Investors love to buy stocks, but selling is much harder. All too often pride, anxiety and neglect keep us hanging onto our losing stocks until it’s too late. To find the secrets of when to sell, MoneySense spoke with some top minds in the financial industry as well as regular Canadians managing their own portfolios
Regardless of whether gold prices are up or down, you should aim for a 5% portfolio weighting in gold as an “insurance position.”
After investing in high-fee mutual funds for years, Brenda and Kent Biggar parted ways with their adviser. Now they want to build a solid portfolio of individual dividend stocks they can manage on their own.
Establish your selling price from day one and stick to the plan that way you aren’t affected by market fluctuations.
If there’s anything the gold plunge has taught us it’s that there is no single asset class out there that can be considered a true “safe” haven.
Tapping growth opportunities in Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Qatar isn’t without risk.
American markets are at all-time highs and the economy is heating up. Time to load up on U.S. stocks?
There’s been a lot of debate as to whether I should recommend real estate as an investment, given predictions of a 20% drop in housing prices. To prove that real estate can still be a smart investment decision I’ve examined potential returns of both…and the results may surprise you.
Author of The Wealthy Barber shares a little-known investment secret: thrift conversions.
Buying a stock simply because it has done well in the past isn’t a good strategy.
