Canadian Capitalist

In his book, Active Value Investing, Vitaliy Katsenelson makes a compelling argument that equity markets are now trapped in a range-bound market that he estimates will last until 2020 or so. In the first part of the book, he makes the case that secular bull markets are usually followed by secular range-bound markets, in which [...]

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First off, I would like to thank the author Danielle Park for furnishing a copy of her book for review. A lawyer and money manager, Ms. Park likens investing, which can be remarkably volatile and full of risk, to lit dynamite and a money manager’s role to that of a professional dynamite juggler. There is [...]

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William Bernstein, a practising physician, has written an excellent guide to investing (affiliate link) that contains important (as the sub-title says) “lessons for building a winning portfolio”. The four pillars that the title refers to are theory, history, psychology and business of investing.
Often, books on investing are dry and reading them is a bit like [...]

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You are probably not surprised to hear that I liked John Bogle’s message in the latest in The Little Book series (aff link). Mr. Bogle has been preaching the virtues of indexing for more than three decades and founded Vanguard to enable investors to put his message into practise. Many of the arguments that Mr. [...]

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The publicist for author Daniel Solin sent a copy of the Canadian edition of his book (listed at $26 and available from Amazon.ca), which is subtitled The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals, for review. The author defines “smart investing” as constructing a passive portfolio of index funds and rebalancing it periodically. The [...]

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Margot Bai, the author of this new book kindly agreed to send me a copy for review. The idea behind the book is to show people how to save money by spending smartly on their biggest expenses like a home or a car, unlike other popular books that suggest that you should cut out small [...]

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The publicist for the author Sandra Sexton kindly sent me a copy of the book for review. Subtitled Learn what every Canadian should know about RSPs, stocks, mutual funds & more!, the author says that the book fills “a need for simple, concise, unbiased information for the novice investor.”
The book starts off on a correct [...]

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You might be reminded of the “hands in my pocket” commercial (or Rick Mercer’s “knee in my package” skit, as one commenter recently pointed out) when you think about our chartered banks. The banks tend to have a finger in every financial pie and some of their massive profits come directly out of the pockets [...]

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I picked up a copy of this book at Costco and I am thoroughly under whelmed after plodding through its 330 pages. It is very nice to know that in exchange for a mere $21.19, Mr. Trump and Mr. Kiyosaki want us to be rich beyond our wildest dreams but if you are looking for [...]

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I picked up this book on the recommendation of a reader and I am glad I did. The author, John Lawrence Reynolds, delivers a scathing criticism of the investment industry in Canada for being more interested in lining its pockets than its fiduciary responsibility towards the average investor. The subtitle of the book Why Almost [...]

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