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Mar 2018The Wealth of Sapiens
“The most important money we spend is not the Lambo (the car) money. It’s avoiding-misery money.” – Daniel P. Egan What is wealth? For each of us it can mean many different things. I came across this thoughtful blog in which the author suggests that the true definition of wealth is when you have, ” … the option to buy what you truly need”. What is wealth? For…
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Feb 2018The Return of Normal
“In bear markets, stocks return to their rightful owners.” J.P. Morgan Welcome to the “new normal” in regard to volatility (to the downside) when it comes to the stock market. Coincidentally, it bears a striking resemblance to the “old normal”. The steady increase in markets around the world, with no significant corrections over the last couple of years, is most definitely not how stock markets…
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Jan 2018Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History?
“The more perspective you have, the better everything looks. And the less … the worse!” – Nick Murray It has been my tradition with these monthly missives to begin every year with a brief commentary on how our world is making tremendous progress on just about any metric you care to focus on. Unfortunately, it does seem many of us truly believe the planet is…
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Dec 2017Merry Christmas from Monty the Penguin
For each of the last ten years the British retailer, John Lewis, has aired what has become an iconic holiday season commercial. Although this year’s #MozTheMonster was clever, in my opinion nothing comes close to 2014’s, “Monty the Penguin”. Admittedly, it is a rather slick piece of marketing directly targeted to tug on our heart strings … and open up our wallets and purses! Having said…
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Jul 2017Why You Are Wealthy?
“Like all of life’s rich emotional experiences, the full flavor of losing important money cannot be conveyed by literature. You cannot convey to an inexperienced girl what it is truly like to be a wife and mother. There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin by words and pictures.” – Fred Schwed Jr. (Author of “Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?” First…
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Jun 2017The Success Circles
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made a difference that you lived at all.” Leo Rosten I have a wise friend who shared with me how he helps individuals…
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May 2017The Pyramid of Investment Success
What is the secret to multi-decade, inter-generational wealth creation? Fortunately, it can be summed up in one easy illustration I call “The Pyramid of Investment Success”. I am utterly convinced that over 80% of one’s long term investment success comes down to a single variable … one’s individual behaviour. In other words, for many of us, our single greatest enemy in our quest for wealth creation is the…
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Apr 2017When NOT To Invest
“Knowing what you don’t know is much more useful in life and business than being brilliant” – Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet’s older, and some would argue, smarter partner) I am convinced there are Canadians who can actually invest successfully themselves. However, like the Loch Ness Sea Monster, they are often sighted but rarely actually seen! For long term wealth creation you need to possess what I…
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Feb 2017Time To Feed The Goose 2017
“Taxes are our way of feeding the goose that lays the golden eggs of freedom, democracy and enterprise. Someone says, ‘Well, the goose eats too much!’ That’s probably true. But better a fat goose than no goose at all” – Jim Rohn As I have now begun to receive a flurry of tax “T-Statements” I realize, once again , it is that time of year…
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Jan 201799 Reasons 2016 Was a Good Year
“The progress of human knowledge will be rapid, and discoveries made of which we have no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known 100 years hence.” – Benjamin Franklin It has been my practice to begin each year’s “Wealth with Wisdom” with a focus on the many positive…
