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  • Affaires de PiassesOPM
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    31 year ago

    It’s strange: while I don’t like Wealthsimple uninterrupted tinkering with their portfolio, I am surprise you’re getting results this bad. VGRO is up more than 20% from 4 years ago. Are you sure your risk profile is high enough?

    Anyway you don’t necessarily need to wait to break even to move to an other investment: while it would look better, you may have to wait for a long time, so you could miss the performance of your planned investment in the meantime. I’f rather go with XEQT/VEQT than a SP500 ETF though.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I think that was my problem. My risk Level was 5. I had dropped as low as -20% and am still at -10%.

      I did recently switch over to higher risk, though. The main reason I didn’t was because I wanted to use some of these investments within a few years so low risk was what they recommended.

      • Affaires de PiassesOPM
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        31 year ago

        If you plan on using the money quickly, going with lower risk may be the right choice. Wealthsimple has probably used bonds for that though, and those have taken a beating in the last few years with the interest rates going back up.

        Depending on your plan, you may be better off putting your short term money in a HISA ETF : long term, you should get better returns with bonds, but short term, their volatility is superior to those of HISA ETF. If your money is necessary for your short terms projects, ie not having it may affect your plan, you may consider a safer bet.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          It was my plans to use that money until my investment tanked. So I’m holding off using it for a while. This is good input. Thank you

          • Affaires de PiassesOPM
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            11 year ago

            Great. I’m sure you know it, but you really don’t have to go all-in in S&P500 or even in equities: it may be highly logical depending on your situation to have more savings/fixed income and less equities, especially if you have short term plans.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Yeah, I’m learning that. I’m understanding more why some folks use GICs since they are guaranteed and I have more control of when I want to use the money

              • Affaires de PiassesOPM
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                21 year ago

                Just be careful with GIC, as some of them may lock your money for their complete length, which may not be convenient if you may need the money quickly, for example to buy a house.