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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There is one name that stands out from all the rest in any discussion of DIY dividend investing in Canada, and that is Tom Connolly. Author of the long-running printed…