Benford’s Law states that in many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is not distributed uniformly. Instead the digit 1 tends to occur with a probability of 30.1%, 2 with a probability of 17.6% but 9 has a probability of just 4.6%. In an uniform distribution, you would expect the digits to occur with [...]
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Though the Canadian market makes up just 3.6% of the World stock markets, Canadian investors are justified in being overweight in our stock market for the following reasons[...]
The holdings page of the Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT) is a good place to obtain data on the regional weightings in the world stock markets. The ETF tracks the FTSE All World Index, which in turn tracks the performance of about 2,700 stocks in the U.S., Europe, Pacific, Emerging Markets and Canada. If [...]
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Edward Chancellor, author of an excellent book on past financial manias called Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (my review is available here), believes that investors will be grappling in the future with the bursting of a bubble, this time in China.
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) tried its best to beat back the charge by the Competition Bureau that CREA’s rules that limit the choice of consumers as “anti-competitive”.
If you are looking for free software for filing your taxes, you now have a choice to make.
In response to a recent post on auto and home insurance premiums going up in Ontario.
The real Ireland is rugged and friendly — without a plastic kis-me-I’m-Irish shamrock in sight.
How to prosper in the decade ahead.
Cheap stocks don’t mean a rebound is imminent.
