Sentences with phrase «canadian equity needs»

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In order to know whether or not you're achieving your employment equity goals, you need to know how many aboriginal Canadians, women, people with disabilities and members of a visible minority have a PhD in economics.

However, Canadians already have significant holdings in local markets through index funds, ETFs, mutual funds or direct stock holdings and need to calibrate their allocation to Canadian equities to account for the additional exposure through VEU, which at present is 5.5 %.

«For example, when the fund pays distributions it needs to sell a portion of the Canadian equities to raise the cash, and in years when markets have positive performance those positions will be sold at higher prices than they were acquired, and thus trigger capital gains.

You also need a few ingredients to make a well - diversified investment portfolio — some Canadian equity, some U.S. and international equity and a dollop (even a large dollop) of fixed income, perhaps in the form of bonds or a bond fund.

In my opinion, VXUS is now the best international equity ETF on the market, and the only one most Canadian investors will ever need.

If you're a DIY investor looking for historical returns on specialized Canadian equity indexes, you'll need to know your way around a spreadsheet.

You could start out with half your money in a Canadian bond fund and half in a Canadian equity fund (you may eventually need a money market fund, too).

I don't think the world needs another large - cap Canadian equity ETF: that's covered.

You could make the case for building a portfolio of just four ETFs, providing you with a healthy mix of Canadian, U.S. and international equities as well as your fixed - income needs.

I argued a simple portfolio of two actively managed mutual funds — one a Canadian balanced fund, the other a global equity fund to maximize what was then the 30 per cent foreign content limit in RRSPs — was all average investors needed to create a hefty RRSP nest egg.

Johnston said the industry has a need for more information behind the headline numbers, such as the 73 per cent home equity that the average Canadian household is said to have today, according to Statistics Canada.

This level of comfort may be because Canadians believe they are in control of their mortgages: taking aggressive actions to pay them down, leveraging their equity to consolidate debt or make new investments, taking advantage of low interest rates and increasingly turning to mortgage brokers rather than major banks for their mortgage needs, CAAMP says.