Pat McKeough
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We hope our Facebook page will become a place where Canadian investors go to share their thoughts on a range of financial topics. If you like the information and advice …read more »
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Our dailies aim to educate you on best practices in investing. They cover a wide range of investment topics, and explain conservative strategies you can use to build the best portfolio for you, and expand your wealth with less risk.
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Bond funds are mutual funds that invest specifically in different government and corporate bond offerings.
Many bond funds built great performance records in the last decade. You can find lots of bond funds that have yielded 6% or 8% or 10% over the past five or 10 years. This, though, was a function of the trend in interest rates; …read more »
Everybody knows it’s hard to beat the market over long periods. Fewer investors recognize that it’s easy to do a lot worse than the market. It’s especially easy if you fall for every new investment innovation that comes along.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are an investment innovation that has advantages over some alternatives, but can still lead to steep losses. ETFs give …read more »
The market downturn that began last month looks like a correction, rather than a bear market. It’s a crucial difference. A correction may last three to six months and shave 5% to 15% off the market. A bear market can last for years, and the toll on the market can run much deeper.
This downturn has already knocked 6% or so …read more »
Widely predicted financial calamities rarely do much harm to the market or economy. Even if the facts are correct, the calamity never materializes since the predictions give investors and businesses plenty of warning.
The best recent example was the late-1990s Y2K scare. It predicted a rash of computer failures for the start of the year 2000, since computers couldn’t distinguish 1900 …read more »
One of our main rules for successful investing is to spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities.
If you follow this rule, you improve your chances of making money no matter what happens in the market. For example, manufacturing stocks may suffer if …read more »
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I still haven’t come across anything to beat FAIR ISAAC INC. $44 (New York symbol FIC; WSSF Rating: Average), our “Stock of the Year” for aggressive investors in 2005. So for now, we’ll let Fair Isaac hang on to the Stock of the Year title for 2006.
Our Stocks of the Year, particularly Symantec (Nasdaq symbol SYMC) from 2000-2003 and Autodesk …read more »
