by TallKirk | Nov 4, 2022 | Investments, Quick Reads
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) refers to two different investment strategies, one of which is hardcore and one of which is not hardcore. Sometimes when people say DCA, they’re talking about regularly investing a set amount into the market every two weeks or every month,...
by TallKirk | Oct 11, 2022 | Investments, Quick Reads
The best way to reduce your risk of losing money in the market is to: 1. Invest in different buckets of assets that reliably grow over time 2. Regularly rebalance between those buckets 3. Hold your investments for as long as possible In the next two months, the market...
by TallKirk | Aug 27, 2022 | Investments, Quick Reads
Are you taking too much risk with your investments? Or not nearly enough? You hear a lot about risk tolerance. But I think it’s far more important to be able to calibrate your risk. To understand whether you need to be more aggressive or less aggressive to get the...
by TallKirk | Aug 19, 2022 | Investments, Quick Reads
You shouldn’t have all your investments in the Canadian stock market. If you were British, would you have all your investments in the UK market? What if you were Chinese, Brazilian, or Russian? Would seem kinda risky, wouldn’t it? The Canadian market is no different....
by TallKirk | May 28, 2022 | Investments, Quick Reads
Some of the best investors I know don’t check the markets regularly. Most of the time they don’t look because they don’t care. They’re not day traders. They’re long-term investors who are going to continue to invest regularly for the foreseeable future regardless of...
by TallKirk | Feb 25, 2022 | Be Your Own Advisor, Insurance, Investments
When you go to buy something, there are three doors you can take. But you’re only aware of two. And the third door, which no one ever talks about, is better because it blends the best bits of the first two. We’ll get to door number three, but let’s start...
