Malvin Spooner is a veteran money manager, former CEO of award-winning investment fund management boutique he founded. He authored A Maverick Investor's Guidebook which blends his experience touring across the heartland in the United States with valuable investing tips and stories. He has been quoted and published for many years in business journals, newspapers and has been featured on many television programs over his career. An avid motorcycle enthusiast, and known across Canada as a part-time musician performing rock ‘n’ roll for charity, Mal is known for his candour and non-traditional (‘maverick’) thinking when discussing financial markets. His previous book published by Insomniac Press — Resources Rock: How to Invest in the Next Global Boom in Natural Resources which he authored with Pamela Clark — predicted the resources boom back in early 2004.
Making decisions about when to top up (and get back in) during brief panic episodes is difficult. Deep down we know we’re supposed to ‘do the opposite’ but fear gets…
U.S. fund manager Peter Tchir sent a note to his clients entitled: “Did Someone Hit the Sell Everything Button?” His biggest concern (and everyone’s) is the sudden change in behavior…
If Warren Buffet were at all interested in this sector, he’d find the deep value he’s always talking about. Why is the stock so cheap? What could go more wrong? …
My back-of-the-envelope approach has proved robust over decades of managing institutional portfolios. In an earlier post is suggested the downside was at least 10% but having another look I am…
The effect of the blockades on railway revenues and earnings (they’re being taken down finally) are yet to be measured, but it won’t be pretty. Are there any beneficiaries? Yes,…
It’s very difficult to teach young adults about how bonds work – although I believe I’ve done a pretty good job of it. It’s even more difficult to educate adults…
Once China’s economy is back online, it will inevitably need tons of copper. Before coronavirus, the government had planned to give a boost to economic growth: The People’s Bank of…
Experience teaches us many things. Portfolio managers with many years under their belts get anxious when markets are bubbly. At times like these, we often look for relatively safe places…
Since my earlier article suggesting the weed stocks look like they’re bottoming out, and discussing the two more liquid cannabis ETF’s for the US and Canada, it seems I may…
Bond traders have taken yields at very short end of the curve and mid-range (2 to 10 year maturities) a bit higher as confidence in the economy has temporarily strengthened. …
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