When a family business gets passed down from one generation to the next, it can be disastrous.
Knowing how much money your advisor makes for providing advice, making recommendations, and trading your securities should be important.
Many new issuers from all across Canada have seen the success and therefore want to explore the opportunities that the Quebec exempt market brings to the table. This is undoubtedly due to the continuation of growth, expansion and expertise as the years progress.
To set expectations for the future, we must first understand the past. Our history has been filled with power struggles and wars since the dawn of man, but something happened after WWII that set the stage for two major shifts.
The problem is good ones are hard to find. 98 aren’t right for the position, 2 seem good. The trap is spending weeks filtering and wasting hours each day trying to find a good candidate.
The first thing to remember is that investing has risks. Investments lose value or fail. Investors can lose money. This is true of almost any type of investment and particularly in a high-risk market. There will be gains, and there will be losses, as this is the nature of investing.
Many diversified portfolios or mutual funds have too many companies within them for anyone or any team to really be able to keep fully informed of these businesses with any adequate informed insight. This type of diversification is very risky.
Mental toughness is certainly one of the most valuable, most powerful models of enhancing mental wellness that is emerging as a potential major area of support for small business owners who wish to improve not only their own performance but that of their teams as well.
As the Canadian economy came out of the COVID constraints, we started to see new pressures on inflation. As of June 22, 2022, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based on May prices had consumer inflation rising 7.7% year-over-year, which is the largest yearly increase since January 1983.
In the 1930’s depression, much like the downturn of 2022, market technician Ralph Nelson Elliott made an interesting discovery. He noticed equity markets move in similar and replicating patterns with degrees of trend.
I often refer to capital or money as “fluid”. Over time investors globally find opportunities to make a return on their capital. Over the 12 years since the Financial Crisis, central bank interest rates had been particularly low, leading to interest rates across the fixed income universe to generally decline over that period.
How new initiatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan highlight the delicate Balance between capital formation and investor protection.
The world is in fact becoming more complex, more challenging, more competitive, and therefore bringing on more volatility to public markets and scaring investors with large upswings and downswings. So what does this all mean?
Sign up for our newsletter to receive a content roundup of our top trending blog posts of the month.
