Favouring Global Investments

July 25, 2018 |Nick Hamilton

Even our own Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) has moved to favor Global equities more recently which is a sizable shift from 10 years ago (reducing their Canadian equity exposure from 23.5% to 3.7% more recently).

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Annual Stock Market Returns and Intra-year Declines

February 16, 2018 |Nick Hamilton

The key observation being that these oscillations​​​​​​​ and volatility are normal for stocks and must be tolerated in order to benefit from the long term growth they can provide within your portfolio.

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Market Context Update - July 2017

July 07, 2017 |Nick Hamilton

In order to post a positive return so far this year you have needed good stock selection within Canada and/or the ownership of some US and Global stocks within your portfolio.

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Dividend Growth Investing

September 15, 2016 |Nick Hamilton

If we consider the tailwinds from demographics and the current yield environment for investments, the Dividend trade could remain in vogue for years to come

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