Dividends are great, but investors should beware of mistaking (just) a big yield for an investment opportunity. All that glitters on the Christmas tree is not gold. Let me explain. Dividends undoubtedly represent...
Please enjoy the inaugural edition of the Leith Wheeler “I Built This” Series, in which we plan to profile the journeys of remarkable entrepreneurs. It’s a grey day on the Naramata Bench, a...
I was listening to a back episode of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast recently in which he explores the idea of "transactive memory." In it, he says: “We don’t just store information in...
We recently presented a webinar with the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) that explored the case for US Small/Mid-Cap (SMID) and Emerging Markets (EM) Equities. Here's a quick summary - please see...
Back in March, the Government of Canada’s Budget 2023 proposed several amendments to the Income Tax Act which could, if implemented, raise the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) paid by individuals by taxing capital...
For simplicity, folks like me who write about financial markets and planning present a fairly crisp version of the world. Equity strategies are concentrated enough to diversify risk and are split across regions...
The following article was written by Leith Wheeler Principal, Portfolio Manager Stephanie Hickmott and first included in the program for the Canadian Alternative Investment Forum. It has been reprinted here with permission. In...
We recently hosted our annual Outlook event for Leith Wheeler clients in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto with President, CEO & Head of Fixed Income, Jim Gilliland, our Fixed Income Analyst, Tamsin Wilding, and...
The buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increased significantly in recent months after research company OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT, a generative AI-based chatbot that can do everything from answering mundane queries to more...
On December 15, 2022, the federal government passed Bill C-32, the Fall Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2022 (“Bill C-32”), implementing a number of changes to the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “ITA”). Among...
The following article was first published in Benefits and Pensions Monitor's December 2022 issue (pp 17-18). It has been reprinted here with permission. You can download a PDF of the original article here...
When you walk through the front doors of our office you will notice a cartoon that has hung on our wall since Bill Wheeler & Murray Leith founded the company in 1982. The...
