This week on the Down to Business podcast, Financial Post’s

Gabriel Friedman talked to Tariq Fancy

, former chief investment officer for sustainable investing at BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, with almost $9 trillion under management. Today, he runs an educational non-...

https://financialpost.com/investing/heres-why-the-former-head-of-sustainable-investing-at-blackrock-says-dont-believe-the-esg-marketing-hype

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With the 2020 tax season behind us, the focus should now turn to how to minimize taxes on investment income for 2021. A good place to start is ensuring your TFSA is fully topped up. This year, you can contribute another $6,000 to your TFSA, bringing the cumulative contribution limit to $75,500 for ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/jamie-golombek-always-check-your-junk-mail-onus-is-on-the-taxpayer-to-monitor-tfsa-overcontribution-notices

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Collecting Toronto Raptors rookie cards wasn’t a top priority growing up in a single-parent family for Jayevan Foster, now a Canadian Football League agent based in Hamilton. But he wants to be ahead of the game with the rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are being used to sell player ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/digital-collectibles-are-all-the-rage-but-bubbly-signs-might-just-scare-some-investors-off

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BMO Capital Markets Chief Investment Strategist Brian Belski speaks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn in the video below about inflation and how the markets are “excessively” reactive and emotional.

These important, but forgotten, issues might just become the next big ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/brian-belski-where-to-invest-in-excessively-emotional-markets

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The Logic’s Murad Hemmadi speaks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about Shopify’s latest earnings and breaks down some of the firm’s major plans, including the launch of financial services and a fulfilment centre.

Shopify stock is surging as results signal online ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/after-blockbuster-earnings-shopify-plots-its-next-big-move

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There are many who feel theres a tragedy of epic proportions brewing in the stock market. The problem is we humans tend to have short memories and therefore expect the future to replicate the recent past.

Research done by market economist Robert Shiller of Yale shows theres a striking correlation ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/how-to-invest-during-a-market-bubble

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One of the stocks that our company follows got attacked this week. That’s right, Well Technologies (WELL on TSX) was the subject of not one, but two, short sell reports, designed to strike fear in the hearts of investors and drive share prices down. WELL fell about seven per cent intra-day on ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/short-sellers-dont-always-win-and-shouldnt-get-the-glory

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FP Answers puts your investing questions to the experts. This week our expert is John De Goey, a portfolio manager with Wellington-Altus Private Wealth. Whatever your investment question, ask us, because FP Answers.

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Ive been reading a lot about the stock market crash of 1929. That was a time ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/fp-answers-are-markets-headed-in-the-same-direction-as-the-great-crash-of-1929

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Investment from some of the most famous celebrities has been flowing into Canada’s startups, with entrepreneurs eager to add the allure of the rich and famous to their roster of investors.

Some of Canada’s most famous celebrities and athletes — Toronto rapper Drake, Vancouver-...

https://financialpost.com/investing/star-studded-startups-a-listers-are-putting-their-funds-and-creative-genius-into-a-wealth-of-venture-capital-deals

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Wealthsimple Technologies Inc. has raised $750 million, propelling the online financial services company to a $5 billion valuation.

The deal for the seven-year-old Toronto-based company was led by U.S. venture capital firms Meritech and Greylock, and is backed by some of Silicon Valley biggest ...

https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/fintech/wealthsimple-raises-750-million-from-investors-including-drake-and-ryan-reynolds

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How do you know when the markets are all priced in? When good news fails to incite a positive price reaction.

That has become a major story, because the market is sputtering a little even though a record 87 per cent of S&P 500 companies that have reported thus far have smashed through their ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/david-rosenberg-you-know-a-market-is-all-priced-in-when

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FP Answers puts your investing questions to the experts. This week our expert is John De Goey, a portfolio manager with Wellington-Altus Private Wealth. Whatever your investment question, ask us, because FP Answers.

Q:

I’m a value investor and like to do my own research. But the economic ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/fp-answers-is-value-investing-dead

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Q:

I’m an active investor with a six-figure portfolio. Even though the 50 per cent capital gains tax inclusion rate wasn’t changed in the recent federal budget, I’m worried that it’s something that will likely change in the near future. Expectations are that President Biden...

https://financialpost.com/investing/fp-answers-should-i-rethink-my-capital-gains-strategy-to-prepare-for-a-tax-rate-hike

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Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital was once asked about the dramatic decline of oil prices in 2014. He responded by talking about how unpredictable oil is, and how nobody called the drop, but it was his next comment that really stuck with me. He said that not only did no one predict it, nobody was even...

https://financialpost.com/investing/these-important-but-forgotten-issues-might-just-become-the-next-big-market-movers

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The

news this week

that Wealthsimple Technologies Inc. was raising $750 million in a funding round that valued the financial upstart at $5 billion — up from $1.4 billion in October — sent jaws dropping in Canada’s wealth management industry.

What made the valuation ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/wealthsimple-valuation-should-be-a-wake-up-call-for-big-banks-and-traditional-money-managers

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In Ontario, a couple we’ll call Stuart and Celia, 52 and 49, respectively, have two kids ages 13 and 16. They have annual income of Celia’s salary of $41,820, net, from her job in health care, and Stuart’s armed forces disability and retirement pensions, which work out to $90,648 ...

https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/family-finance/a-military-pension-provides-bulletproof-financial-security-for-ontario-couple

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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics

— Seth Lloyd

As in life and nature, markets cycle, moving through increasing states of disorder before correcting, rebalancing and finally reaching equilibrium. In Martin Pelletier’s view, markets ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/martin-pelletier-where-to-look-for-hidden-value-in-a-market-gone-mad

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By David Rosenberg and Ellen Cooper

It has been surprising to see just how far commodity prices have soared beyond what could be considered real economic growth. Much of the rebound has been a result of the base effects from the pandemic plunge, but there are other factors at play as well. The ...

https://financialpost.com/investing/david-rosenberg-why-the-commodity-supercycle-narrative-is-overblown

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Lockdowns and the fight against COVID-19 have understandably caused tremendous anxiety over the past year, as people worry for their loved ones and deal with the uncertainty of what life will look like in a post-pandemic world.

Here in Canada, the lack of vaccine supply and resulting slow roll-out...

https://financialpost.com/investing/in-an-era-of-loose-fiscal-and-monetary-policy-cutting-your-canada-exposure-may-be-the-best-option

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