Simple investing isn’t easy
In my last post, Why Simplicity Beats Complexity, I covered why simplicity often beats complexity, especially when investing. To quote…
An Odd Way to Invest
Today’s post is inspired by a recent conversation with my two teenage kids. They were humouring me one day,…
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,…
Have low interest rates got you down?
Are you familiar with Shakespeare’s famous advice: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”? Penned more than 400 years ago,…
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…
What is “Total-Return Investing”?
What is “total-return investing” and how does it work? In our recent blog post, STOP Chasing Dividends, we argued against…
Cash is not king: A better investment strategy for your TFSA
The good news is that Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) are finally garnering wider use. According to BMO Financial Group’s…
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…