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Europe on the cheap
Paul Ehrlichman can’t wait to see Greece finally default. “The country’s a fraud,” he says. “There is no hope.” With a one-year government bond yielding more than 100%, it’s as if the country has already defaulted, explains the head of global equity for Delaware-based Global Currents Investment Management. The sooner it goes under, the sooner Europe can start healing. But until...
Outlook 2011: Investor playbook (RRSPs)
If you heard a giant sigh of relief when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s, it likely came from Canadian investors, thankful that 2010 had come to an end. The year was a trying one. After shooting up by nearly 3,500 points in 2009, the market climbed only about 1,500 points last year. Daily talk of a double dip, soaring sovereign debt and uncertainty around the global economy’s...
Investing Guide 2011: Global markets – Many happy returns
Over the past decade, investors would have been wise to stick to Canadian stocks. The S&P/TSX composite index saw a 10–year annualized return of 4.4%, while the MSCI EAFE — an index that measures equity market performance of developed countries outside North America — shrank 1.3%. But the good times can’t last forever, especially when the United States, our biggest trading partner,...
Tech stocks on fire
It was just last January that a beaming Steve Jobs ambled onto the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts in San Francisco and asked a capacity crowd of Apple fans, tech geeks and celebrities this question: “Is there room for something between a laptop and a smartphone?” The audience sat silent, hanging on the Apple CEO’s every word until he revealed what everyone came...
Stocks: Small is beautiful
Getting a 400% return on an investment in less than three years is a pretty remarkable feat, even for a seasoned value investor like Irwin Michael. He has the small cap stock Fortress Paper (TSX: FTP) to thank. In 2007, Michael, president of Toronto’s I.A. Michael Investment Counsel and manager of ABC Funds, began loading up on the Vancouver–based specialty paper manufacturer at prices...
Lovin’ the dividends
It was just seven years ago that McDonald’s revealed the slogan that would eventually underpin its most successful ad campaign ever: “I’m lovin’ it.” Those exuberant words were usually delivered with an infectious jingle and shots of happy customers chowing down on sloppy Big Macs. They were aimed at consumers, but these days many investors are singing the same ditty....
10 stocks to grow old with
Bill Turnbull is the living definition of the phrase “long-term investor.” The 89-year-old former bank manager has been saving money for more than 40 years — starting in the late 1960s, when his kids were young and his mortgage was new. Turnbull’s investment style has evolved over the years, but since the ’90s he has focused almost exclusively on blue-chip stocks that pay juicy...
Foreign stocks: Europe’s meltdown
Just when you thought it was safe to worry about something other than the fragile global economy, along comes the worst financial crisis Europe has seen in years. The panic set in on April 27, when Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s credit score to junk status. Since then, the MSCI Euro index — the eurozone benchmark — has dropped 10%, creating global concerns about...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, PROFIT, MoneySense and the Advisor Group. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and recently co-authored