by Mark Bunting | Oct 12, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Disruption, Financial Planning, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, Technology, Videos
In the final instalment of our Investment Series, Som Seif and John O’Connell answer a viewer question about cryptocurrency and blockchain. Seif explains why he’s bullish on digital while O’Connell believes the Ethereum platform has intriguing...
by Mark Bunting | Oct 8, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Financial Planning, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, Videos
In the penultimate video of our Investment Series, Som Seif and John O’Connell give advice to a viewer who asked how to position his portfolio for a rising interest rate environment in an expensive stock market. They discuss active strategy, short...
by Mark Bunting | Oct 7, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Financial Planning, Interviews, Investing, Videos
We established in a previous video in our Investment Series why a 40 per cent bond weighting in a portfolio is the “stupidest and worst” strategy an investor could deploy. Som Seif’s words, not ours, but you get the point. In this segment,...
by Mark Bunting | Oct 6, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Disruption, Financial Planning, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, Technology, Videos
The stock market is not a casino and investing is not gambling. That may sound like a crusty, way out of fashion sentiment. But Som Seif and John O’Connell, who’s lived through the market’s worst 20 days over the last 35 years, know the way to...
by Mark Bunting | Oct 5, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Financial Planning, Healthcare, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, Technology, Top Ideas, United States, Videos
Bond investors, as they often do, got it right in the third quarter by anticipating a slowdown in economic growth due to the Delta variant. Bonds generally rose in value while their yields fell. Now, those same bonds are indicating a pickup in growth this...
by Mark Bunting | Oct 5, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Financial Planning, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, Videos
You’re 65. You’ve got a two million dollar portfolio. You don’t want to manage your investments anymore. But you can’t find an investment advisor that clicks with you. Most of all you don’t want to run into a Bernie Madoff type....
