How to really diversify your portfolio
Abitter lesson of the global stock-market rout is that diversifying equity exposure by geography or sector provides little portfolio protection...
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Why Diversification is Failing
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Further to yesterday's blog on how global investing failed to protect Canadian investors, there's an important piece aimed at financial... -
"Going global" and other failures in diversification
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Think back to four years ago, when some of Canada's most popular mutual fund companies -- Franklin Templeton, Invesco Trimark and many... -
Tax Time starts in earnest -- Jamie Golombek Q&A today
Monday, March 2, 2009
With RRSP season over as of midnight tonight, it's now officially tax preparation time. The filing deadline is Thursday April 30, just... -
The Cycle of Market Emotions, revisited
Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
Earlier this week, in this column in the paper, I pulled a line from Odlum Brown's research director, Murray Leith, which generated... -
TFSA awareness on the rise
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009
The TFSA or Tax Free Savings Accounts introduced in January are a hit with Canadians, according to a survey by TNS Canadian Facts. Contrary...
Biography
Jonathan Chevreau joined the Financial Post in 1993 and has been the personal finance columnist since 1996. He has authored or coauthored eight financial books, including the Smart Funds Guides and The Wealthy Boomer. He also writes the Wealthy Boomer column in FP Weekend and blogs at wealthyboomer.ca. On Mondays, his Well Advised column anchors the Advisor Post page. Prior to the Post, Chevreau was a technology reporter at The Globe and Mail, a freelance writer and a publicist.
