Is there such a thing as a guaranteed rate of return? There seems to be a trend for people to “flock to safety” by buying certificates of deposit (CDs) or their Canadian equivalent, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs). There is no risk if a capital loss, at least in nominal terms. However, money is [...]
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Getting Screwed Out of Your Hard-Earned Capital: How CDs and GICs Are Rip-Offs for Long-term Investing
39 Comments Kevin on May 9th 2012
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The CAPE: How to Beat Stocks With a 50–50 Portfolio
This is a guest post by Mathieu Bouville, PhD What on Earth is the CAPE? The price-earnings ratio (P/E) is a common tool for valuing a stock or a group of stock (such as an index). A difficulty is that there are multiple choices for the earnings. One generally uses forecasts, but these are basically [...]
25 Comments Guest on Oct 5th 2011
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The Biggest Unknown Risk of Stock Investing
The following is a guest post by Rob Bennett, who writes at A Rich Life. Most people think of stocks as being “risky.” But not too risky. Most people think it is prudent to go with a stock allocation of 60 percent, 70 percent, or even 80 percent. They cannot think of stocks as being [...]
52 Comments Guest on Sep 21st 2011
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Adam’s Golf: A Balanced Micro Cap Golf Stock
The following is a guest post by JT McGee of MoneyMamba: Adam’s Golf (ADGF) is the micro-cap of all micro capitalization stocks—you could buy the company outright for just over $42 million dollars. But while its small size may be threatening to some, it is important to remember that sometimes the biggest earners come in the [...]
20 Comments Guest on Apr 14th 2011
It was only last year that I wrote a post about the Canadian dollar hitting parity, something that was quite a feat considering that it was digging around 60-70 cents back in the early 2000s. Parity is exciting to Canadians, because it makes us feel that our dollar has real purchasing power, and at the [...]
35 Comments Kevin on Apr 12th 2011
