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There’s a fine line between truisms and clichés on the one hand, and great gems of knowledge on the other. Worse, that fine line keeps shifting. It depends on where you are, who you’re talking to, and the level of knowledge and manners of the people who are in on the conversation.
When you’re relatively new to a particular subject—investing, say—you run the risk of accepting a truism or cliché as a great gem of knowledge....
When you’re relatively new to a particular subject—investing, say—you run the risk of accepting a truism or cliché as a great gem of knowledge....
Hedge funds and others using activist investing strategies can push companies to higher levels of profit and efficiency
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We believe that Canadian investor education begins with recognizing what you know and what you don’t know, as well as an awareness of the most important qualities to look for in stocks
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A: NFTs, or “non-fungible tokens,” are an emerging, but highly speculative, investment. They’re focused on the belief that there is investment value in the relative scarcity of a cryptocurrency like bitcoin.
(Fungibility is the ability of a good or asset to be interchanged with other individual goods or assets of the same type....
(Fungibility is the ability of a good or asset to be interchanged with other individual goods or assets of the same type....
Watch out for Conflicts of Interest When Looking for Good Investment Ideas. Instead, use our Successful Investor approach.
On April 3, 2020, aerospace products-maker Raytheon Technologies Corp. spun off its Otis (elevators) and Carrier (heating and air conditioning) businesses to its shareholder. For each share they held, investors received 0.5 of a share in the new Otis and 1 share in Carrier.
Like many spinoffs, these new firms are off to a strong start—Carrier’s shares are up 212% since the spinoff, while Otis has gained 42%....
United Technologies (now Raytheon Technologies following its merger with Raytheon Co.) was our top Conservative pick for 2020. We liked that the merger, along with the spinoffs of Otis and Carrier, created a pure-play aerospace leader. Those moves also cut the old company’s exposure to commercial airline customers, many of which have reduced their spending on new equipment due to COVID-19’s spread.
Uncertainty over the pandemic has delayed some of the benefits of the transformation....
Uncertainty over the pandemic has delayed some of the benefits of the transformation....
In November 2016, Yum Brands set up its Chinese operations as Yum China and gifted its investors with shares in the new company. Specifically, investors received one share of the new firm for each YUM share they held.
The COVID-19 pandemic hurt the share price for both Yum Brands and its spinoff in 2020....