What did investors read about last week? Four cheap global stocks for diversification, investing do-s and don’ts and the real cost of home ownership were the most popular articles last week
Four cheap global stocks for diversification
These names from the Morningstar Global Markets ex-US Index have sound fundamentals and are trading at meaningful discounts to fair value
Investing do-s and don't-s
Morningstar’s Director of Passive Strategies Ben Johnson shares his personal investing manifesto, in eight simple bullet-points
The real cost of home ownership
Canadians looking for homes may begin finding that it's better to rent and invest than buy and payoff
Top performing mutual funds of Q1
Three marijuana funds had returns over 30%, while one global equity and one U.S. equity fund made the top 5
Four cheap U.S. stocks that are winning
Who said you can't get a sustainable competitive advantage on sale?
The best performing mutual funds of 2018
Of over 1,000 medalist mutual funds that had positive returns, most of the top performers are U.S. focused
Resource fund manager looks for growth
RBC’s Brahm Spilfogel focuses on companies, and not on predicting swings in commodity prices
It's still a good time to invest in Canadian real-estate - selectively
Capital appreciation shouldn’t currently be the key consideration, but there are opportunities in income generation if you look carefully
Ontario to restrict use of planner and advisor titles
Legislation will protect the use of financial planner and advisor titles and include a proficiency requirement