Another option is for you to manage
the portfolio yourself at a discount brokerage.
Let's say you have a traditional Couch Potato
portfolio at a discount brokerage, with 40 % in a bond ETF and 60 % in Canadian, U.S. and international equity ETFs.
Not exact matches
Using a data on the
portfolio holdings and trades of a sample of 41,039 individual investors (with demographics)
at a large U.S.
discount brokerage house during 1991 - 1996, they conclude that: Keep Reading
Using personal characteristics and
portfolio / trading data from tens of thousands of individual
brokerage accounts
at a major U.S.
discount broker for the period 1/91-12 / 96, they conclude that:
We recommend setting up an RESP account
at your bank's
discount brokerage, and then buying low - cost exchange - traded funds or index mutual funds to build an RESP Couch Potato
portfolio.
You can buy into these funds just like you would buy any U.S. stock through your broker or online
discount brokerage, said James Telfser, an associate
portfolio manager
at Caldwell Investment Management in Toronto.
He's set up a TFSA
at a
discount brokerage and makes automatic contributions to a
portfolio of low - cost mutual funds.
If you are a big contributor with a small
portfolio and are keen (but not superkeen) to save costs then it might make sense to start
at a
discount brokerage instead of
at TD and then switching.
(My book, Findependence Day, is aimed
at just these types of investors who want to build low - cost
portfolios of ETFs
at discount brokerages, but who also value good advice).
However, we suspect that many MoneySense readers are largely self - directed investors who are acutely cost - conscious: perhaps they set up Couch Potato
portfolios of ETFs that they buy themselves
at a
discount brokerage.