Market peaks shouldn’t be scary
It’s hard to open a financial newspaper, check your social media feed or even listen to the news these days without hearing someone talking about
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Alan MacDonald
The importance of finding better problems
Last year, we had the folks from a very successful organization come into Ottawa to facilitate a one-day workshop called “Creating a personal/business vision of
An investor checklist for 2024
Ottawa investment expert Alan McDonald of RBC Dominion gives us an investor checklist to follow in 2024.
Why optimism is the only realistic outlook
It’s tough being an optimist these days. The political culture wars are driving friends, families and countries apart. Europe and the Middle East are engulfed
Staying put in a tough market is hard: Trying to time the market is worse
Investors have been on quite the roller coaster over the last five years. We’ve had three bear markets – when markets go down more than
Fat tails and the precautionary principle: How Isaac Newton lost his shirt in the stock market
Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician, physicist and philosopher who was considered by many to be the father of the scientific revolution, and one of
How to get a perpetual seven per cent return on your investment capital
One way you can lock in today’s high rates of return forever is by adding some perpetual preferred shares to your portfolio.
Too many investors fear longevity too little – and market volatility too much
In 1993, the cost to mail a letter in Canada was 43 cents. Today (assuming anyone were to actually want to mail a letter) it
Cheap and boring: Why the least exciting stocks look pretty good right now
Mark Twain has been credited with saying that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” In my experience, this sage observation is particularly fitting
When is the right time to exercise stock options or sell stock in your company?
One of the most frequent questions I get from clients who own their own companies, or who have a significant portion of their money tied
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