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....
by Mark Bunting | Oct 4, 2021 | Big Picture, Canada, Financial Planning, Interviews, Investing, Stocks, United States, Videos
Som Seif doesn’t hold back in this answer to a viewer question about bonds from our recent Money Show. The founder & CEO of Purpose Investments gives some fascinating historical perspective about bond returns and explains why investors should steer...
