A year & a half ago I opened a secondary RRSP (like a Canadian 401k) to casually invest in some ETFs myself.

[syntaxseed@phpc.social]

A year & a half ago I opened a secondary RRSP (like a Canadian 401k) to casually invest in some ETFs myself. I balanced it against US equities (keeping them under 25%) which is generally against financial advice. The S&P 500 is still considered one of the best long term plays.

Anyway I invested in CAD hedged ETFs:

VCN (Canadian All Cap): up 22.45%
VEF (Global All Cap no USA): up 19.57%
VFV (USA S&P 500 index): up 9.75%

(Annualized returns.)

#finance #investments

[syntaxseed@phpc.social]

I realize there's a lot of ignored complexity here & 1.5 years is a very short timeline. But I don't think Trump's tariff war is doing what he thinks it is. And #Canada is going to be fine.

I know I'm not the only #Canadian moving my money back into our own country.

#ElbowsUp

[rickf@indieweb.social]

@syntaxseed Yup, I've been gobbling up stocks in CDN companies in recent months, too.

[cass_m@mstdn.ca]

@syntaxseed we've held core Canadian stock for several years in TFSAs. Hopefully people who can afford to add to their TFSAs are including Canadian indexes rather than US ones.