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Does your portfolio have mutual funds that own fast-food or chain-restaurant stocks? How about paper products? Or food or snack companies? If it’s a broad-based stock index fund, the answer is almost certainly “yes.” And that means your portfolio includes companies potentially responsible in one way or another for one of the most pressing environmental calamities: deforestation. In 2020, the World Wildlife Fund reported that the world lost 53% of forest wildlife between 1970 and 2018. ...

How to build a portfolio that reflects your values in five steps Ruth Saldanha 20 April, 2021 | 4:28AM When it comes to retirement accounts, most companies offer too many funds, writes my colleague John Rekenthaler. 15-20 options can intimidate some from starting a plan – and entice others to pick the most trendy, and volatile, performers. For helping people invest their pensions better, Richard Thaler won a Nobel Prize. He wrote there were too ...

Should RRIF Minimum Withdrawals Be Abolished? Some argue yes, as the “discriminatory” requirement doesn’t fit the reality of today’s low yields and growing life expectancies Yan Barcelo 6 April, 2021 | 1:45AM These times of infinitesimal interest yields and greater life expectancies are dangerously increasing the chances for seniors of outliving their savings. That’s why commentators believe it is time for the Federal...

From 2016-2020, Canadian banks poured over $700 bn into fossil fuels, and shareholders are demanding change Ruth Saldanha 5 April, 2021 | 4:38AM Last week the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Federal Government’s carbon tax is constitutional – setting a floor for the tax rates observed by each province and giving credibility to the government’s proposed $170 per metric ton tax by 2030. But to what extent will the money actually follow?...

Long-term investors in funds may have to contend with taking losses for quite some time Ali Masarwah 1 April, 2021 | 4:38AM "I used to think the perfect reincarnation would be to be reborn as a president or a pope. Or as a star baseball hitter. But today, I would be reincarnated as the bond market: You can intimidate anyone." This bon mot of James Carvill, an advisor to the Clinton administration, has more than just a grain of truth to it. If a c...

The popularity of the company’s funds raises a tricky question, says Morningstar columnist John Rekenthaler

You want to get rich, and you think cryptocurrencies are the way to go. Beware: those massive returns you've heard about come with massive risk

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The Morningstar Star Rating for Stocks is assigned based on an analysts estimate of a stocks fair value. It is projection/opinion and not a statement of fact. Morningstar assigns star ratings based on an analyst’s estimate of a stocks fair value. Four components drive the Star Rating: (1) our assessment of the firm’s economic moat, (2) our estimate of the stock’s fair value, (3) our uncertainty around that fair value estimate and (4) the current market price. This process culmina...