Sunday, April 14, 2019

Case study: My RRSP scotia US index fund

April 14, 2019

Introduction


It is my personal finance research. I did not purchase RRSP starting from 2010 June. I started the full time job at MP Lighting.com from June 15, 2010. I did not put money away into my RRSP until 2017. I like to do a case study on my RRSP.

Case study


I have to push myself to learn how to manage the retirement account. I did make choice to sell RRSP from money market fund, and then purchase US index fund with 1% management fee.

I also added another $1200 dollar to make it $3,000 dollars. I also choose to purchase $100 dollar one month, now it is $3500 Canadian dollars.

4/14/2019



The price goes up 10% compared to 2011 January $31.00 dollar one share. Based on dollar average research, I will make more profit if the price goes down. I need to think about how to do rebalance. 

2019-01-09

 I decided to sell RRSP in Scotia Canadian income fund, and then I like to take advantage of 10% drop of index fund back in January 2019. 



2019-01-25

I decided to put extra $1200 dollar into RRSP, so I made purchase in 2019 January 25. The price I paid is $31.7064.


2019-04-14

I need to export all the transactions, and I need to do review and rebalance if I need. I am learning Morningstar, and I like to apply the knowledge I learn into my real management of RRSP. 

First, I complained through message to Scotia, I need the product feature to export as .csv file. I need to export into Excel sheet. 

Compared to 2001, I am the smart person. I understand that it takes time to learn and also manage the account. I need to review all transactions, and also I need to do a quarter review. 


Quarterly review


This is the first time I like to do quarterly review of my RRSP account.

2019-01-25  $2942.82, price $31.7064, Share 92.8150
2019-02-01  $100 investment
2019-03-01  $100 investment
2019-04-01  $100 investment

2019-4-14    $3557.42 market value
                     $3242.82 book value
                     $34.93 per share
                     101.8370 share

If I sell it today, I can make profit $315.00 dollars, assuming that I do not need to pay penalty. I learn that it is better for me to continue purchase if the price goes down. I already bet that the market is low in January 2019, so I add extra $1200 dollars into my RRSP.


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