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A guide to the best robo-advisors in Canada for 2023
– moneysense.ca
They got clobbered just like everyone else.
Typical portfolios lost between 8% and 15% of their value in 2022. But so did mutual funds and other higher-fee investing vehicles. The fact that both stock and bond holdings withered in tandem—an extremely rare occurrence historically—made one of robo-portfolios’ normally attractive attributes, transparency, a liability. Compared to the competition, they didn’t do that badly.
Nonetheless, it behooves investors considering the switch to a robo-advisor to probe deeper into their options, asking tough questions around fees, performance, risk and the composition of portfolios…
Making sense of the markets this week: February 5, 2023
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Mixed earnings results for Big Tech
The fourth-quarter tech earnings season has been difficult to paint with a single stroke… as with many things so far in 2023. Is the dominant story that Meta (META/NASDAQ) shares popped 27% on Thursday after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a “year of efficiency”? Or is it the fact that Apple (APPL/NASDAQ) had its first earnings miss in seven years?
Here are the Big Tech earning highlights:
Alphabet (GOOGL/NASDAQ): Earnings per share of $1.05 (versus $1.18 predicted) and revenues of $76.05 billion (versus $76.53 billion predicted).
Amazon (AMZN/NASDAQ): Earnings per share of $0.03 (versus $0.17 predicted) and revenues of $149.2 billion (versus $145.4 billion predicted).
Apple (APPL/NASDAQ): Earnings per share of $1.88 (versus $1.94 predicted) and revenues of $117.15 billion (versus $121…
When investing, think like a landlord
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The annualized total returns for the TSX and S&P 500 (in Canadian dollars) were 9.6% and 11.7% as of December 31, 2021.
It is impressive, but the short-term volatility of the market can be quite extreme, and this year is a good example. The annual ups and downs of the market can lead investors to focus more on capital appreciation and depreciation. But stock returns come from both capital growth and dividend income, the latter being more predictable…