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Reboot Your Portfolio: 9 Steps to Successful Investing with ETFs Paperback – Nov. 1 2021
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With low-cost alternatives and low trading costs widely available to the average investor, why do Canadians still struggle to manage their money effectively?
Many stubbornly believe that successful investing is about outsmarting the market and forecasting the economy, even though these strategies routinely fail. So, we focus on the wrong things - such as short-term market moves, or which stocks to buy - and take inappropriate risks, losing sight of the fact that a portfolio is simply a tool to help us achieve our goals: buying a house, saving for a comfortable retirement, or a university education for our kids.
Whether your nest egg is $1,000 or $1 million, Reboot Your Portfolio is the roadmap you need to take control of your investments, shake off your bad habits, reduce your money stress, and enjoy the financial future you deserve.
* Offers a simple nine-step approach to building a low-cost, low-maintenance, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
* Covers all the steps you need to know to set financial goals, select ETFs, open accounts and place orders, build and maintain your portfolio, and stick with your plan for the long haul.
* Written by an award-winning journalist and the creator of Canadian Couch Potato, one of the longest-running and most popular financial blogs in the country.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMilner
- Publication dateNov. 1 2021
- ISBN-101988344328
- ISBN-13978-1988344324
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As a regular contributor to MoneySense and other publications, he won a National Magazine Award and was twice named Financial Journalist of the Year by the CFA Society Toronto. Dan is the creator of the Canadian Couch Potato blog, one of the most trusted investing resources since its launch in 2010.
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- Publisher : Milner (Nov. 1 2021)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 1988344328
- ISBN-13 : 978-1988344324
- Item weight : 300 g
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #45 in Finance in Accounting
- #69 in Finance (Books)
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To be clear, this isn't a "get rich quick" book. The investing approach advocated is index-investing, which has historically been shown to give strong & steady returns to grow your money and outperform the majority of investors over the long-term with manageable risk. Dan lays out a compelling case why over the long-term indexing is likely to outperform active management, regardless of if done by yourself or a professional, with much lower fees & less work involved. And best of all: the basic strategy makes sense whether you have hundreds or millions to invest.
While the technical steps to invest in an index fund are relatively straightforward nowadays, the "steps" presented here are really about laying a strong foundation: understanding concepts such why indexing works, what your risk tolerance is, what diversification you need and what you don't, which type of products to select, when to add new money, when to worry about fees and when to focus on simplicity, dealing with FOMO, and how to stick to your plan. This background is invaluable to making a proper financial plan and sticking to it.
Dan's background in journalism really shines through, with complicated concepts being explained in simple terms with plenty of evidence. It's also a really enjoyable read that never feels dry or boring, despite the subject-matter. Even as someone already familiar with most of the content, I enjoyed the read and it acted as a great refresher. And while focused on Canadian investors, I suspect even those in other countries would benefit from 95% of the book's content.
The book does focus on simplicity and thus emits (or only touches on briefly) some of the more advanced indexing/investing topics around areas like tax efficiency. Dan's likely right that in most cases worrying about these topics is likely to lead to more lost in mistakes and trading costs than any savings (especially for portfolios not at least mid-six-figures large), not to mention the extra effort, so avoiding these topics was probably the right call. But for those with larger portfolios & discipline and who are willing to do some more work to squeeze out some more savings, Dan and his colleagues have plenty of resources online to dig into these advanced topics; point being, even if you don't fully follow Dan's "keep it simple" advice, this book will still serve as a great foundation to make sense of those more advanced concepts.
Overall, regardless of your age, net worth, investable assets, previous investing experience, and anything else, I'd highly recommend giving this book a read.
The fact that Andrew Hallam gave this book 5 stars should be enough for anyone to be confident that this book book is a must read for any Canadian interested in responsible personal finance.
Dan has condensed years of his blog posts and podcasts into a clear, consise summary of everything you need to know to get started as a DIY investor. Highly recommended.
It doesn’t matter if you invest with a financial advisor, if you want to do it all yourself, or something in between, Bortolotti describes how to cost effectively build the portfolio that suits you the best, and he does so in a clear and concise writing style.