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This is a Big Change (part 3)

March 29, 2021 |Charles F. Lasnier

In the past few weeks the market has rallied however we have seen the biggest impact for balanced investors on the fixed income side and especially in the rise of long-term interest rates.

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This is a big change

March 17, 2021 |Charles F. Lasnier

Chart of the day: Bank of Canada became biggest holder of Goverment of Canada bonds.

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Price is what you pay but value is what you get, part 2

March 09, 2021 |Charles . F. Lasnier

Yesterday, I wrote that news is dominated by short-term happenings in a complicated world where things change and new concerns pop up on a daily basis.

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Part 2 : Is the Market too high? Some concrete examples

December 07, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

In my most recent e-mail, I spoke about why I didn't see the markets being particularly high, despite the ever-present possibility of a correction, on a macro level.

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Happy birthday Warren Buffett

August 30, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

Warren Buffett turned 90 years old. He remains the Oracle of Omaha and I wish him a long and healthy life.

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“Never let a good crisis go to waste ” Part 1

May 19, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

It’s being two weeks since I wrote my last memo but I’ve been thinking about writing about the following for a while. In the same vein as the old political saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste ”.

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Why staying the course is harder than it looks part 3

April 24, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

In this last part of my staying the course series, I’d like to take a minute to discuss an argument/lamentation that I often hear from investors.

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Why staying the course is harder than it looks part 2: “Stock markets don’t make money, companies do”

April 23, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

This market reminds me of the movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray wakes up every day to relive the same groundhog day over and over. 

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Why staying the course is harder than it looks - Part 1

April 22, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

This confinement business is harder than it looks for many of us.

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Explained: the price of oil in a couple of graphs

April 21, 2020 |Charles F. Lasnier

In one of my previous e-mails (that of March 9th) I spoke to you about the price of a barrel of oil.

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