With market multiples at lofty levels, investors have options to protect against a market pullback – much like a farmer may protect the value of their crop using options. It’s time to consider laying off some of the risk from runaway markets that don’t make
Why work for a living when your house out-earns you? In a “truth is stranger than fiction” moment, the price appreciation of homes in greater Vancouver have produced more than the sum total of all work done by every single human being that lives in
So May is almost over, and most markets around the world are up, putting the notion of ‘sell in May and go away’ in question. The facts are simple, while there are tendencies of price behaviour at certain times during the year, it is by
The Investment Landscape has changed – Will You have enough to retire in the new normal? Blackrock CEO Larry Fink’s latest to shareholders addresses some of the main topics of my current roadshow. Specifically the section titled: Changes to the investment landscape. Will you have
The financial industry has been male-dominated for a long time, but the tables have turned and women are poised to become more influential when it comes to money and financial decisions. Yet women still lose more sleep worrying about money than men, and in many
You work hard for your money, then you lose potentially more than half of it to taxes, and battle volatile markets to get it to grow. The last thing you want to do is lose it to fraud and scams. With that in mind, we’ve
There have been no shortage of market pundits lately suggesting investors sell everything because the markets are going to Hades. There was one UK Bank that issued such a reckless recommendation as to sell everything at the trough of the January decline. While I’ve suggested
Trying to understand the mass psychology and behaviour of the markets can help us make better investment decisions. We have all heard of the idea of buy low sell high, but how do we figure out when to do it. Most investors tend to dislike