Learning paths / Path 3
Know what you own.
5 lessons on looking inside your funds: the companies, the concentration, the countries, the currency and the income. About 4 minutes each.
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You know what you own. 🌱
You can now look through a fund, read its concentration, country mix and currency, and tell a payout from a return. More paths are on the way. The Sunday email picks up from here: one lesson a week, five minutes.
Get the Sunday lessonAll paths5 lessons, in order
Each lesson builds on the one before. Do one a day or all of them in one sitting.
- 4 min
One ticket, thousands of companies
A fund is a wrapper. Learn to see the companies, countries and industries inside it.
- 4 min
The top 10
Why 500 companies does not mean 500 equal bets, and how to spot overlap between funds.
- 4 min
Canada is a small slice
How much of the world's stock market is Canadian, and what "home bias" means.
- 4 min
The currency inside your fund
A fund priced in Canadian dollars can still rise and fall with the U.S. dollar.
- 5 min
Yield is not return
What a payout really is, how covered-call funds work, and what you give up for income.
Where to go from here
Each path stands on its own. New ones are announced in the Sunday email first.
Start Here
For anyone starting from zero: your accounts, what is inside them, ETFs, fees and the habit.
Path 2 · 6 lessonsAccounts and Tax
For anyone with a TFSA, FHSA or RRSP: exact room, deadlines, the first-home stack, taxable accounts and rules for newcomers.
Read a business
How to understand a company like an owner. No stock picks.
One idea, one move, one number. Five minutes. Free, and the 64-page Field Guide is yours when you join.