It’s been a week since the Toronto Blue Jays lost the American League Championship to the Kansas City Royals. Although the sting of coming so close to the World Series for the first time in 23 years will take some time to dissipate, there are some lessons to be learnedContinue Reading
Despite the proven risk-reduction benefits of portfolio diversification, it cannot be argued that one of the ways to get truly rich from equities is to have an exceptionally concentrated portfolio. If a stock is going to go up 10- or 20-fold, then owning a giant position in one great stockContinue Reading
It’s been nearly a decade since Kelly Jansen of Ottawa took her first tentative steps into the world of financial investment. She was, at the time, admittedly cautious. Overly so. Fresh out of a marriage where she took a backseat on financial matters, Jansen didn’t know how to build aContinue Reading
Success is often difficult to determine and many use a measurement based solely on absolute returns although all investors seek positive returns in abundant forms. It’s no mystery that the behaviour of investors follows similar cycles seen over and over in both boom and bust segments of market ups and downs and investors forContinue Reading
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