This week Pete Evans from the CBC News wrote an interesting (and somewhat frightening) article that describes how high mutual fund fees could cause Canadians to delay their retirement or leave them with less money for their retirement plans.

If you hold Mutual Funds in your investment portfolio, you must read on.

After a strong performance in 2014, the North-American equity markets started off the year on a bumpy road. At the end of January, the S&P500 Index was down 3% year-to-date while the Canadian S&P/TSX Composite eked out a small positive return of 0.3% despite Oil prices collapsing.