Is it possible to save money by investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs) instead of mutual funds? For many of Vanguard‘s mutual funds, this is possible. Even more importantly, Vanguard ETFs offer Canadians and people living internationally the ability to invest in Vanguard mutual funds via ETFs. First, I’ll compare the difference between investing in [...]
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Filed under Growing Your Wealth,Investing
How to Invest in Vanguard Funds Using ETFs — and Save Money While You’re at It
39 Comments Kevin on Aug 30th 2010
Invest It Wisely is featured this week! I would like to give a big thank you to Larry MacDonald for featuring Invest It Wisely in the “Me and My Money” section of the Globe & Mail. Thanks for giving me the opportunity and for doing a great job with the interview! For those of you [...]
9 Comments Kevin on Aug 8th 2010
Filed under Avoiding Scams,Growing Your Wealth,Investing,Saving Your Money
How Mutual Funds Rip You Off with Extra Fees and Charges
In my last post, I showed how index funds allow you to save more money by losing less of your investment returns to management fees. Here is what different management expense ratio (MER) levels will cost you on an initial $10,000 investment at 10% growth compounded annually:
30 Comments Kevin on Aug 6th 2010
Filed under Avoiding Scams,Growing Your Wealth,Investing,Saving Your Money
Save More Money with Indexed Funds
In my short investment journey, I have read books, articles, and blog posts about the merits of index funds. “Invest in index funds”, they say, “and stop wasting your money on management fees!” Are the authors really telling the truth? Passive investing The idea behind an index fund is simple enough: all it does is [...]
46 Comments Kevin on Aug 3rd 2010
Filed under Growing Your Wealth,Healthy Living,Interviews,Investing,Market Analysis,Miscellaneous,Opinion,Philosophy
Meet Andrew Hallam: The Millionaire Teacher
I am pleased to have the honor of having Andrew Hallam with us today for an interview. Andrew is a highly respected investor currently living in Singapore, where he works as an English teacher at Singapore American School, and writes freelance finance articles. Nominated a finalist for two Canadian National Publishing Awards, his writing has appeared [...]
41 Comments Kevin on Jul 12th 2010
This is the fourth and final post in a series of articles on living to 100 and beyond. This post was originally published on June 12, 2010. Traditional retirement planning is made with one main assumption in mind: after you retire, you will only live a couple of decades at most, and you will be [...]
41 Comments Kevin on Jun 12th 2010
Another week passes by, and another tens of thousands of barrels of oil gush out into the Gulf of Mexico, adding to what is possibly the U.S.’ worst environmental disaster. With the failure of one attempt to stop the leak after another, pundits are now starting to look at more drastic (and perhaps insane) alternatives, [...]
8 Comments Kevin on Jun 6th 2010
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Another Hot Week Passes by…
Here is your weekend reading:
8 Comments Kevin on May 28th 2010
