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The Empowered Investor
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choices and voices in the Canadian financial services industry, The Empowered Investor Podcast can transform your investment experience and increase your odds of becoming financially secure – forever. With his simple, straightforward approach, host Keith Matthews cuts through the noise to help you make better decisions and discover the best investment and planning strategies for you and your family. As a portfolio manager and advisor at…
Episodes
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The Impact of Pandemic Buying Behaviours
Since March 2020, we’ve had to find ways to adapt to life with lockdown, quarantine, working from home and social distancing. As we changed the way we work…
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History of the Indexing Revolution
In our last three shows, we covered three principles of evidence-based investing, culminating in using index-based or passively managed investment strategies…
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EBI - Principle #3: Choose Indexing to Implement Your Portfolio
Starting with an evidence-based investing approach creates a strong foundation for the empowered investor. To help you build that foundation for your…
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EBI - Principle #2: Diversify Your Asset Classes
The principles of evidence-based investing provide you with a framework to empower you as an investor to be able to move confidently forward towards financial…
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EBI - Principle #1: Invest in Asset Classes
One of the challenges Canadian investors face is choosing between the sheer number of choices of types, styles, and strategies for investing that are…
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Winning Through Evidence-Based Investing (EBI)
For the past eleven episodes, I was joined by my co-host, Marcelo Taboada, and we covered the groundwork for becoming an empowered investor and what you need…
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Lessons for the Long-Term / A Tale of Two Decades
For the past ten episodes, we’ve highlighted the key factors you need to understand to be able to achieve financial security. Today, we’re moving in a new…
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How an Investment Policy Statement helps you look into the “eyes of a tiger”.
One of the most common criticisms we hear about the investment industry is that a lot of investors say things don't feel transparent. To remedy that problem…
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Chilling Out: Planning for Retirees
In the last two episodes of our miniseries on planning, we’ve taken a closer look at the importance of the financial plan for achieving your ultimate goal of…
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Your Power Play: Planning for 35 to Pre-Retirees
Financial planning is critical in creating a foundation for anyone wishing to become an empowered investor. Each stage of life has a specific set of issues…
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Laying a Strong Foundation: Planning for 25 to 35 Year Olds
Now that you know the key obstacles that can derail you, we’re switching gears and starting to look at the planning and building side of becoming an empowered…
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Investment Pitfall #4: Failing to Diversify Properly
What does it mean to properly diversify an investment portfolio? And why is it so hard for many investors to maintain that proper diversification over long…
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Investment Pitfall #3: Chasing Performance and Trying to Outsmart the Market
As an investor, it’s natural to want to outsmart the market. When you combine that with the discomfort of a volatile market like we are currently experiencing…
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Investment Pitfall #2: Building Portfolios Based on Predictions
As the great economist, John Kenneth Galbraith said, “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.” It’s…
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Investment Pitfall #1: Not Having an Investment Philosophy
One of the biggest challenges of investing is being able to stop mistakes from occurring. It's one of those areas where the winner can be the person that makes…
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Investment Noise: Leads to Traps and Pitfalls for Investors
Long-term investment success is based on two crucial elements: following winning principles and conquering the obstacles along the way. Today we’re taking a…
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Welcome to the Empowered Investor
Welcome to the first episode of The Empowered Investor. Today we’re introducing ourselves to you and sharing the foundational principles of the Empowered…