by Leo Belmonte | Jan 10, 2021 | Leo's Blog
Happy New Year! I trust everyone had a safe and healthy holiday season. If you told me back in March 2020 we would end the year with a positive rate of return I would never have believed it. Yet here we are living in one of the most uncertain times of a generation and...
by Leo Belmonte | Feb 3, 2020 | Leo's Blog
Welcome to a new year and a new decade. I recently participated in a presentation hosted by the Economic Club of Canada. The big six Canadian banks had their chief economists offer their insights on the current state of the global economy. In addition, I would like to...
by Leo Belmonte | Jan 31, 2019 | Leo's Blog
Everyone knows how to win. Few know how to lose. Yet the secret to making money in the various markets is knowing how to lose and how to control your losses. In the book Warren Buffet calls the best book ever written on investing, namely Benjamin Graham’s THE...
by Leo Belmonte | Jan 11, 2019 | Leo's Blog
It looks like 2018 will be the first year since 2008 where all the major indices are negative for the year. Since 2008 we had an upward trajectory in the market with no recession since the Great Recession of 2008-09. We are now showing signs of a late-cycle market...
by Leo Belmonte | May 18, 2018 | Leo's Blog
2018 marks year #10 since our last global market downturn. To place this into context, historically a market correction-recession typically happens every 5-6 years. As you can appreciate we are well beyond those statistics which leads me to believe we are closer to...
