Two days ago the stock market officially entered bear market territory, coming down 20% from its high just a few weeks ago. Yesterday the TSX dropped another 12% – the largest one day drop in its history. The beating investors […]
Coping with a market correction
As I write these words, the TSX Composite is down 11.2% in the last week – officially a market correction. News headlines are screaming that it’s the fastest sell-off in history. The talking heads on BNN are turning shades of […]
BPY.UN: does Brookfield Property Partners belong in your portfolio?
I am no stock analyst, I just play one on this blog (from time to time). With a recent shake-up of the TSX 60 index, Encana (ECA) is out and Brookfield Property Partners L.P. (BPY.UN) is in. BPY sports an […]
How did BTSX perform in 2019?
How did your investments perform in 2019? Some will be surprised that it was such a good year. The S&P/TSX Composite Index returned about 22% including dividends. The bad news for mutual fund investors is that, as usual, the vast […]
What is SPIVA?
If there is one thing every investor should know about before considering the purchase of an actively managed mutual fund, it is this: the SPIVA report. SPIVA stands for “S&P Indices Versus Active” and it describes a semi-annual scorecard comparing […]
What is confirmation bias?
Building on last month’s post which addressed how we might tackle investing in a potentially “over-valued” market, I thought I would explore one of the most common cognitive biases that undermines good financial decision-making: confirmation bias. About a year after […]
Is it a good time to invest in the stock market?
There is one investing question that comes up more than any other: Is now a good time to be putting money into the stock market? The stock market has been on a nearly unprecedented 10 year bull run – how […]
How to become a DIY investor: is there a better way?
Managing our own investments does not have to be complicated. Most of the time a simple strategy will outperform a more complicated one. But I haven’t met a single DIY investor who wasn’t intimidated at the start. At some point, […]
How Dividend-paying Stocks Behave During A Market Crash – by David Stanley
To accompany our monthly BTSX portfolio update, we have another post by the father of Beating the TSX, David Stanley. Personally, I am in the middle of moving, so I appreciate his contribution of content for this site but, rest […]
Isn’t it great to be an individual investor? (by David Stanley)
Two days ago the S&P 500 dropped 800 points – almost 3% (the S&P/TSX Composite Index was “only” down about 2%). The next morning, I found an email in my inbox from David Stanley with this article attached. If anyone […]