CDZ, a Canadian dividend ETF, yield is about 4% at this time. It has better performance than most of Canadian dividend mutual funds, due to its low MER. good historic performance when being compared with cdn index
XDV, a Canadian dividend ETF, yield is about 4% at this time. Hower, it looks to be less diversified than CDZ. It has 50% exposure in finance sector at one point.
CUD, a US dividend ETF, better for being hold in registered accounts such as RRSP, TFSA, RESP for reason of US dividend payment tax treatment in Canada
specialized Canadian/Global high dividend ETFs, for diversification
XFN, for Canadian finance sector, good historic performance when being compared with cdn index
XRE, for Canadian real-estate sector, P/E=14 yield is about 5% at this time
CGR for global real-estate sector, good historic performance, better for being hold in registered accounts for income tax treatment reason
Canadian TSX index ETFs: P/E is about 16, yield is about 2.8% on Aug 5, 2016
XIU, XIC. Holding index funds can save the effort for detailed fund selection with a return that can be better than the average of all mutual funds.
US S&P 500 index ETFs: P/E is about 18, yield is about 2% on Aug 5, 2016
XMA, if you have patience to buy when the market is down a lot, and at a historic low price. For example, you may bought this at $8.50 in early this year. Now it is about $15.00
4. cdz and tsx index price comparison (excluding dividend payment. currently CDZ dividend is about 4%, about 1% higher than TSX index ETFs XIU and XIC). The following diagram covered the 2008/2009 economic crisis with stock market melt down for about 50%drop. However, for long term investment, the investment on CDZ or XIU and XIC had a 10 year average return 4.92% to 6.38%, much higher than 2-3% inflation, much higher than GIC too.
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Turns out, the RBC vice-president was actually licensed as something called a "dealing representative" — a salesperson.
Deceptive employee titles: A recent report by the Small Investor Protection Association found there are 121,000 people registered as financial professionals in Canada, and the vast majority are registered as dealing representatives — salespeople licensed to sell financial investments.
Only about 4,000 of these registered financial professionals have a fiduciary duty, which is a legal obligation to act in the client's best interest.
"The game today is to earn clients' trust," said Larry Elford, a former certified investment manager with RBC and lead researcher of the SIPA report. "And never let them know that you are actually a commissioned salesperson and you don't have to honour that trust."
The stakes are high, says Elford, who points out that a two per cent management fee on mutual funds typically cuts an investor's retirement fund by about half over a 35-year period.
What's in a vowel?
A common trick for misleading customers, according to Elford, is the banking industry's use of the term "financial advisor" — spelled with an "o."
He says "advisor" is an unregulated title that anyone can use, whereas the title "adviser" — spelled with an "e" — can only be used if the employee has a fiduciary responsibility to the client.
"Advisors can sell you the third, fourth, fifth or least beneficial product to you," Elford said. "They do that a great deal of the time if it makes them more commissions, or if their bank manager is telling them they need to sell more of the house-brand product."
In an email to Go Public, the Canadian Securities Administrators confirmed that it does not regulate most titles used by employees in the financial industry.
TD financial advisor who recently quit: ' I had zero training and had to learn on the go.'
"Investors may want to forget the market crash and focus on an even worse threat — such as a cheap money bubble caused by repeated rate cuts.
Right now, central banks are pumping up that bubble. But if the coronavirus doesn’t burst the bubble, something else will. Either way, that bubble will burst. When it does, it will be a day of reckoning for investors everywhere. The current volatility, with its historic troughs and heroic peaks, could pale by comparison."
"A worldwide credit crunch triggered by the coronavirus will set in motion a wave of corporate bankruptcies that will make the global financial crisis look like “child’s play”, investors have warned. "
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"US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said unemployment could rise to 20% in America in what the ratings agency Moody’s said was an “unprecedented” shock to the system. S&P warned this week that these factors would lead to a “surge” in corporate bankruptcies. "
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"Angus Coote, of Jamieson Coote Bonds in Melbourne, said the crisis could soon explode the massive debt bubble inflated by years of low interest rates and cheap money. "
“$2tn worth of corporate debt is due to be rolled over this year but the market has completely frozen. The market is essentially closed. It’s a disaster.”
"Banks are also in jeopardy, according to David, and could soon require the kind of bailout packages that saved them in the GFC and which are now looking certain to be rolled out for airlines, carmakers and a whole range of other sectors. "
"The S&P 500 started February with a CAPE of 33, putting it roughly at the level of the 1929 pre-Depression top. The CAPE has only been significantly higher once in the entire history of the American stock market, and that was at the peak of the 1990s tech bubble.
The bloodletting we saw in February and March took a lot of the speculative froth out of the market and knocked the CAPE down to about 23. It’s since recovered to just shy of 26 as I write this.
A CAPE of 26 looks a lot better than a CAPE of 33. But it’s far from cheap.
To put it in context, the CAPE was sitting at roughly these levels at the 2007 top. The CAPE bottomed in 2009 at 13, literally half of today’s levels." Is the Stock Market Actually Cheap? Not According to the CAPE Ratio