In the last post, I reviewed my goals from a year ago when starting this website. 2022 Goals How Did 2022 Go? The stock market is (has been) quite a roller coaster ride. In one year, it has fluctuated from -8% to +10%. The graph below has five distinct “highs” and four distinct “lows” in…
When I first embarked on my investment journey with this blog, I eagerly dived into the world of individual stocks, handpicking companies like Manulife, Great West Life, Enbridge, Pembina Pipeline, and even Pizza Pizza. The thrill of researching and identifying promising companies to invest in was exhilarating, and I believed I had chosen stocks that…
When I say that I was sitting in cash on this blog, I usually mean it literally. It’s usually money parked in my checking account or my brokerage cash account. I just checked my bank’s website, and they proudly say that “no interest is payable” on most accounts. To be fair, until recently, there wasn’t…
I wrote in the last post that I was not satisfied with any of the so-called money market or short-term bond funds available in Europe. It was a real problem because I wasn’t comfortable investing more cash into risky assets. And there were no safe assets. Today I had a bit of an epiphany on…
In the last couple of days, I’ve decided to push some more money into the market in a very conservative way. Extremely conservative. I put 13.5% of my portfolio in Canadian ultra-short-term bonds using the BMO Ultra Short-Term Bond ETF (ZST). BMO Ultra Short-Term Bond ETF has been designed to provide exposure to a diversified…
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