Investment Principal #3: Using Passive/Index Funds or ETFs
Index-based or passive asset class funds focus on how to reduce the costs and frictions involved in capturing the market’s generous expected returns over time.
Investment Principal #2: Diversify Your Asset Classes
The magic behind diversification is found in a financial measure known as correlation, or the degree to which two asset classes move in similar patterns.
Investment Principal #1: Invest in Asset Classes
Evidence suggests your portfolio’s asset class mix has a much larger impact on its variation of returns, compared to stock-picking and/or market-timing techniques.
Solutions for the Canadian Housing Crisis
What are the factors affecting Canada’s housing crisis? How do we start to tackle this housing crisis issue? Public policy professional, Steve Lafleur, joins us to discuss these questions.
From Indexing to Evidence-Based Investing
To appreciate evidence-based investing, it helps to look at its historical roots, planted more than a half-century ago, and incorporated into its early solutions: index and passive asset-class investment strategies.