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Is market level relevant? If you’re an investor, not a speculator, market predictions are futile

Investing for Fun and Profit with Herman VanGenderen

By Herman VanGenderen October 15, 2018

I am about to question one of the sacred beliefs of market pundits. It is my belief that market level isn’t very important to our investing success. What? Does that make sense? First, let’s look at how accurate market predictions tend to be. Reading about the topic leads me to believe the prediction success rate […] Read more

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Cash flow is king. A simple measurement that helps you evaluate a company

Investing for Fun and Profit with Herman VanGenderen

By Herman VanGenderen September 17, 2018

What’s more important than profits? Well of course family, friends and health, but what about in a business? My favorite valuation measure is actually cash flow. Everyone has heard the saying that “cash is king.” At today’s interest rates I would argue that cash is a waste of money, but cash flow is king! Most […] Read more

*10-year growth compares 2017 to 2008. Example, Royal Bank’s 2017 dividend was 1.8 times larger than in 2008.

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Sorting through the mumbo jumbo of financial investments

Herman VanGenderen puts his model portfolio to the  test for Grainews readers

By Herman VanGenderen August 8, 2018

There is a lot of mumbo jumbo surrounding the stock investing field, and quite frankly a large amount of horse exhaust as well. Let’s cut through a bunch of that, in this and the next column, to illuminate what’s really important to us as independent investors. I have taken the portfolio I described in my […] Read more

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Starting your self-managed accounts

Getting accounts started is a simple as a visit to your local bank

By Herman VanGenderen July 6, 2018

So you have emptied your piggy bank, read my book, and are now motivated to start a stock investing account. Or you already have accounts at a few different places and want to consolidate them to start managing yourself. Perhaps you are working with a financial advisor but want to take more control. How do […] Read more

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Where in the world should we invest?

Time to get down to the details and choose the stocks for your TFSA portfolio

By Herman VanGenderen May 30, 2018

With the groundwork for international diversification laid in my previous column, let’s now complete “construction” of a prospective TFSA portfolio begun on March 27. This prospective portfolio would be suitable for an account of $15,000 to $57,500, the current maximum TFSA contribution if you hadn’t made a previous contribution, and you were 18 years of […] Read more

The approach I take is similar to constructing a strong building. It starts with a solid foundation, then the best materials for the walls and the roof.

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How do we start building, secretively?

Get started soon, with a small portfolio, to build financial returns for your future 

By Herman VanGenderen April 4, 2018

Have you kept our secret? You know, our secret about building wealth over time in the stock market. The secret that it’s about buying common shares in solid companies, and holding them for a long time. The longer we can keep this secret the more time we will have to build our portfolios, before others catch on. But […] Read more

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Shh… don’t tell anybody. It’s our secret

Using a Tax Free Savings Account to build your off-farm investment portfolio

By Herman VanGenderen March 23, 2018

Of the three main tax-advantaged programs: Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts, TFSAs are quickly becoming the investment program of choice for Canadians. Personally I have taken full advantage of all three programs, because it’s hard to beat investment returns inside a tax-free program. The simplicity and flexibility of […] Read more

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Investing risk and skepticism

Guarding Wealth: Investing with skepticism, not a crystal ball, makes for healthy off-farm portfolios 

By Andrew Allentuck March 19, 2018

Investing, in the broadest sense, is about predicting what will be valuable in future. A century and a half ago, railroads knit nations together. Then came airplanes. Along the way, the greatest empires of central Europe — Germany and Austria — perished, China sank and rose again to produce dollar billionaires faster than any other […] Read more

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Index investing versus buying mutual funds

Guarding Wealth: To get diversification in your portfolio you have to pay for it, but not every mix works

By Andrew Allentuck December 6, 2017

There is an old saying that you can’t beat the market. Famed investor Warren Buffett has said, “Mr. Market always wins.” One school of investing agrees that, given you can’t beat the market, you might as well join it. That is the birth of index investing: the concept of buying index funds packed in exchange […] Read more

Off-farm investing is intended to spread risk and produce alternative income. Investing spare cash  from farm profits in an agricultural commodity is not really diversifying.

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Investing: taking risks in the new economy

Old economy, new economy. Finding safe off-farm investments in a perilous world

By Andrew Allentuck August 4, 2017

It is the question closest to the hearts and digestions of most investors: How long can the good times last? The tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite index was up 26.3 per cent for the 12-month period ending June 7, 2017. Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite Index rose a modest 7.7 per cent in the same period, restrained by flagging […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

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U.S. grains: Soy futures set six-week low as China buys Argentine cargoes, snubs U.S.

U.S. livestock: Hogs rally ahead of USDA report

Canadian Barley Research Coalition pledges $1.8 million to USask Crop Development Centre

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Is market level relevant? If you’re an investor, not a speculator, market predictions are futile

Cash flow is king. A simple measurement that helps you evaluate a company

Sorting through the mumbo jumbo of financial investments

Starting your self-managed accounts

Where in the world should we invest?

How do we start building, secretively?

Shh… don’t tell anybody. It’s our secret

Investing risk and skepticism

Index investing versus buying mutual funds

Investing: taking risks in the new economy

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