Spring Into ETFs Investing 2023 — Part 1 & 2
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Spring Into ETFs Investing 2023 — Part 1 & 2

The Core-Satellite approach to investing has the potential to enhance risk-adjusted returns in your portfolio by incorporating asset classes that are less correlated with the broad markets offering better diversification. Find out how you can harness opportunities in niche markets to strengthen your portfolio with this best of both-worlds strategy using ETFs.

Index based investing, or passive investing, has grown rapidly as investors recognize the benefits of a low-cost option to gain investment exposure to a wide variety of market benchmarks. Find out how active versus passive investing styles have performed overtime as we review SPIVAs latest findings. Discover how index ETFs are not all created equal, and important considerations for investors when looking to adopt this approach.

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What Are Active Fixed Income ETFs?
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What Are Active Fixed Income ETFs?

Over the past 5 years we saw the expansion of active fixed income ETFs in the Canadian marketplace, what has caused the sudden surge? Ahmed Farooq, Sr. VP, Head of Retail Distribution at Franklin Templeton, explains in this video.

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What are Factor ETFs?
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What are Factor ETFs?

You may have heard of them before, but what are Factor ETFs? What is behind the hype and why do investors gravitate towards them when building portfolios. Ahmed Farooq, Sr. VP, Head of Retail Distribution at Franklin Templeton, explains in this video.

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What Are Bond ETFs?
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What Are Bond ETFs?

In this video, Jonathan Needham, VP & Director of ETF Distributions at TD Asset Management, explains:

  • What is a bond ETF?

  • What kind of choices exist for Canadian investors?

  • Why does TD Asset Management think that Bonds are very compelling at this juncture?

  • Why do Bond ETFs deserve your attention for your Fixed Income/Bond exposure?

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What Are ETF Trading Best Practices?
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What Are ETF Trading Best Practices?

Buying and selling ETFs takes a little more consideration than when trading stocks. Not sure of what to look out for? Veronika Popova, Director of ETF Strategy at CI Global Asset Management, offers simple best practices to ensure optimal execution when trading ETFs.

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What Are The Benefits of ETF Investing?
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What Are The Benefits of ETF Investing?

ETFs have become a popular investment option for many investors looking for access to different asset classes. In this video, Jaron Lui, Director of ETF Strategy at CI Global Asset Management, explains how ETFs can provide several benefits including liquidity, diversification, transparency, and lower cost.

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What Are Market Makers?
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What Are Market Makers?

Learn from Zachary Shiller, Director of ETF Sales & Trading at BMO Capital Markets, on what Market Makers are and why they are important to the ETF industry.

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What is ETF Liquidity?
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What is ETF Liquidity?

David Wysocki, VP of National Sales at Harvest ETFs, explains ETF liquidity, why it’s different from stock liquidity, and how to manage liquidity when trading ETFs.

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Choosing the Right Covered Call Strategy
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Choosing the Right Covered Call Strategy

Covered call funds have become popular in recent years as investors look for higher yielding investment strategies to add to their portfolios. A covered call option strategy involves investing in a portfolio of stocks and then selling call options on the same stocks that are held in the portfolio. This strategy allows a fund to generate additional income from the premiums received when selling call options, which reduces the volatility of the portfolio and allows the fund to pay out higher distributions than it would otherwise be able to do.

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