Welcome to my Weekend Reading edition, I hope you enjoy some of these great articles over the next few days. All the best and see you here next week!
Jonathan Chevreau wondered why CPP is betting on active management. He cited Andrew Coyne’s comments here: “Active management is a crock. To consistently beat the market within a given asset class, a fund manager must be consistently smart and well-informed, he must be consistently smarter and better-informed than all the other smart and well-informed managers out there, all of whom are trying to do the same. That’s vanishingly unlikely.”
Rob Carrick with help from Alexandra Macqueen suggested folks with defined benefit pension plans should dump their bonds.
Here are a few stocks with momentum according to 5iResearch.
Soon you’ll know exactly what you’re getting for your money.
The Arbor Investment Planner packaged the iconic The Intelligent Investor into 30 minutes of reading here.
Last but not least, a sincere thank you to Sheryl Smolkin for the interview this week. I hope to post a link to my interview with her in a few weeks.
Thanks for the mention. Glad you enjoyed the rant 🙂 Sometimes I come up with good material on the fly…
It was a good one for sure!
Thanks for the mention and the kind words. I wasn’t sure if people would like the gas-siphoning analogy, but it seemed to go over well.
A great post Michael, enjoyed it. Stay dry this weekend!
Thanks for the mention as well Mark. Welcome to the Fall in Ottawa!
As for RESPs, shop around parents, and make sure you have flexibility to invest in what you want!
Well said, shop around!
Thank you for including “The Intelligent Investor Book Review in 30 Minutes” Mark!
No sweat Ken!
Thanks for the mention, Mark! Enjoy the weekend – hopefully you have nicer weather out east than we currently do here
All the best Dan!