Category Archives: Investing

Learning to Fail Fast

Nobody likes to make mistakes. However, the simple reality of life is that at some point, all of us are going to be wrong, do something bad, or somehow screw something up. That's just life, and it has been since we learned how to walk, write out the alphabet, and do calculus. We ...

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What Is A Price To Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio)?

P/E Ratio, also known as the Price To Earnings Ratio, is a calculation that can indicate what the market expects the future earnings of a company to be. A high P/E Ratio likely shows that investors are expecting more future earnings growth than compared to a similar stock with a lower Price To ...

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Spouses Investing Together, Not As Individuals

One of the challenges of the privacy laws and the current regulatory system is the bias for spouses to invest on an individual basis, not for spouses investing together.  I’ve written in the past about how this is causing all investing to look the same. When a couple goes in ...

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Canadian Royalty Trusts

The instability of the stock market has investors looking for stable high yield investments. Canadian Royalty Trusts are a great alternative to traditional stocks. A Canadian Royalty Trust, also known as a CanRoy, is a corporate trust that is set up to legally bypass high corporate taxes in order ...

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Investing IN Retirement Is Different Than Investing FOR Retirement

I just got back from speaking to a group of industry professionals (Registered Deposit Brokers Association –RDBA) about how investing IN retirement is different than investing FOR retirement. I think investing FOR retirement is a well-covered topic.  This makes sense because the majority of Canadians are still not retired and ...

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