The Importance of Finding Better Problems

 February 14, 2024 |Alan MacDonald
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 greatness.” This particular company set up a training arm to help other businesses and people...
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Staying put in a tough market is hard: Trying to time the market is worse

 November 13, 2023 |Alan MacDonald
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 20 per cent – since 2018. Equities (like stocks) have bounced up and down more times than most of us care to count...
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Fat tails and the precautionary principle: How Isaac Newton lost his shirt in the stock market

 October 17, 2023 |Alan MacDonald
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 the greatest thinkers of the seventeenth century. He was also a wealthy man, who inherited a small fortune...
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Cheap and boring: Why the least exciting stocks look pretty good right now

 July 31, 2023 |Alan MacDonald
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 it comes to stock markets and the behaviour of investors. In the 1960s and 1970s,...
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