Tony Dong

1 week ago | mediafeed.org | Tony Dong

Over the long term, I believe the best hedge against inflation is equities. All else being equal, a broadly diversified basket of companies will, on average, grow earnings over time and return capital to shareholders through buybacks or dividends. The risk you take as an equity owner compensates you more than just holding cash. But sometimes inflation gets really nasty. Think the late 1970s, before Fed Chair Paul Volcker stepped in and jacked up interest rates into the double digits.

2 weeks ago | investing.com | Tony Dong

A growing number of Toronto condo owners are underwater, and that’s before you even factor in the wave of buyers walking away from preconstruction deals because they can’t scrape together enough cash to close. Forget 5% cap rates. Many landlords are lucky to break even right now. Add in a pullback in immigration, 7% nationwide unemployment, and softening rents, and the dream of earning easy monthly income from a downtown shoebox in the sky is looking more like a financial sinkhole.

2 weeks ago | investing.com | Tony Dong

You’ve probably heard of the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:). Launched on March 10, 1999, it’s one of the most well-known ETFs (technically a Unit Investment Trust, or UIT) in the world today. For many investors, QQQ has become synonymous with “tech stocks” or even “growth investing” in general. I often find people gauging the pulse of innovation-driven equities by looking at QQQ’s performance, rather than digging into the underlying (NDX).

2 weeks ago | money.usnews.com | Tony Dong |John Divine

Getty ImagesMost investing experts, regardless of whether they favor active management or passive indexing, agree on one thing: All else being equal, the lower the fee, the better. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds both come with ongoing costs, but not all investors will understand exactly how these costs are calculated. A fund's expense ratio is simply the annual cost of managing and operating the fund, expressed as a percentage of its total assets under management (AUM).

2 weeks ago | moneysense.ca | Tony Dong

ETFs Canada’s original asset-allocation ETF is still a good all-in-one investment, but it can have its flaws. Here are add-ons that could improve its risk-adjusted return. The Vanguard Growth ETF Portfolio (VGRO) has been a staple of many do-it-yourself investor portfolios since its launch in January 2018—becoming, along with its siblings VBAL and VCNS, the first asset-allocation exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Canada.