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    July 18, 2019 - From skinny jeans to aviator sunglasses, modern fashion is littered with trends - some a flash-in-the-pan and some enduring.  (more…)

    July 9, 2019 - They say that May showers bring June flowers and with value’s underperformance in May, investors were hoping that June would bring a subsequent turnaround in value performance. (more…)

  June 27, 2019 - The “hot hand” phenomenon occurs when a person who experiences a successful attempt has a greater chance, or positive momentum, in successful further attempts.  (more…)

June 18, 2019 - “Own only high quality stocks” is an oft-repeated investment mantra. (more…)

June 12, 2019 - Stock market returns in May were volatile, with the S&P 500 down -6.4% and the S&P / TSX Composite down -3.1%. (more…)

May 23, 2019 - One hundred and ten years ago, a successful laboratory experiment run by chemist Fritz Haber revolutionized the agricultural industry worldwide. (more…)

May 8, 2019 -  We had previously warned investors not to invest in stocks based on their dividend yields in a recent piece entitled “Whatever You Do, Don’t Invest Based On Dividend Yield”. (more…)

April 23, 2019 - Fundraising for the private equity industry has been knocking it out of the park over the past number of years, with $3 trillion raised from investors since 2012. As one private equity firm remains on track to raise the largest leveraged…

April 18, 2019 - The classic thinking that many amateur investors, and even some professionals, have is that if you buy a stock with a high dividend yield, you should do well in the markets. Certainly, there is no shortage of dividend-investing hype and catch…

April 9, 2019 - The story goes that Joe Kennedy, near the peak of the market in 1929, started to receive unsolicited stock tips from his shoeshine boy. Kennedy’s thinking was that if the shoeshine boy was long of stocks, who else was there to…