... This year the company, Western Union, will transfer over $80-billion (U.S.) and handle 225 million transactions ...

... But I recently made an exception to my commodity-sector aversion when I purchased shares in Joy Global Inc. Joy is a Milwaukee-based company that makes high-productivity mining equipment ...

… Markets will forever continue to oscillate between the extremes of panic and greed. The common thread is that at both extremes, most people ignore valuations to their peril and become transfixed with stock price movements. It has happened for centuries and will continue to as it is simply in ...

... I am constantly surprised by many investors’ fixation on dividend yields – a tendency that I believe is misguided ...

... Many people fear the Canadian housing market is doomed to crash – and those fears are reflected in the stock price of Home Capital Group Inc., Canada’s largest non-traditional mortgage lender ...

… One of the keys to being successful at investing over the long term is to stick to businesses and industries within your circle of competence. Put another way, you should invest only in businesses that you know and understand ...

... Financial calamity and market panic always draw me in for a closer look ...

… Another key success factor in investing is being able to come to your own conclusions based on thorough research, hard work and proper reasoning. Conventional wisdom is often but not always correct. The difference is important ...

… One mistake that people often make is to assume that the stock markets will decline when the economy is in recession or one is forecasted. Being a math geek I went back and looked at the correlation between US GDP and US stock market returns over the past 80 ...

… The GreensKeeper Value Fund is my painting. I will have the bulk of my family’s capital invested alongside my clients. I am truly blessed to be able to wake up in the morning and do what I love to do for a living. I will do my very best ...