John Hood
Horizons Balanced Tri ETF
HBAL-T
TOP PICK
Aug 03, 2018
Harvest’s version of VGRO, about 65% equities. Difference is it started trading yesterday. Likes the concept. Bit more expensive at 35 basis points, but doesn’t own actual securities, done through derivatives. So for some people, they don’t pay any income, it’s a total return.
These are very innovative products. They are swap-based products. HBAL-T is the total market. There are no distributions from the fund. There are stocks and bonds.
Tax efficiency in non-registered accounts. There was some comments in the recent budget about the way income is tagged to redeemers. A bit technical but it did seem to affects a whole bunch of mutual funds and ETFs. Feels there isn't the perfect amount of clarity from regulators. We're in a little bit of a position of ignorance regarding the tax efficiency of these products. As far as exposure goes it's a very good product, if you really want tax efficiency he would compare similar products like VBAL or XBAL and pick the one with the lowest yield.
An asset allocation ETF, which he's not a big fan of. They tend to sell the winners and buy the losers, which doesn't make a lot of sense. He bought VGRO, held it for 6 months, and sold it due to lack of performance.
Harvest’s version of VGRO, about 65% equities. Difference is it started trading yesterday. Likes the concept. Bit more expensive at 35 basis points, but doesn’t own actual securities, done through derivatives. So for some people, they don’t pay any income, it’s a total return.