ETF Insight

Priced-in Perfection? (TWTW – May 3-7, 2021) This week had it all, in my books! WealthSimple (Simple if you are WealthSimple?) To wit – has Canada’s financial space gone “SPAC tactics”? Call Justin, someone, please! Ok, not Justin T, the PM, no, the Bieb! That’s probably now what it’s going…

Vanguard Canada is Canada’s 3rd largest (and sole independent one amongst the largest 3) ETF providers. As of the end of April 30, 2021, AUM across the firm’s ETF offered aggregates to slightly over CAD 38 Billion, up from marginally over CAD 25 Billion as of 12 months ago, an…

Sell in May … Go away? (TWTW – April 26-30, 2021) Naturally, I am being cheeky with that title … wish it were that easy – don’t you? Seasonality: For those of us who have been in the business a while (most of us, presumably …), the concept, or rationale…

Several strategists recently suggested markets had some digesting to do … as far as recent gains, in order to validate the record levels recently reached. With S&P earnings reporting now in full swing, we’ve so far had the best earnings growth since the third quarter of 2010 according to FactSet…

A few weeks back when I mentioned reviving ETFinsight, and backfilling my database, (a critical component as far as getting a good sense of what it going on, respectively what different product providers, methodologies, “engineering”, smart or otherwise bring to the table), I suggested a regime change in markets was…

Little Doubt (TWTW – April 5-9, 2021)   Blow out March 2021 Payroll and TESLA delivery numbers kicked off this past week on a positive note. These, however, did nothing to help Credit Suisse, which announced the damage sustained in that whole Archegos margin call episode. And that, well, isn’t…

As this week kicks off on a positive – last Friday’s blow-off in US NFP, respectively Tesla deliveries spiking up nicely, I find myself reviewing what we just all went through in March. And that is where “another benefit ETFs bring to the table” comes in, namely as it is…