Hilliard’s Weekend Notebook


Thoughts, views and opinions as current events unfold: With topics taken from current market events and my latest book — When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash (Dundurn: March 2015)  and my first book Investment Traps and How to Avoid Them (1999) — this short piece will give you unique and valuable insights filtered by my thirty-six years’ experience as an investment professional.
 

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Buy the dip is a questionable strategy

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Feb 28, 2020

The stock market has started to react negatively to COVID-19 spreading outside of China. Markets are down about 10 percent from the peak valuations of mid-February 2020. During a steep correction, it has been profitable to buy stocks. This is called “buying... Read more
Elon Musk plans to disrupt broadband internet access

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Feb 21, 2020

Space-X is launching telecommunication satellites that will become a network called Starlink. Starlink will bring high-speed, low-cost broadband internet to the world, starting in mid-2020. The requirements to use Starlink are the purchase of a pizza-box-sized... Read more
The stock market looks past the new coronavirus

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Feb 14, 2020

The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China is causing worry all over the world, as the virus appears to cause severe sickness in about 20 percent of confirmed cases, and death in about 2 percent. The stock market is near record high levels, having... Read more
Guest post: Retirement and planning

Published by Jonathan MacLeod on Feb 07, 2020

One dilemma that most people eventually face is the decision of when to retire. There are the obvious financial factors that drive this decision as well as some factors that receive much less attention such as health, lifestyle, and psychological. Given... Read more