Friday, 6 June 2025

The Reluctant Investor's Lifelong Portfolio - a Portfolio Inspired by, and for, Albert Einstein

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" Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. " Albert Einstein In a 30 May 2014 post we defined what a por...
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Sunday, 12 January 2025

Wind blows away capital, Solar burns it away, EVs run down the juice

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 In his recent post on WUWT Why are Renewable Equipment Companies Such Poor Investments? Steve Goreham shows us that virtually no publicly ...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

A Modest Proposal for preventing seniors in Canada from being a burden to their children or country ... 2024

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It is a melancholy object spectacle to those, who walk through this great town  Canadian cities, or travel in the country, when they see t...
Tuesday, 20 December 2022

ESG, a good idea gone bad

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Some years ago we praised the assessment of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors to evaluate  potential investments. Now we un...
Thursday, 9 June 2016

Retirement Risks - Unexpected Events: Family Trouble, House Repairs, Bankruptcy, Funerals, Divorce etc

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Bad things with significant negative financial effects can and do happen in retirement, not just occasionally but often. The 2015 survey ...
Sunday, 31 January 2016

Long Term Interest Rate Outlook: Persistently Low

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In our last post we explored how much interest rates would need to rise to justify holding off purchasing an annuity by five years. It wasn...
Thursday, 5 November 2015

How Much do Interest Rates Need to Rise for Deferral of Annuity Purchase to Make Sense?

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When interest rates are higher, annuity payouts are higher. The big question is, exactly how much would interest rates need to rise in order...