Personal Finance

Profits and losses are a part of the trade game. You are not a real trader if you haven’t suffered a loss. You can own the loss, learn from it, and get working on improving the trade or you can back out, blame it on luck, and exit the stock market forever. The choice is yours.

People who want to create wealth and build a better financial future are always on the lookout for information and advice that can help them fulfill their goals. Often, investors, experts or budding, attempt to do this by connecting with other people online through communities like Facebook, Reddit, and various other stock forums.

Clubhouse is fast turning out to be one of the best places to talk about finances and wealth. The audiocast social network has multiple rooms that are educating people about finance, stock markets and helping them to create wealth. Rooms generally work very simply: They put up a topic for the day and get in experts to come in and talk about finance. The room opens up to questions after a certain period and the audience can clear any queries they might have.

Here are some of the best financial rooms on Clubhouse:

The TFSA is one place where you can invest in stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, and GICs traded on designated exchanges. This means you can invest in securities trading on the TSX, the NASDAQ, and the NYSE. The only prerequisite for opening a TFSA is you should be above 18 years of age and have a valid Social Insurance Numbers (SIN).

Rebalancing your portfolio is important to understand for DIY investors looking to build long-term wealth. When building an investment portfolio, you usually choose diversified asset classes (stocks, bonds, ETFs, etc.) and an allocation for each of them. Over time, your portfolio allocation shifts with the markets and could be very different from what you intended. This is when rebalancing is needed.

This article will cover all you need to know about rebalancing: What is it? Why is it important? When should I and how often should I rebalance?

“Value investing is making a comeback.” This statement has been doing the rounds of finance circles for quite some time, it started around 2019 and then grew louder in the first quarter of 2020 before COVID-19 arrived and put value stocks firmly in their ‘place’ for the rest of the year. However, the second half of 2021 might actually see solid movement in the value investing space as economies reopen, vaccination roll-outs gather pace, and the world recovers from the pandemic.