Archive for March 2024

Asset allocation ETFs revolutionized investing for do-it-yourself investors when they were first introduced by Vanguard in 2018. Prior to the existence of these multi-asset ETFs, passive investors might have opted to follow one of the Canadian Couch Potato’s model portfolios to build their own multi-ETF portfolio (remember the 10-ETF Über-Tuber portfolio?).  That’s why I say…

Author Fred Schwed gave us his cynical take-down of Wall Street back in 1940 with the hilariously written, Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?. The book amazingly still holds up today in a world where investment advisors get rich while their customers, well, not so much. “The title refers to a story about a visitor to…

The price of bitcoin is surging again and recently surpassed all-time highs. That has brought all of the ‘crypto bros’ out of hibernation to gloat about bitcoin taking over the financial system (or whatever they think happens next). Shares of NVIDIA Corp are also soaring to new heights. The semi-conductor company recently surpassed $2 trillion…