Monthly Archives: December 2019

Ontario investors missing millions in Paramount Equity collapse

Another day, another tragic story about too-good-to-be-true return hopes, financial loss and devasted life plans.  Ten percent is not a sustainable return objective, and far too risk-seeking for retirement funds.  Yet many people still make such presumptions.  This is a … Continue reading

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Typical investment behaviors lead to typical losses

A decade-long expansion in financial markets driven by relentless central bank largesse and corporations ploughing in cash to bid up their own shares has come at a heavy cost.  Not only have extreme valuations and slowing growth wrought anemic and … Continue reading

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Goldman Sachs (finally) urges carbon pricing and action on human sustainability

This week, Goldman Sachs joined more than a dozen of the world’s largest banks in announcing policy changes to help human sustainability, including that it will no longer finance new oil projects in the Arctic where President Donald Trump and … Continue reading

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