Sentences with phrase «canadian dollar returns»

Fluctuations in the exchange rate can clearly have an impact on your Canadian dollar returns.

Not exact matches

Investors who were underweight on the Canadian market because of negative outlooks on the Canadian dollar, oil and other commodities are returning, says Lesley Marks, senior vice-president and chief investment officer, Fundamental Canadian Equities, at BMO Asset Management.

«If your approach is to just buy a bunch of reports to see what's going on in the marketplace, that's not as likely to get you a return on your market research dollars as a specific need,» says Robert Rubenstein, who spent three decades in the market research business at Canadian corporate heavyweights Molson Breweries and TD Canada Trust before recently founding his own startup, Horizn.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

A stronger U.S. dollar adds another 2 % to those returns for Canadian investors.

«The RBC PMI returned to positive growth territory during June, reflecting the lift to Canada's manufacturers provided by an improved U.S. economy and a more competitive Canadian dollar,» said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.

The new report, by University of Guelph economics professors Douglas Auld and Ross McKitrick, finds that the cost to Canadians of biofuels support programs has been between $ 3.00 and $ 3.50 for every dollar these programs return in benefits.

Canadian stocks, EAFE markets (all foreign market returns are reported in Canadian dollar terms), Emerging markets and REITs all posted double digit gains in the past quarter.

Only 8 % of actively managed U.S. equity funds outperformed the S&P 500 in Canadian dollar terms, while less than 5 % of actively managed International equity funds outperformed their respective index return.

They are returning to moderate levels from where they were a year or 18 months ago; and the effect should be positive for Canadian companies, as they will continue benefiting from a lower Canadian dollar.

The depreciating Canadian dollar boosted foreign stock returns somewhat.

Note the differences in returns between gold priced in U.S. dollars and gold priced in the Brazilian real, Turkish lira, Canadian dollar, Russian ruble and Indonesian rupiah.

OTTAWA — A five - year $ 50 - billion public infrastructure spending initiative would generate a return on investment to Canadians over the long term as high as $ 3.83 per dollar spent, trigger significant private sector investment and stimulate wage increases, according to a new study by an independent economic modelling firm.

«Currency gains accounted for the bulk of the return this quarter, as the Canadian dollar continued to slide against most major currencies,» added MacDonald.

The big gains were provided by international stocks: US stocks gained 9.5 %, Emerging markets were up 10.2 % and European stocks were up 5.9 % (all returns in Canadian dollar terms).

During that period, his portfolio posted an annualized 8.3 - per - cent return before fees, compared with 5.6 per cent for the S&P / TSX Total Return index and a 3.2 - per - cent loss for the S&P 500 Total Return index in Canadian doreturn before fees, compared with 5.6 per cent for the S&P / TSX Total Return index and a 3.2 - per - cent loss for the S&P 500 Total Return index in Canadian doReturn index and a 3.2 - per - cent loss for the S&P 500 Total Return index in Canadian doReturn index in Canadian dollars.

«From 2011 to 2016, the TSX had an annual compound return of 5.2 per cent (including dividends) while the S&P 500 had an annual compound return of 12.4 per cent, or 17.3 per cent in Canadian dollars.

«If you look at the S&P / TSX Composite Index, it had an annual compound return (including dividends) of 8.9 per cent between 2001 and 2010 while the S&P 500 had an annual compound return of 3.0 per cent, or -2.3 per cent in Canadian dollars given our currency's appreciation during that period,» says Dimock.

But if you take a slightly longer term view and consider the fact that XSP has trailed IVV returns in US dollars every year for the past five years, you'll find that XSP's outperformance is significantly eroded by the tracking error even with a significant appreciation in the Canadian dollar.

On the contrary, from 1983 through 2004, inflation averaged about 3 %, but the nominal annual return on gold in Canadian dollars during this period was — 0.3 %.

During the 10 years ending in 2011, U.S. stocks (measured by the S&P 500 in Canadian dollars) delivered negative returns, while developed markets in Europe, Asia and Australia (measured by the MSCI EAFE index) were just barely positive.

The ETF hedges foreign currency exposure, so the index returns are measured in Canadian dollars.

You then report the capital gain, or loss, on your tax return based on «the difference between those two Canadian dollar amounts.»

It has some of the most innovative and entrepreneurial companies in the world, and historically, U.S. equities have delivered some of the highest equity returns in Canadian dollar terms, says Wong.

Hedging worked well in the mid-2000s and other periods when the Canadian dollar rose dramatically, but over the long term it causes a drag on equity returns and may even increase a portfolio's volatility.

In the past two years, the Canadian dollar's rise against the many other currencies partially muted strong global equity returns.

Still, the CPPIB acknowledged that its second - quarter returns were eroded by a strengthening Canadian dollar.

Therefore, the strength or weakness of the US dollar has no effect on the return that international equity ETFs deliver to Canadians.

Of course, since 2005 gold has been the best performing asset class, with annualized returns of about 18 % in Canadian dollars.

All returns are expressed in Canadian dollars.

Inflation in Canada averaged almost 9 % from 1970 through 1982, and gold would have provided an enormous safety net during this period: its annualized return (in Canadian dollars) was over 25 % during those 13 years.

For the S&P 500 in the U.S., converted to Canadian dollars, returns were 10.55 %, 9.77 % and 11.59 %.

I'll be posting complete 2012 returns for all of the model portfolios — adjusted for Canadian dollars — as soon as all the data are available.

Her ETF is denominated in US dollars, but her returns are measured in Canadian dollars.

If a Canadian buys an unhedged index fund that tracks US stocks, her returns will suffer if the US dollar declines against the loonie.

In 2009, while U.S. stocks made huge gains, the plunging American dollar trimmed some 15 % from the returns of Canadians holding those stocks.

However, the Fact Card for CGL quotes data from 1994 that shows the standard deviation of gold returns is actually slightly lower in Canadian dollars (14.69 %) than in US dollars (15.15 %).

So for a Canadian holding CGL, a declining US dollar could be doubly good: it would likely correspond with a rise in the price of gold, and the hedging would mean even higher returns in Canadian - dollar terms.

The managers use complicated financial instruments designed to smooth out currency fluctuations and deliver the full return of the underlying stocks in Canadian dollars.

To test this idea, I looked at equity index returns for Canada, the US and international developed markets (in Canadian dollars) since 1970.

Returns for US - listed funds are expressed in Canadian dollars.

Not only have US stocks significantly outpaced Canada and the rest of the world (albeit with low returns by historical standards), but the US dollar appreciated more than 1 % annually, which boosted returns for Canadian investors who did not use currency hedging.

So investors in XIN should expect the same return in Canadian dollars that local investors in Europe, Asia and Australia receive in their own currencies.

Yet the nominal return on gold in Canadian dollars during this period was — 0.3 % annualized.

To an investor measuring her returns in Canadian dollars (as most of us do), the returns of the two versions would have been the same.

So, you get the same return as the S&P 500 in Canadian dollars.

Canadian bonds (a higher Canadian dollar will keep inflation low, hence reinforcing positive fixed - income returns)

But return from foreign stocks was muted by the continuing strength of the Canadian dollar.

The big gains were provided by international stocks: US stocks gained 9.5 %, Emerging markets were up 10.2 % and European stocks were up 5.9 % (all returns in Canadian dollar terms).