When choosing a potential investment to put our money in it’s important to look at all the usual financial metrics like profitability, management, history, and forecasts. But a less conventional measurement to consider and is usually harder to quantify, is employee sentiment. 😀 The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, which has more than $4.65 trillion of investments under… Read More »
Last week I blogged about how renewable energy is the cat’s jammies right now. It’s growing rapidly all over the world and may be one of the best investing opportunities of our life time. 🙂 Today we’ll take a closer look at how to invest in them. Why Invest in Renewable Energy In 2005 cell phone manufacturers didn’t have a clue… Read More »
Nobody wants to see a disastrous oil spill. But when there’s a large solar energy spill, we just call it a nice day. 😀 Investing in green energy has been a tough sell in the past because it wasn’t economically viable. But we have reached an inflection point where the a risk vs reward for renewable energy has become an attractive option for… Read More »
Sell in May and go away. It’s typical for stock markets to fall in May and that’s exactly what happened this year in Canada. Since stocks make up a quarter of my net worth, a 2% decline to the TSX Composite translates into thousands of dollars of paper loss for my investment portfolio. If this was a normal month my… Read More »