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Mary Hagerman More than a decade ago, when I first started talking to clients and prospects about the benefits of investing with ETFs, one question that often came up was, “If an ETF follows the underlying market index, then it will go all the way down when the market corrects. Isn’t that too volatile for me at my age?” Turns out, clients had good reason to ask: ever since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, market volatility has increased. During the pandemic, we saw the longest bull marke...

The Globe and Mail Andrew Hallam Published January 12, 2021 Bookmark When I was in elementary school in the late 1970s, many of my teachers smoked. I remember knocking on the staff room door at lunch and, as the door opened, a wall of smoke hit my face. These days, teachers can’t smoke in schools. Even if they could, few would. It’s medically proven to shorten people’s lives. The medical community was likely among the first to butt out: They probably saw the science first. You might ...