Apple Archives - Baskin Wealth Management

Emerging market investing: You’re not in Kansas anymore

2014-01-08T15:31:20-05:00By David Baskin|Categories: Blog|Tags: Apple, BNS, Cisco, David Baskin BNN, Directv, GM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Teva|

When you invest for a living, it is hard to escape your profession, even during vacation. When my wife and I landed in Lima, Peru just before Christmas, I couldn’t help but notice the Scotiabank branch across the street from [...]

You can. Or maybe you can’t

2013-04-29T14:48:19-04:00By Barry Schwartz|Categories: Blog|Tags: Apple, Barry Schwartz Baskin Financial, Barry Schwartz BNN, Baskin Financial Services, BNS, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, National Bank, National Bank raises dividend, Scotiabank, Share buybacks|

You can’t say that stocks are at all-time highs. Adjusted for inflation, the S&P 500 is 25% below its previous peak over 13 years ago. You can say that stocks are cheap, given that earnings on the S&P 500 are [...]

Watching Paint Dry

2013-02-05T15:36:05-05:00By David Baskin|Categories: Blog|Tags: Apple, Dividend paying stocks, SNC, SNC Lavalin, SNC-Lavilin, value investor, Warren Buffett|

Paul Samuelson won the Nobel Prize in Economics and also wrote the introductory textbook that got me hooked on the subject. Here’s what he had to say about the stock market: “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or [...]