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Why Staying the Course Isn’t “Doing Nothing”
On Tuesday I linked to a poll of some 200 institutional investors who were asked about their outlook for global equity markets. The smart money seems [...]
So Much For the Consensus View
The Canadian stock market officially crossed into bear market territory this week, falling to more than 20% below its April high. We’ve already endure [...]
When Should You Use an Advisor?
Dan Solin’s excellent new book, The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own (see my review here), devotes several chapters to whether passive investors sho [...]
Review: The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own
There comes a time in every Couch Potato’s life when he or she has to answer a nagging question: can I do better? Sure, the three or four plain-vanill [...]
The Permanent Portfolio v. the Couch Potato
Let’s end the week with one final post about the Permanent Portfolio. Many readers expressed interest in this strategy, introduced by Harry Browne in [...]
Is Gold a Hedge Against Inflation?
In series of posts last week, I looked at Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio, which includes a hefty 25% allocation to gold. The reason for holding su [...]
Peering into the Permanent Portfolio
The Permanent Portfolio is an investment strategy created in the early 1980s by Harry Browne. It calls for investors to hold equal amounts of stocks, [...]
Golden Advice That Suits Any Investor
I receive a lot of press releases, but few are as useful as the one that hit my inbox on Friday. It arrived after the markets closed, so I wasn’t able [...]
Why More Choice Can Be Bad For Investors
We’re accustomed to thinking of choice as a good thing. But behavioural economists now understand that too many options can lead people to make poor d [...]
Lessons From the Last Decade
This has been a scary few months in the markets, and nervous investors may be tempted to second-guess their strategy. If you’re an indexer, you may be [...]
