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“Views from the Desk” Podcast

On this podcast, we often cover best practices that can not only help you now, but will also be relevant throughout your investment lifetime. But what if you also want an update on what is happening with your investments, the markets, and the economy right now?

To help me stay up-to-date on these topics, a great Canadian podcast that I listen to weekly is called “Views from the Desk” (Apple, Spotify, Direct).

They provide timely information for us Canadians on what is happening to our investments right now, as well as other key factors affecting us like changes to our interest rates, our inflation, and regulatory changes that we should know about.

The podcast is hosted by BMO ETFs. I’m a huge fan of theirs, I own a lot of BMO ETFs myself, and it’s a great free resource for both new and existing ETF investors.

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Questions Covered:

1. To kick things off, what are some of the major and common mistakes that you see Canadian investors make when they do their own analysis on which investment to buy?
   
   
2. When we are looking to compare two investments, whether it’s a mutual fund, or an ETF, what is the process that we should follow to make sure that we are doing appropriate and thorough due diligence.
   
   
3. The fees that we pay on our investments can literally make a difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars over our lifetime. To help us all determine if we’re paying near the low-end vs the top-end of the spectrum when it comes to fees, what would be considered a “high” fee vs a “low” fee for the Canadian investor?
   
   
4. Are there other charges or fees that we should be mindful of in addition to just looking at the MER for an ETF or mutual fund?
   
   
5. When we are evaluating what to invest in, what is the easiest way to determine whether a fund is active vs passive?
   
   
6. Some  managers of high fee actively managed funds will often try to justify their higher fees by saying that those fees are offset by the market beating returns that they generate. When we hear an argument like this, how can we pull up their fund and compare it to an index fund to see the returns after fees, in order to determine whether their claim is true?
   
   
7. One recurring challenge that I’ve seen some Canadian investors face is that they are convinced that an all-in-one passive index ETF is right for them, but they currently hold some investments that have done better than the index over the short term. For example, maybe they purchased a high fee actively managed fund, or perhaps a specific stock that has outpaced the market over the last year or two. In those scenarios, how should the investor be thinking about those investments and what are some common blind spots or errors in judgement that you’ve seen when investing in this way? (vs just using ETFs to buy the whole market).
   
   
8. There are many Asset allocation / All in One ETFs available to investors right now. Can you walk us through the due diligence process when comparing these types of ETFs?
   
   
9. Thanks so much for coming on Danielle. Are there any other educational tools and resources that you can direct us to? and anything else that you’d like us to check out?

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