With the Canadian dollar rocketing upward by 25% against the U.S. dollar since March, the benefits of foreign diversification are to be had with less gnashing of teeth. That is, if a long-term Canadian investor were to begin diversifying outside the country now, their U.S. assets will likely spend more ...

Two new iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) began trading yesterday on the Toronto Stock Exchange. They give Canadians new ways to diversify into foreign stock markets. Coverage that I have seen so far includes pieces by Jonathan Chevreau and Rudy Luukko.

Michael Panzner’s When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the end of the American era takes a look at what’s likely to follow the financial meltdown of 2008. If the scenario laid out in the book turns out to be as accurate as the forecast in the author’s 2007 book, ...