Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO LLC, one of Europe’s large value managers made the case last month that the final stage of the bull market could see a massive melt up. Grantham has studied all historical bubbles and is regarded as an expert in the
The tradition on Berman’s Call has been for me to use the last show of the year to forecast what I expect for 2018. Let me start off by saying, at the end of 2016 I was concerned about the risks building in the world
The Fall 2017 Investor’s Guide to Thriving featured “What’s Your Investor Personality?” – a fascinating talk about the behavioral science of successful (and not so successful) investing. Larry leads the audience through an interactive questionnaire to identify the 4 key personality profiles of individual investors.
Gold yields nothing. It actually costs money to own gold; insurance, a safe deposit box, and perhaps a gun if you keep it at home. Gold equities yield about 1%, so not much better. Gold competes again bonds as a flight to safety. Like bonds,
The after-tax income of the top one per cent would rise by 7.5 per cent in 2018 under the bill’s provisions, according to several estimates The bottom 80 per cent of the income distribution would see their after-tax income increase by between 0.8 per cent
Last week was financial planning week. Launched in 2009, an integral part of Financial Literacy Month, Financial Planning Week is part of an ongoing effort by Financial Planning Standards Council (FPSC) and the Institut Québécois de Planification Financière (IQPF) to raise awareness of financial planning
If it takes five minutes to make five widgets on five machines, how long does it take to make 100 widgets on 100 machines? This question was first posed by Shane Frederick of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was part of a three-question quiz
Tulip bulbs were once a store of value. Their value was determined by their beauty and what the next person would pay for one. They can die (and can be mined so to speak), which was a troubling sign, but they never had stable demand…
Diane writes in and asks: Many of the BMO ETFs that Larry mentions on the show have low volume in comparison to most stocks. Is there a certain volume minimum in which we should be concerned about when purchasing these low-volume ETFs? Diane, Volume is
The Canadian dollar has been on a roller coaster all year. Early in the year, the message from the Bank of Canada was that the economy was not at full potential and continued to require extremely low interest rates. Coupled with this, the U.S. Federal