Ellen's Investment Club (Toronto Central Investment Share Club) Guest Speaker Session May 27, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M By videoconference 1) Are you investing primarily in individual stocks? Most club members seem to use a strategy of buying and holding shares as long as they continue to see the metrics they’re looking for – rising revenues, higher net profit and earnings per share (EPS), annual dividend growth, reasonable debt levels and enough free cash flow to stay afloat in bad times. But despite the eye-popping numbers that hot companies post quarterly, and despite explosive excitement among business journalists, we have to remember that great stocks often stumble. Not everything going on behind the scenes is reported in the media. Secrets may be kept for years, such as TD Bank’s hiccups in its major expansion to the United States and not training staff well enough in avoiding money launderers – resulting in a $3 billion (U.S.) fine after pleading guilty to multiple charge...
Ellen's Investment Club (Toronto Central Investment Share Club) Regular Session April 22, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M By videoconference 1) We originally scheduled a timely guest speaker to kick off the meeting. Ben Kaplan, a Toronto journalist, is a founder and editor of KIND magazine, which is distributed in Canada’s legal weed shops. He’s also the author of a new book called Catch A Fire: The Blaze and Bust of the Canadian Cannabis Industry (published by Dundurn Press in January 2025). Here are a couple of links with some reviews: https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754652-catch-a-fire https://www.amazon.ca/Catch-Fire-Canadian-Cannabis-Industry/dp/1459754654 Please note: You can now buy a KIndle ebook version at $9.99 from Amazon.ca. That’s a great price for a 300-page book with a very detailed history of the past six and a half years since former PM Justin Trudeau’s legalization of marijuana in October 2018. Acting as a cannabis historian, “Ben Kap...
Ellen's Investment Club (Toronto Central Investment Share Club) Regular Session October 22, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M By videoconference 1. Member introduction 2. Approve agenda We have been offered a speaker from a well-known Canadian economic research firm, Rosenberg Research & Associates, established in January 2020. Founder David Rosenberg is a fixture on social media and mainstream media with a reputation as being bearish ahead of the crowd. You can follow him on X.com (@EconguyRosie) He also has a YouTube channel under the name, Rosenberg Research. You can read his bio and see what he’s doing at https://www.rosenbergresearch.com . “Dave’s Menu of Products,” it says, “are tailored to the active investor.” When I got an email with a free trial offer, I decided to sign up. The firm’s flagship publication, Early Morning with Dave, arrives weekdays at 7:41 am. His son Jacob, who works with him, said his dad starts writing it at 4:10 a.m. each day. The Oct. 17 edi...
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