Negative events in the media may cause people to react emotionally and lose sight of their investment strategy. In the past three decades alone, there have been a number of events that may have kept investors on the sidelines. When you look at the big picture, over the last 30 calendar years, the S&P/TSX Composite […]
Trying to time the market may cause an investor to miss out on long-term growth. Let’s take a look at the impact of missing the best one % of days over 30 years while investing $10,000 in S&P/TSX Composite Price Index (“TSX”) As history of the markets has demonstrated, during previous bear markets, Canadian equities […]
Breaking Up is Hard to Do A year ago, it seemed likely that debt-ridden Greece would be the first country to exit the 28-country European Union (EU). However, that distinction now looks likely to go to the United Kingdom (UK). In the British leave/remain referendum held on June 23rd, voters decided that Britain should leave […]
The Headlines May Trigger Excuses Not to Invest
Negative events in the media may cause people to react emotionally and lose sight of their investment strategy. In the past three decades alone, there have been a number of events that may have kept investors on the sidelines. When you look at the big picture, over the last 30 calendar years, the S&P/TSX Composite […]