When you invest in these holdings are you doing
it mostly in a taxable account?
Not exact matches
If you plan to keep to roughly a 50/50 asset mix, and can get there by selling registered positions, ideally you would stand pat with your
taxable accounts, which presumably are
mostly in stocks: if they are quality dividend - paying stocks then you should care more about the tax - effective cash flow they generate and should not get too worried about the variability
in the underling stock prices.
We're looking at a similar funding target and expecting it to either a) barely cover or
mostly cover college if they go
in - state, or b) be woefully underfunded, and then we can help out with money from
taxable accounts.
There are cases where it makes sense to contribute and defer taking the deduction,
mostly when your contribution room is limited (where you'll end up with non-registered investments no matter what), but it's not as hands - down beneficial as I thought when I did it as a grad student, and not as simple as I implied
in the previous post looking only at the value of the deduction (and ignoring that the contribution will likely grow over time even if left
in a
taxable account).
Although consisting
mostly of long - term capital gains, the fund's recent substantial distributions (over 5 % of NAV
in each of 2013 and 2014) made it less suitable for
taxable accounts.
Moreover, the Vanguard and iShares ETFs that did have capital gains
in 2013 were
mostly bond funds, and there can't be many Canadians who hold US bonds
in taxable accounts.