About this episode

The episode discusses essential considerations for Canadian DIY investors regarding ETFs, portfolio strategies, and the active versus passive investing debate.

Today's episode is going to be especially useful if you're a Canadian DIY investor and you want to build an optimized, passive, low-cost portfolio, but you still have questions about some of the practical details. For example, should you just buy one all-in-one asset allocation ETF, or is there a benefit to buying the underlying ETFs individually? How much should you care about ETF trading volume? What does liquidity actually mean when we're talking about ETFs? Should you use market orders or limit orders when buying ETFs? And if you're an income-focused investor, what are the pros and cons of building your portfolio around dividends? We also get into the active versus passive investing debate, why it's so difficult for stock pickers and active managers to consistently beat the market over the long term, and how investors can think about risk when comparing traditional bonds with things like low-volatility ETFs. Also as a Build Wealth Canada listener, we have a brand new free issue of Canadian MoneySaver magazine for you. The issue focuses specifically on ETFs here in Canada, I wrote an article for it as well, and you can get the digital version of the entire magazine for free by…

People in this episode

Host: Kornel Szrejber

Guest: Chris White

Topics covered

• DIY investing
• ETFs in Canada
• portfolio management
• active vs passive investing
• risk assessment
• dividend investing

Keywords

• ETFs
• Canadian investing
• portfolio optimization
• trading volume
• liquidity
• market orders
• dividends
• risk comparison

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Canadian MoneySaver Magazine, 5i Research, CBC Radio, BNN Bloomberg

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