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 [...]
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 [...]
LONG LIVE BUY AND HOLD! Warren Buffett has said that his favourite holding period for a stock is forever. That might be taking buy and hold investing to an extreme, but we share the general sentiment. We recently looked at [...]
People are worried about the stock market. We can tell because we get phone calls. This happens pretty much every time the markets hit new heights, and I guess it’s not surprising. After all, we are by definition in uncharted [...]
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 [...]
Every October for the past seven years we have presented our financial outlook for the coming year to our clients. This year we will hold our event on October 17th, and for the second time, we will have a professional [...]
Asset allocation, which sounds pretty boring, is much more important than stock picking. Deciding how much of a portfolio to put into cash, into bonds, and into stocks, has a huge effect on returns over time. One of the key [...]
There have been a number of stories in the press in the last month speculating that the major Canadian banks are in danger of suffering the kind of melt-down that almost destroyed the American banking industry in 2008. The boom [...]
Pundits are once again commenting on the difference in performance between the Canadian and American markets, and no wonder. Since the market bottom four years ago, the S&P 500 has gained 136%, while the TSX has risen 70%, only about [...]
One of the great things about travel is the opportunity to see how other countries and cultures work. On my annual sailing trip in the Caribbean last month I left the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by boat, [...]
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