Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert The Changing Defence Industry If you wanted to buy defence stocks, you would normally look for the ones that built really expensive equipment like planes, missiles, submarines or aircraft carriers. Then zero in, on those having the juiciest contracts with big spender governments. The Russian/Ukrainian War has changed the combat equation. Battles are now being f...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Oil Surplusses Unless we have a war or other major disruption to oil production, it looks like prices aren’t headed higher anytime soon. Russia is in peace talks with Ukraine, and the US, is pursuing a nuclear weapons treaty with Iran. If one or both are successful, it will lead to sanctions being lifted, giving both of these large producing nations, access to...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Where Nuclear is Growing Many investors are avoiding the nuclear sector, because they think cost overruns and construction delays make them uneconomic to build in the west. This outlook ignores what is going on in the rest of the world. China for example can build a nuclear reactor for 2.5 billion US, which is a quarter our cost. That country has 40 reactors in...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Russia & Commodity Prices For the first time is over 3 years, we are beginning to see baby steps towards peace talks between Russia and the Ukraine. Investors should be paying attention. Russia’s economy has been badly damaged by the war and trade embargoes that followed. As soon as peace comes and the sanctions are lifted, Russia will begin dumping stockpiles...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Going Into The Trades Generation Z are the kids born between 1997 and 2012. That would make the oldest of them, 28 this year. A recent survey of this group, found that half thought a 4 year university degree was a waste of time and money. Historically, higher education was the key, to better job prospects and higher incomes. That is changing, because of artific...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Vehicle Economics Many people are teetering on the fence deciding whether their next new vehicle purchase should be electric or internal combustion. We will set aside personal issues like access to chargers & environmental impact and focus on the economics. To determine the vehicle that will give you the most bang for your buck, requires taking into account fiv...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Fees and Performance When researching mutual funds, their turnover rate is one criteria that should be included on the list. This is the amount of buying and selling that takes place in a portfolio annually. Typically the higher the turnover the lower the returns. Over 15 years, almost a 1/3 of funds, that had a low turnover rate of 25% or less, were able to ou...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Interest Rates Send A Message The United States and Japan are two countries, whose debt is spiralling out of control. To continue, they must find more and more buyers for all the bonds they need to issue to fund this wild party. But potential purchasers are starting to balk - worried about being paid back. By closing their wallets, the US and Japan are having t...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Getting The Price Right Investing in upcoming trends, can lead to big profits, but requires getting two things right. The first is being able to identify an event that will create winners in the stock market. For example, the war between Russia and the Ukraine led to an embargo on the purchase of Russian oil. Prices shot up and so did oil stocks. The second is...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Get An Advisor Who Can Relate When shopping around for a financial advisor, it can be a real advantage to pick someone who is similar in age and from the same socio-economic background. If you are 65, run an oil service business, have 3 kids and a dog, and live on an acreage, it might be tough for a single Gen Z advisor, who lives alone in a downtown condo, sur...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert Saving vs Earning Discussions on getting rich are always filled with stories of people turning an idea into a business juggernaut or the stocks they bought that increased in value a hundred times. However, very little attention is spent on frugality, which is the unsexy side of the equation. Warren Buffet who has a net worth of 160 billion, still drives a 12 ye...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert A Margin of Safety Benjamin Graham is considered the father of modern investing. He talked about building a margin of safety into a portfolio. Making it conservative enough so when tough markets come, its value will hold up under stress. He said, that if you built a margin of safety into your investments, it makes trying to predict where things are going unnece...

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert

Making Money Minute with Ron Hiebert