Gillian Livingston

After making the leap from the corporate world to entrepreneurship for better work-life balance, these women missed working with a team

Also known as smart-beta funds, they use computer models to choose investments, taking the emotion out of decisions

In what’s looking like a banner year for ETF launches, the vast majority of new products are actively managed

Canadians have sold almost $19-billion in balanced funds so far in 2024

Poor performance and lacklustre sales led to closure of BlackRock fund

Fixed income was still strong, but investors favoured foreign equities

High-interest savings account ETFs have seen outflows after a rule change earlier this year trimmed the yields offered on the popular products

Demand by investors and advisors for alternative assets has risen, and fund companies have answered the call

Canadians can choose to invest more aggressively if they have a time horizon of 10 years or more before buying a home but should shift to more a conservative approach once they’re three to five years away

But not all portfolio managers are convinced that now is the time to get back into a volatile fixed income cycle