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.
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
Paul Tudor Jones, a prominent U.S. hedge fund manager who made his claim to fame calling and profiting from the 1987 stock market crash, is now putting his money behind a burgeoning sector: ethical investing. Mr. Jones is backing a not-for-profit firm called JUST Capital,
We are finally seeing an uptick in volatility in U.S. markets. Seasonally, it’s time to get a bit concerned as most of the worst market declines have started in the third quarter. There are always things to be concerned about when investing, especially when the
I’m bullish on clean energy over the long term, although it’s been a terrible investment for the past decade and I have not been in it. I’m now starting to get very interested with the fundamentals and technicals starting to align. U.S. President Donald Trump’s
As I scan the ETF world each day to look for good value, there are not many places to find it. So, despite my long-term view that energy prices are at best range bound, dividends are now attractive again on a risk-adjusted basis, compared to
I’ve been asked a dozen times in the past few days about Home Capital Group. My look at it combines some fundamental, technical, and a general understanding of the housing market. Conclusion: Avoid the stock because there are going concern issues. Speculators love to catch
Our own Robyn Graham is featured in this recent Globe article: Every basis point counts in this low-yield world. That’s especially true for retirees, who need steady returns from their portfolios. In this respect, ETFs can help. They often have management expense ratios of less
The only free lunch on Wall Street is diversification. Putting assets in your portfolio that can help reduce your risk is the prudent thing to do. For 15 years, analysts and strategists have been telling you to be bearish on bonds – that prices would
It seems clear the Liberals do not have an Action Plan for Canada. Since the 2016 budget, the private sector has downgraded the outlook for GDP growth in Canada. In other words, SELL, SELL, SELL. Either they have no confidence in Liberal policies or the