1) Focus on dividends. Buy companies that have a history of raising dividends each and every year. A company that raises its dividend signals confidence for the following year. 2) Don’t overpay. Buy companies that are trading at a Price Earnings [...]
In 1998, I was 24 years old and working at my first full-time job as a Trust Accountant for CI Mutual Funds. As a trust accountant, it was my responsibility to reconcile several trust accounts by 4pm each day (Snore - I’m amazed that I lasted two years at that job before going back to school to get my MBA).
I recently watched an interview from 1985, one of the first times that Warren Buffett appeared on national TV. He said two things that I found striking. The first was that the price of a stock in the stock market tells you very little about its value. We believe that.
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." - Randy Pausch After 17 years in the investing business, I still have so much to learn. I continue to learn from others’ ideas and mistakes as well [...]
Donald Trump told the world that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the stamina to be President. Hillary fired back that Trump doesn’t have the temperament to be President. Soon enough, we will get to see if Trump has enough of both [...]
By Barry Schwartz Here are Barry Schwartz’s four prescriptions to ensure misery in investing. First, believe all the tried and tested adages such as “sell in May and go away”. To ensure misery I highly recommend that you stay true [...]
By Barry Schwartz As of last week, we have now reduced our client’s weighting in energy producers to zero. Here’s what we know. We know that with the price of oil at these levels, our favourite energy names (Suncor and [...]
by Barry Schwartz At our shop, we are always on the hunt for a new investment idea. We try to research two new stock ideas a months. While we look at a lot of names, we rarely buy more than [...]
By Barry Schwartz Over the past fifteen years I've learned a few things about investing and managing money. No two investors are alike. But here's what works for me. 1) I am not a better investor because of my university [...]
By Barry Schwartz That's it? The great stock market correction that everybody and their brother predicted would happen in Canada is already over? The week of October 14, 2014 was damaging, especially for those overweight commodities but this correction ended [...]
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