Mark Yamada, President & CEO of PŮR Investing Inc., designs portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for investors. In my last post, I reviewed his use of  “risk budgeting” to rebalance portfolios with regard to the volatility of stock markets (a technique employed by the larger pension funds).

The new repeat sales price index (RSPI) is major development for Canada, I believe. We will have a less biased idea of how house prices are changing. Yet, there doesn’t seem to be much coverage in the media so far. There has been some in the blogosphere. One in particular stands out, ...

I carried through on Friday’s plan to unwind the short position on crude oil, selling my holding of the double-short, exchange-traded fund (ETF) Horizons BetaPro NYMEX Oil Bear Plus (HOD). I had planned to do it when the price went up another 5% to give me a 50% gain, but ...