The antidote to market volatility

 April 21, 2022 |Alan MacDonald
It’s tough not to be a little worried these days. Between rising threats of inflation, new strains of COVID-19 on the horizon and the terrible events unfolding in Ukraine, we all have good reason to be concerned about where our world is headed, and what...
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Are we about to relive the dot-com era?

 March 14, 2022 |Alan MacDonald
It’s said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I’m old enough to have lived through more than a few major stock market setbacks in my time. I started my career just before the market-wide drop of 1987. In 1996, I saw bank stocks get...
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Market peaks shouldn't be scary

 February 14, 2022 |Alan MacDonald
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 how the markets have reached a new peak. You’d think that the markets reaching an all-time high would be...
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What do stocks, gold and Bitcoin have in common?

 January 21, 2022 |Alan MacDonald
Stocks, gold and Bitcoin. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be anything similar between these three incredibly different assets. Bitcoin doesn’t exist anywhere except on the Internet. Gold is a physical commodity. And stocks represent ownership shares...
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Winning by not losing

 November 29, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
It’s official: the SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) has landed. For those of you not familiar with SPACs, they’re the latest investing craze sweeping the global markets. And as with so many crazes, the closer you look at them, the less of a...
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How much should a young person save?

 October 26, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
I had a great question from a young client the other day. While the question itself seems simple enough, the answer is far from easy. The client in question is a young professional in her late twenties who is embarking on an exciting career. We talked...
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The impact of innovation - on hips, and on the markets

 September 27, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
Two weeks ago, I had both of my hips replaced. While this wasn’t the most fun way I could think of to spend a few beautiful summer days, it did teach me a couple things. First, I got to find out why so many seniors put tennis balls on the bottoms of their...
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Is the market too expensive?

 August 25, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
I’ve been in the financial services business for over 37 years now. In all that time, the one and only headline I’ve yet to see grace the top of any financial news section is: “the markets are too inexpensive.” On the contrary. Year after year, day in...
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Navigating the Cycles - Markets and Otherwise

 July 07, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
Last year, I sold my house in Ottawa and moved to a new place where my family cottage once stood. The timing, while pretty perfect, was purely accidental. We had actually decided to tear the cottage down and build a full-time home back in November 2019...
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