mutual funds available directly through Vanguard. Fortunately for us, we can easily buy Vanguard ETFs such as their [...]

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A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT is an asset class that allows you to get exposure to real estate in your portfolio. Real estate is an interesting asset class because historically it has offered a higher return than bonds (but less than equities) albeit at a higher risk (again less risk than equities). Also, [...]

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MarketWatch.com is reporting that Vanguard has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a new ETF that will seek to track the MSCI EAFE Index. Pending approval the ETF will be available in the third quarter of 2007.
Unlike the flood of ETFs that are being introduced all the time, the new ETF will be [...]

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I have to admit that I hadn’t researched investing in bonds in any depth before but some of the books I’ve been reading lately have a great deal of information on bonds. Unlike individual bonds, bond funds, which hold a collection of bonds, do not have a maturity date and hence the bond principal is [...]

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Stocks listed in emerging markets such as South Korea, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India and China have a place in your portfolio because of their higher risk / reward profile and lower correlations to developed markets equities (though markets are becoming more correlated). The MSCI Emerging Markets index tracks the performance of equities listed [...]

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The MSCI EAFE index tracks equities in developed economies of Europe, Australia and the Far East (hence the EAFE acronym) and is the simplest way for Canadians to get exposure to markets in Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland and Australia etc.
Two ETFs, both from iShares, are available to capture the performance of the index: [...]

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Canadians wanting to get exposure to the US stock market through an ETF have a range of options. They could choose to invest in the well-known S&P 500 index, which is composed of 500 of the largest-capitalization stocks listed in the US. A better option is to track a total market index, which includes almost [...]

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