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Old 05-17-2017, 04:43 PM   #265
Clever_Iggy
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
Canadian equities had an expected rate of return of 6.4% in 2016. Not sure where you geniuses are trading.

http://fpsc.ca/alerts-updates/2016/0...ion-guidelines
I'm literally the definition of an inactive investor: money comes off my pay cheque and goes into my RRSP, TFSA and an employee share purchase plan. This thread made me dig into the actual return numbers and summaries provided by SunLife to see where I stood relative to other posters. I'm not sure how to answer your question other than I selected a moderately aggressive "growth" portfolio based on my age, number of years remaining to retirement and "risk tolerance" (for me, I consider myself "moderate).

I have a small investor edge account through CIBC which I use for my share awards and to invest on my own in companies I find interesting (we're talking <$10k in capital). My current portfolio consists of a couple small O&G companies, a royalties land company, a potash company, two rail related companies and a tech company. Over the past 2 years I've only averaged 6.67% ROR.
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