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Warren Buffet’s one million dollar bet: how I stopped throwing my money away

It’s storytime today on the blog. I want to share one of my favourite anecdotes from the financial world, one that’s inspired my investing strategy for the past four years. Let’s call this story: The Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare – of the ETF and the Hedge Fund. Having studied business in university,… Continue reading Warren Buffet’s one million dollar bet: how I stopped throwing my money away

How to quickly read financial statements

Unless you’re looking at a small private company with a simple business structure and few assets, their financial statements will look long and complicated to someone not used to reading them. But the great thing about financial statements is that they’re standardized; they all follow a specific set of standards (International Financial Reporting Standards for… Continue reading How to quickly read financial statements

4 reasons women are losing the financial race to men

I’m someone people can go to for financial advice. I went to business school, have a master’s degree in accounting, and work in a Big 4 Public Accounting firm auditing multinational banks. But when I wanted to start my own self-directed investment account, I asked a male friend who had dropped out of my undergraduate… Continue reading 4 reasons women are losing the financial race to men