How Understanding Statistics Can Make You a Better Investor
Statistics Tools & Mindset Can Help You Avoid Bad Investments Today’s post is inspired by a recent conversation with my…
Stock-Selling Skills: Can You Beat the Professionals?
Late last year, while most investors were nervously watching market volatility dominate the popular newsfeeds, a group of academics quietly…
How Evidence-Based Investing Saves Long-Term Wealth: Avoiding the “Big Mistake”
Count on an Evidence-Based Investing Approach to Withstand the Temptation to Cut and Run When the Market is Scary “Buy…
Battle of the Brains: Market Portfolio 1, Fancy Hedge Fund 0
Over a decade and after costs, which approach should come out ahead: investing in a simple, S&P 500 index fund,…
Q&A: Stock markets are at all time highs … should we sell?
Here’s a question I received recently, which rhymes with many I’ve heard before: Now that the Dow has hit 20,000,…
Q&A: What do powerful political plays mean to my investment portfolio?
From the Clinton vs. Trump U.S. presidential elections, to the unfolding U.K. Brexit news, to keeping an eye on our…
Q&A: What is behavioural finance: And what’s it to me?
We have written extensively on evidence-based investing, or how capital markets really operate, and how we can profit from this…
The timely and timeless roles of fixed income investing
We are going to take a break from our Financial “Stop Doing” series this month to address a subject that…
Interest rates are rising (or falling): What should I do with my bond investments?
Question: What should I do about bond market news? Answer: There is rarely a lack of breaking news related to…
For what it’s worth: Avoiding “Tracking-Error Regret”
One way that many investors measure financial success is by comparing their returns against popular benchmarks like the S&P/TSX Composite…