Life insurance is often viewed as a means of providing financial security for loved ones in the event of one’s passing. However, what many people may not realize is that life insurance policies can also serve as a strategic investment tool, offering a range of tax benefits that can enhance wealth accumulation and preservation.

Portfolio managers are constantly bombarded by market noise, our thoughts and our emotions — as well as those of our clients. Making good investment decisions requires thinking clearly and resisting the temptation to make impulsive decisions based on short-term market movements.

ETFs offer two routes to investing in AI: finding ETFs that have exposure to companies such as the Magnificent Seven, or investing in ETFs with models that have an AI-based stock-selection process.

The Canadian real estate market has dodged predictions of a crash for more than a decade, with home prices seemingly rising every year. As a result, many people may believe that real estate is a better long-term investment that the stock market or a broad-based ETF.

Whenever a new investment idea or ETF offering becomes available, my reaction is always to wait and see how things go before investing.

Studies have shown that women make good investors. What's more, a study released by Fidelity Investments in 2021 found that investment accounts controlled by women outperformed those controlled by men by an average of 40 basis points over a 10-year period.

Yet the same study found that only 9% of women thought they made better investors than men.