Category: Women’s Investing
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![The $BECKY Portfolio: It Pays to be Basic.]()
The $BECKY Portfolio: It Pays to be Basic.
As a white woman it is basically sacrilegious to have not yet talked to you about Becky. Growing up in Westside Vancouver, I was inundated with Becky moms and young, bouncy Becky’s to-be. Before I go into it, I must clarify that a Becky should not be confused with a Karen. They are similar in…
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![How to Buy Cryptocurrency. (In Canada). (Eh).]()
How to Buy Cryptocurrency. (In Canada). (Eh).
There are two words in the English language that you will never hear me say consecutively: can’t complain. Can’t complain! Who on this earth literally can’t complain?! What possible concoction of drugs are you taking to live in such a euphoric bliss that you can’t complain? Follow up question, can I have some? (I’ll pay). In this…
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![The Pending Energy Crisis and Other Girly Things]()
The Pending Energy Crisis and Other Girly Things
Forty-three years ago, my favorite writer published an essay on Woody Allen’s late- ‘70s oeuvre titled, “Letter From Manhattan”. In it, Joan Didion described a body of work whose popularity she professed to find “interesting, and rather astonishing.” She went on to say that Allen’s characters possess “the false and desperate knowingness of the smartest…
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![On Starting Over, Again, and Again, Etc., Etc. Until the End of Time]()
On Starting Over, Again, and Again, Etc., Etc. Until the End of Time
Hi. It’s me. You didn’t think I was just going to stop bombarding your inbox with unsolicited financial advice and uninvited political opinion, did you? Here we are again, another January past. In less than 5 years I will be 30. I don’t know what my point is there, but it is something I keep…
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Mining for minors: Time for resource companies to figure out the money is in millennials
In 2015, when we started this outfit, our business model was to steer clear of conventional wisdom and the same old pubco marketing techniques, and instead focus on rich niches. Honest coverage of client companies that is negative when justified was one niche. Being inclusive of women was another. And appealing to a younger investor…
