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This works out really well for regular TD efund contributions (i.e. TD US index US$) within an RRSP with eventual «conversion» to ETF at Questrade without the forex fees.

I don't recall reading any posts on that... I have my sons RESP in TD eFund indexes and the CESG comes in no problem...

When I was setting up my TD eFunds for my RRSP a few years back, I think the currency neutral US index fund was the only one you could use for an RRSP if you wanted a US index, because you couldn't hold an RRSP in US dollars.

Can you explain more about RESP's and TD eFunds not being optimal?

As I've noted in this post, I am enrolled through TD eFunds.

I have set up a RESP for my boys with TD eFunds, which doesn't charge an administration fee and offers some of the lowest - cost index mutual funds in Canada.

Thank you for sharing this rebalancing spreadsheet for TD eFunds!

I also bought your RESP book just before our daughter was born 2.5 years ago, and her RESP is off to a good start with a small mix of TD efunds.

I find these TD efunds a little confusing.

I wonder if one thing to consider in the switch from mutual funds to exchange traded funds (and index fund like TD eFunds) is that mutual funds are often sold as part of a financial planning package that includes tax, retirement, estate, children's education, etc planning.

(TD eFunds and Altamira provided the cheapest funds at the time of writing.)

I found out last week that TD efunds can be purchased with USD within TD Investment RRSPs.

- decide to shift rrsps to TD efunds — attempt this in late jan, 2009, watch bank rep wait to sell investments until early March - watch money sit in aether between BMO and TD until early May, while TSX climbs 30 % from when you liquidated - bang head against desk; repeat

I use ETFs for lump - sum purchases that are «past the threshold», and TD eFunds for small amounts I buy during the year.

On the morning of March 1st, I contributed an extra $ 3500 to my TD eFunds RRSP account.

Anyways, I'm with Credential Direct ($ 19 / trade) and I also have a TD eFunds account.

i am not sure why TD mutual funds do not give us 1) additinal CESG & 2) CLB... a pity otherwise MER for TD efunds are a treat....

I am going to do the same thing (TD efunds) for my son, who is currently about 3 weeks old.

Ah, if you're a financial consultant, I would think you woulnd» t need the TD efunds at all then ~!!

ETF for India, China, Vietnam, etc.)-- Vanguard is good; I am in process of replacing the TD eFunds with Vanguard ETFs (I should have done it much earlier but they were under in my RRSP, it should have not mattered, the corresponding ETFs were low too)-- Big companies are good (McDonalds, Starbucks, Pfizer, WM) until they are not so perhaps I should get rid of them and buy more Vanguard ETFs — Buying distressed companies could be a winning proposition but have I very mixed results so better not (BP and Transocean bought after the oil spill, Nortel, BlackBerry, and Nokia — BP and NOKIA good, Transocean under not much, but under, BB very, very bad, and Nortel no comments)-- Berkshire is very good as it is a kind of ETF but what would happen after Warren Buffett (who would have thought AIG would need to be bailed out and the shareholders wiped out in the process or other cases where individuals brought companies down for example Barings the oldest bank in England)

Not exact matches

Stefan: These funds are TD e-Series mutual funds (that's the name for the old eFunds).

I park the initial contribution and the CESG in a money market fund, which I then liquidate and buy four funds according to my asset allocation target (TD Canadian Bond Index eFund: 20 %, TD Canadian Index eFund: 20 %, TD US Index eFund: 35 %, TD International Index eFund: 25 %).

Mike, the reason we're considering moving to ETFs is because the amount in our RRSPs is made up of basically one fund (TD CDN index efund) as our 401k's make up the rest of our assest allocation.

TD Waterhouse would seem like the perfect discount broker choice for someone wanting to use eFunds and ETFs

I have no other TD accounts except an online efunds RESP.

We're in the same situation as you, trying to move money out of a TD Term RESP account and into efunds.

If you plan on making large lump sum payments each year, than there may be better ETF options out there than TD - efunds.

Scott: the attractiveness of TD's efunds is that these funds track the major market indexes at the lowest possible costs (for a fund that is, with etfs you can get much cheaper).

Speaking of TD's eFunds, can anyone explain to me how (or whether) I can track these funds» performance automatically in Quicken?

I have tried since Dec 2007 to get an RESP efund account thru TD.