Stock Talk

The move by Amazon to buy Whole Foods is a game changer deal on so many levels. In this Amazon, Aman offers his takes on the deal and how it can shake up the entire retail sector along with how he is framing his investment decisions in his own portfolios going forward.

A lot of times in investing, opportunities and times for action don’t happen on schedule. They just happen and you have to be ready to execute. That is the great benefit of having an investment ideology and The List of companies you’ve done your homework on and are ready to buy if the price is attractive enough and the fundamentals of the business haven’t changed from when you were evaluating the...

It's interesting to note that as stock markets in the US set record high's on a daily basis that when you dig deeper, most of the gains in the market are being driven by a handful of stocks. This episode of Stock Talk skews heavily into some academic research side and I use the term "skew" purposely as some old research has re-emerged and has shed some light on another factor that makes it hard to...

Since I started doing Stock Talk in podcast and video forms, I've noticed something. It appears the most popular episodes are the one's where I've shared responses that I've offered to people that have sent me questions or responses that I've given in personal finance and investing groups. The great thing is these questions are not really that personal and I feel many, many people can benefit and...

Our journey to achieving important financial goals like retirement or buying a house have traditionally been long treks. In recent years we've been seeing more people who aren't interesting running that marathon but would prefer to sprint to the finish line and achieve FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) or other personal finance goals like paying off their mortgage in 5 years, or engaging...

Another edition where I share my thought processes that went into my most recent investment decisions. It's one thing for me to teach people how to invest. It's another to model the behaviour. In this episode Aman shares his thought process that went into his decision to buy an ETF and his decision to sell a stock.

The financial services industry has been taking a hit lately. With admissions by former staff of pressures by management to meet aggressive sales targets, up-sell customers, and create accounts without customer consent, it hasn't been good run even though they continue to crank out massive profits. The reality is despite these transgressions,  banks are not going away. Financial advisers or adviso...

There's been a lot of angst and worry and hysteria thanks to the newly elected Mad King and his minions. You won't find any of that on Wall Street these days. Every is awesome! Aman shares some of the current psychology that is pervading the trading floors and counters of Wall Street.

Since I've been posting the podcast version of Stock Talk, I've been getting a lot more questions about investing and some pretty damn good ones so I thought I would share a couple with you as they capture some pretty important investing concepts that we all need to make sure we've got lined up before we embark on our investing journey. One questions comes from an 18 year old who asked, "What kind...

This episode is a bit of a catch-up episode in that I touch base on a variety of interesting behavioural investing observations, starting with my own recent investment decisions and layering on some observations on how easily we can be swayed to take investment decisions that we really have no business taking. Finally I touch on a recent trend in the investing space where professionals are adding...

I thought I would take a break from talking about robo advisers, but I discovered something in my robo portfolio that I couldn't put off sharing with you. One of the key value propositions of robo advisers is they stay disciplined to keeping your portfolio diversified across different types of stocks and bonds. When certain parts of the portfolio stray away from their allocations and increase or d...

This episode is a replay of the webinar I delivered on finding your right investing path. I've delivered this presentation many times and it's one of my favourite and one of the most important.  Many times I get asked, "Aman, I have $5000 or $10,000 or $50,000 and I want to invest it. What stocks or bonds or ETF's should I buy?" People are looking for the quick answer and solution. Unfortunately i...

In this episode, Aman provides some interesting updates from his previous episode where he was critiqued by a blogger regarding his use of questions as it pertains to the performance of his robo portfolio. It's also an episode of firsts as Aman presents his first book report since Grade 3. One of his goals this year is to read some of the personal finance books that have been piling up in his hous...

A couple of episodes ago I talked about my latest update on my Robo  portfolio that I setup a couple of years ago. People seem to be interested in my observations about my experience using a Robo Adviser. One of the main reasons I setup an account was to see if these types of portfolios perform any better than traditional portfolios.  I asked the question does this type of business model make mone...

In this episode, Aman reviews his recent investment decisions in January. It was a tough month with many different dynamics in play that forced Aman to make some tough decisions, however, the month provided Aman with an opportunity to practice and reinforce his discipline in managing losses, a skill set that investors do not practice enough as we tend to focus on finding profitable investments.

It's been two years since I setup my online investing portfolio via a robo adviser. In this episode I check in on my portfolio to see if it is delivering the goods and offer up some general observations about the robo adviser model.

The recent proclamation by the Donald (aka The Mad King) and his Wall Street minions of the desire to jump into a Hot Tub Time Machine and go back to 1999, a time where financial regulation was unfettered is a call to action for investors. Aman shares his thoughts on how the Financial Crisis became his A-Ha moment for starting his investment coaching practice and how we can take proactive steps to...

When I teach and mentor people how to buy and sell stocks and ETF's, the learnings revolve around understanding what makes stock prices go up and down. I teach people how to read and interpret financial statements, assess risk, valuation, developing an investment decision framework, learning and managing our emotions. These are core pillars to framing an investment decision. There is also one othe...

In this episode, Aman shares some observations on how the financial services industry are targeting Millennials with sustainable investing products, even though the track records of these type of products are not the greatest. The industry's response is they are just giving what people want. Unfortunately it might not be in the investors best interest. Aman also shares his personal story of how hi...

I actually had a totally different working title for this episode but recent events have introduced a term that somehow fits where I'm going with this episode. I'm afraid that what I'm going to say is going to ruffle some feathers in the personal finance blogging community. When I started out as an investment coach, I spent a fair bit of time teaching people how to filter financial information fro...

The new year to me is a natural time to pause and reflect on what I've accomplished this past year. More importantly it's a good time to lay the groundwork for the upcoming year. In this episode, Aman offers some insights into how to map out your investing path.

In this episode, Aman reviews some of the big investing flashpoint and how he dealt with them. There were three critical moments in 2016 that played important roles in how you performed during the year.

If you've read Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, you are quite familiar with the 10,000 Rule, which he cites as the minimum amount of time one needs to master a skill or task. When I look at my investing career, my path has been very different in some sense, however the constant was the amount or practice I put into investing. I can safely say I've spend way over 10,000 hours in formal training a...

November was a crazy month as we all know. Aman shares how he approached the month and his decisions to sell certain stocks.