By: Isaac Lempriere From reading the headlines around SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) it is clear that as an investment they mean many different things to many different people. For hawkish investors like Jeremy Grantham, they are a “reprehensible...
By: Wayne Edelist One lazy weekend this past summer, I took my laptop out to the backyard to indulge myself in some reading. There had been an email from Ray Dalio’s www.Principles.com website, highlighting that the latest chapter of his forthcoming book “The Changing...
By: Terry Vaughan Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life....
A lesson on predictions. Below is an excerpt from Mo Lidsky’s latest book, Partners in Preservation. With the advent of countless technologies that have put infinitely more information at our fingertips, we have become no better at economic predictions. There...
Product vs. Process By: Mo Lidsky Conflicts of interest is an important topic we educate our clients on. It is far too often, especially in Canada, that clients are offered investment products rather than an investment process. For example, many investments which are...
Below is an excerpt from Mo Lidsky, which was recently referenced in the Globe & Mail, on both the positive impacts and shortcomings of the new CRM 2 legislation for investors. Fee transparency for financial professionals is long overdue in Canada. In fact, we are...
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