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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Bitcoin can't do it. A piece of art will never dare. A bottle of wine? Forget about it. A bond? Are you out of your mind? There's nothing quite like a dividend increase. You don't have to put extra [...]
Lock the prison door and keep your hands away from the bars. Dr. Pepper Snapple is a stock cannibal that you should buy and put away for good. A stock cannibal is a company that is buying back a significant [...]
What do you get when you combine record corporate profits, a record high stock market, a threat of a taper and no inflation? The end of zero interest rates. Let me begin by telling you that rising interest rates are [...]
Over the past few days, I have had a number of people tell me that the market is overheated and they are waiting for a pullback or a correction to get in. If only I had a dollar for every [...]
In a recent white paper, famed investment thinker Michael Mauboussin raised an interesting question to shareholders, “If you own the shares of a company because you believe the stock is undervalued, why would you ever want the company to pay [...]
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