Rob Carrick’s ETF Buyer’s Guide 2023: The complete series

This year’s edition of the ETF Buyer’s Guide offers Globe and Mail subscribers an opportunity to look at how exchange-traded funds in six categories managed the ups and downs of the market. Canadian, U.S. and international equity funds are included, as are Canadian dividend funds, Canadian bond funds and asset allocation funds.

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Best Canadian equity funds As sure as night follows day, outrageously strong stock markets eventually run out of fuel. That’s your scene-setter for the first installment of the 2023 Globe and Mail ETF Buyer’s Guide, covering Canadian equity funds.

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Best Canadian bond funds Awful as their returns have been, bond ETFs keep attracting a healthy flow of money from investors.

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Best U.S. equity funds It’s almost embarrassing how little exposure the Canadian stock market has to technology and health care. The solution: Make sure you have a U.S. equity fund in your portfolio.

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Best international equity funds Shorter-term numbers do show clearly that stocks from outside North America are worth having.

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Best Canadian dividend funds Several things went wrong for the stocks held by dividend ETFs, including a bad year for bank stocks and headwinds for utilities and pipelines as a result of high interest rates. The good news here is that falling prices for dividend stocks, and dividend ETFs, means higher yields.

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Best Asset Allocation Funds There’s a simple, three-word answer to your questions about which investments to use in the new first home savings account: asset allocation ETFs – they’re all you need to build wealth in an FHSA, as well as in a tax-free savings account, registered retirement savings plan, registered retirement income fund, non-registered account and any other accounts you have.

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