CIPF Coverage: One Brokerage or Many?
Spreading out where you invest money, diversification, mitigates the risk of any single investment or group of investments blowing up[…]
Read more
Category: Investing Basics
CDIC Coverage: One Bank or Many?
Depositing your money in a bank account or as a guaranteed investment certificate (GIC), is probably the safest way to[…]
Read more
Intern At Work Podcast: Personal Finance During Residency
One of my colleagues started a podcast during residency, called The Intern at Work. It has continued and grown as[…]
Read more
Expensive Self-Talk For Investors
You’ll encounter a variety of expensive storytellers on your investing journey. Some get paid to sell you stories. Others use[…]
Read more
Tales of Charlatans & Chagrin
People love stories and the delivery of a good investment narrative by a skilled and charismatic storyteller is powerful. However,[…]
Read more
Sales Pitches: The Legend of Permanent Life & Pandora’s Private Equity Box
Stories are powerful and investment narratives are no different. Last week, I fought fire with fire and told some stories[…]
Read more
Expensive Storytellers: The Narrator
I spent the last few posts laying out foundational knowledge for building and managing your investment portfolio. Understanding asset pricing[…]
Read more
Why Investment Diversification Wins in Your Portfolio
The opposite investment strategy of specialization is diversification. I previously discussed why you should specialize in your business or professional[…]
Read more
Efficient Market Hypothesis = False = Doesn’t Matter
For most investors, we buy and sell capital assets via publicly traded markets. In the preceding post, I described how[…]
Read more
Understand Asset Pricing to Get Paid. Not Played.
To win at investing, you must buy something lower and sell it higher. So, price matters. You also don’t want[…]
Read more