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The month on the stock market has been quite hectic but it seems that earnings are bringing back some calm to the Street. We see that after January 20th, the market started to bounce back after good earnings’ reports. It is still unclear if we will suffer a bear market or are just going through a correction with greater volatility. On the Canadian stock market, we hit the -20% return from the TSX summit of 2015 and can technically call it a bear market. However, we don’t need much to turn …

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When investing for your retirement, be sure of one thing; the investment should allow you to sleep well at night. When you build a retirement portfolio, the very first thing you want is to buy solid companies that will be there for the next 50 years. A classic quote from Warren Buffett was that he always pick shares of a company that he would feel good about even if the stock market had to close for 10 years. In other words; the world’s most successful investor doesn’t pick up the flavor of the …

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Canadians are now more confused than ever as to whether or not they should invest in the US market. There are many factors playing in the investor's mind at the moment. Before we tackle the currency challenge, let’s take a look at how both the US and Canadian markets did over the past 10 years: source: Ycharts As you can see, while the Canadian market had its moment of glory between 2008 and 2012, the US market easily crushed the Canadian market since then. The reason is quite simple; the …

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After long procrastination, I’ve finally decided to manage my kids tuition investment account (called an RESP in Canada). I have roughly $10,000 saved in this account and it was invested in mutual funds until recently. Over the past three years, I’ve crushed the fund managers performance and this is why I decided to take over. I then transferred the money into my brokerage account before the Holidays and waited… It was good timing since the market has kept dropping since then. At the beginning …

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