The Interest Rate Pendulum changes direction
For those of you who tune in to the financial media on a regular basis, you will no doubt agree that interest rates have been the hottest topic of the last three years.
What you need to know about the 2024 Federal Budget
The Canadian government presented the 2024 federal budget` and it contains several proposals that may impact you. We’ve picked out the top three proposed changes that we think will have the biggest impact and have summarized them here.
Think like a Farmer
How do farmers do it? It takes strong will and fierce dedication to give yourself a chance of being successful. Well….as investors we can relate to some degree as we have chosen a profession based on markets that have often been described as a “random walk”. That is precisely why we appreciated this list that was sent to us recently.
Moneyball
The true story of Billy Beane sticking his neck out to manage the Oakland A’s in a way never seen before is inspiring and thought provoking. There are a few Moneyball concepts that we are leaning on today to position ourselves in this challenging environment.
Make Sunshine While the Hay is Out
Speculation and investing are not the same thing; many of the of the sensational headlines that we are seeing today do not apply to how we manage your hard-earned money.
Is this Normal?
There are a lot of parallels between his humbling experience and the market experience so far in 2022. At the time of writing this blog we are almost three quarters through 2022 and it has proven to be a difficult year. That said, we are still within the boundaries of what we would put in the category of “normal"...