MacDonald Advisory Team

Market volatility fatigue

May 17, 2022 |Alan MacDonald

The last two years have been tough for everyone. We’ve been through a once-in-a-100-year pandemic that seems to just keep coming up with new variants. Politics have become more bitter and divisive than ever, with conspiracy theories and fake news flourishing...

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...

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...

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...

Managing your portfolio only gets tougher after you retire

December 15, 2021 |Alan MacDonald

For most of us, investing is all about saving money and building as much wealth as we can while we’re still working. But for many investors, the biggest decisions we’ll make in our financial lives come when we finally make the move from accumulating assets...

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...

Are you invested in being right?

July 26, 2021 |Alan MacDonald

One of the worst bad habits I’ve seen many investors exhibit is a tendency to focus on all the reasons why what they’re doing should work out perfectly, rather than spending any time exploring why it might not. In behavioural finance circles, this is...

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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