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   * **Portfolio Selection** is my main March 2021 topic . . . starting from scratch. Which will be the first purchase right now for her new $75,500 TFSA. How does one decide. After 40 years of experience, it's well worth the $50 folks to get access. Also, in March, the revised Graham formula valuation sheet. Which of 30 dividend growth stocks are expensive using Ben Graham's formula from Chaper 14(ATD,for sure), which eight, with a long record of annual consecutive dividend growth, have sensible prices.
   * Why would you allow/trust a third party (advisor, so-called wealth manager), who has no interest in your welfare/no skin in your plan, to come between (sell) you and your company? Learn how to do it yourself.
+  * Nov 2021 An **index fund **is a product created by ‘the street people’. It is flawed. Fatally flawed, actually. You can’t win with an index fund. It’s an average. Certainly an index contains good stocks but mostly the holdings are sub-par. But this is not the fatal flaw. Valuation is. The average long-term return of the market is some 9%. Folks are lead to believe that they can obtain the return regardless of when they invest. This is not true. Valuation matters: when you invest is critical. As I write this in late November 2021, the market (index) is way overvalued. Returns from here will be negative.
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   * May 1 2021 - Why do 'they'* over diversify with scores of stocks and even bonds? 'Their'* fund can't be a loser alone. So 'they'* herd, run with the crowd of other *money managers. When 'they' fail conventionally, there's no pink slip. As a result, most wealth managers do not beat the market. More on this inside dividendgrowth.ca in April 2021 blog under HERDING
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   * Sept 2020 - Does the ETF the predator is trying to sell you provide an increasing income? Ask. Insist on seeing the last ten years of distributions for the ETF. Why this question? It's the increasing income that drives things*. Growing income is what you want during retirement. The more your income grows, the less of your savings you'll have to withdraw. Ten years ago our largest portfolio provided $26,367 a year in dividends: now it's over $40,000. * price in particular.
-  - ETFs - Nov 2012 - Remember/realize that ETFs were invented so that some ‘middle-person’ could get between you and direct investing in a company and siphon off a fee.
+  - ETFs - Nov 2021 - Remember/realize that ETFs were invented so that some ‘middle-person’, ill-educated advisor could get between you and direct investing in a fine company and siphon off a fee.
   * **Risk Profile Questionnaire** (new Aug 2020) - When you open an account, 'they' want you to fill in their risk profile questionnaire. DECLINE IT! Say no! Tell them you are aware of the risk and that you have a clearly thought out asset allocation. If you wish, tell them you mitigate risk with quality companies and that you believe "as an investor's time horizon lengthens...equities become less riskier than bonds" (Warren Buffet's Feb 20 Letter, page 6). ♣ If you want to get out of their office with out getting hooked by them, here are two questions they can't answer. **#1** Going back ten years, tell him/her to write out the annual distributions from the specified ETF. You are interested, tell them, in a growing cash flow in retirement. **#2** Ask them to hand-write out the promise that they will put your interests before theirs (FIDUCIARY DUTY).

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