2016 is turning out to be a spectacular year for equity investors. 🙂 The Canadian S&P/TSX index is up 17% year to date, while the Dow Jones index in the United States is up 14%. Wow! That’s impressive even by historical standards. The markets have done an excellent job of beating expectations lately. 😀 We could even see the Dow hit… Read More »
The United Kingdom has a long history of innovation and creativity. The television, programmable computer, telephone, Mini, and even Calculus are all British inventions. The British government was the first to create a revolutionary missile called the civil servant – it doesn’t work, and it’s nearly impossible to fire.😄 The U.K. also gave us David Beckham, Adele, The Beatles, Emily Blunt, and Christian Bale… Read More »
A Shift in Focus Money can’t buy happiness. But it can help us look for it quicker, in a BMW. 😉 In order to maximize our chances to earn more money we have to reassess our investment strategies from time to time and be flexible to changing market conditions. Currently the price to earnings (P/E) multiple for the S&P 500 is around 25… Read More »
Once again North American stocks continue to impress. My liquid net worth (net financial assets) climbed 2.5% over the course of November, nearly $8,000 of gain on its own. Many people including myself thought a Donald Trump win for the presidency would trigger a stock market correction. Although the Dow Jones fell 800 points (about 4%) in pre-market trading the… Read More »
Finding the Appropriate Work-Life Balance Benjamin Franklin once said that “time is money.” I think he was being metaphorical. Otherwise ATMs would also be called time machines. 😄 But time is certainly like money in many ways. When we have it, we don’t know what to do with it all. And when we don’t, there’s a million things we need it for.… Read More »
More Millionaires The best way to make a lot of money is to work for the mint. 😄 But even if you don’t, chances are your finances have been improving. About 25,000 Canadians became millionaires in the past year according to a report released last week by Credit Suisse. The bank claims that there are currently 1,117,000 individual adults with net assets… Read More »