Bloomberg News | January 16, 2019

Canada Bond Issuers Jump on Domestic and International Windows Esteban Duarte, Bloomberg News View Article

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly| November 2018

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” Benjamin Graham Although November marks the Day of Remembrance, for most credit managers it was a month they’d rather forget. To borrow an analogy from investment guru Ben Graham, Mr. Credit Market’s mood went from […]

Don’t Fight The Fed| October 2018

“Every time we do something great, he raises the interest rates.” Donald Trump To get the bad Hallowe’en puns and movie references out of the way, Red October offered investors more tricks than treats. The S&P and TSX were down over 6%, and bond funds posted negative results on the back of higher rates. The […]

Who’s The Boss?| September 2018

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.” Bill Gates On the list of things not to lose, our jobs typically rank pretty high. That’s why, as our mothers encouraged us to, we come to work ready to do our best. But sometimes doing the ‘best’ […]

Concentration Hacks For The Busy Investor| August 2018

“I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.” Stanley Druckenmiller Last month, we looked at the trend in wealth management of constructing more diverse portfolios as a means of risk reduction. We even drudged up Peter Lynch’s term, ‘diworsification,’ in reflecting on the risks of diversification for […]