Investing Strategy: Less Liquid Stocks Give Better Returns

It seems counter-intuitive and goes against the flow to pick stocks that are less liquid i.e. whose trading volume is less in absolute terms...

What Long Term Return Can We Expect from the TSX?

In our last post we noted that the level of stock prices, or stock valuation, versus dividends, earnings and Q (replacement value of corpor...

Are Stocks Risky in the Long Run?

Stocks go up and down but inevitably they eventually gain, right? Not everyone agrees and the dispute has been simmering for years even amon...

How Many Stocks to Create a Diversified Portfolio, or Should You Even Try?

Investment theory, and intuition, tell us that risk is reduced by diversification - not putting everything in one basket by holding more tha...

Investing Implications of a Globalized World

Every day brings news of bank or government debt crisis development in Greece, Spain or some other far away country that seems to dictate ho...