There has been plenty of media buzz around Snap’s proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO). Snap is the owner of the popular computer app “Snapchat”, much loved by teenagers. At an estimated $25 billion valuation, this would be the largest US IPO since Facebook in 2012. Through the last 10 years there have certainly been […]

REGISTERED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLANS (RRSPs) The maximum contribution for the 2016 tax year is $25,370. Please make your cheque payable to NBCN Inc. and ensure that we receive it by no later than February 24th The maximum contribution for the 2017 tax year is $26,010 You may contribute up to and including the year in […]

On April 24, 2015, a year before the UK voted on leaving the European Union, a year before Donald Trump won his first presidential primary race, and six months before Justin Trudeau was elected, the TSX closed at 15,408.  Less than 9 months later, on January 15, 2016, it closed at 12,073, a drop of […]

  As most of you know, last year our Chief Investment Officer Barry Schwartz was interviewed in the book “Market Masters: Interviews with Canada’s Top Investors” by Robin Speziale. Anyone who has read this interview or has followed Barry on BNN has continually heard about the importance of free cash flow. For this blog post, […]

On October 20, 2016, David Baskin, Barry Schwartz and Scott Mazi of Baskin Wealth Management delivered their Outlook 2017 to clients at the Westin Prince Hotel in Toronto. Please click here to view the outlook-2017 presentation

  People don’t like losing money. This much is obvious. What’s interesting, though, is that people suffer much more psychological pain from losing money, than they enjoy pleasure from receiving the same amount. This is a fundamental concept of prospect theory, developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Theoretically, a dollar is a dollar is […]