The Investing Case for Canada
Canada has always had to play second fiddle to our neighbours to the south. The Great White North just never seems to get the respect it deserves, whether it’s the frequent lag in products arriving on...
View ArticleOil Price Forecasters Adjust to a New Market Reality
As recently as a couple of months ago, few in Alberta would have predicted that the biggest blow to their oil-driven prosperity since the global financial downturn would come via a shakedown by Saudi...
View Article5 Reasons the Stock Market is Just Plain Weird
Markets have indeed been strange for some time now. Most investors are confused about whether to sell, or buy, or panic, or just go to cash and avoid the craziness. However, if you think more closely...
View Article2017 – An Investing Year of Few Certainties and Plenty of Potential Risk
The incoming leader of the world’s biggest economy has no experience running a government and appears to have a shaky grasp of geopolitics. He is intent on cosying up to Russia, has pledged to rip up...
View ArticleWhy it’s Time for Canada’s Financial Industry to Put the Customer First
Scrutiny of the financial industry has been on the rise in recent months, fuelled in part by CBC News reports alleging unscrupulous practices at Canada’s big banks. The CBC’s findings may not have been...
View ArticleHere’s Where Your Investing Returns Really Come From
When markets are good, advisers and portfolio managers get too much credit for investment returns. Clients are happy that their nest egg is growing and attribute their good fortune to their provider....
View ArticleGetting Nervous About the Markets? Try This Strategy
As you’ve probably heard by now, the stock market now finds itself in this, the ninth year of the current bull market dating back to the end of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. As far as history...
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