Stock Talk

This episode is a follow up to my mind map that followed a similar exercise. I try to walk through some possible scenarios that Trump policies (and apparently tweets) could have on stock prices in the short and long term.

As ETF's continue to enter the mainstream, investors need to be mindful of certain factors that can negatively impact investors. One element is the advent of self-indexing, where ETF companies instead of using 3rd party indexes to benchmark their performance, are developing their own benchmark indexes. Aman offers some takes on whether this is a good thing for investors.

In this episode of Stock Talk, Aman offers some good and bad takes about how the latest generation of fintech products and services is shaping how we make investment decisions.

In this episode of Stock Talk, Aman continues to explore abstract indicators that potentially influence stock prices by looking at of all things stock ticker symbols.

It's financial literacy month in Canada. Despite its noble intentions and large amount of resources dedicated to various financial literacy programs, a growing number of research has been revealing it is not yielding the desirable outcomes. Aman shares some thoughts on where financial literacy programs have gone wrong and what could make it stick longer term.

Aman offers some takes on a study that links body type with propensity of finance and wonders what the implications of "biological finance" will have on the types of services we could receive in the future.

There seems to be a race to the bottom in terms of ETF costs. While this is good news for investors, Aman ponders in this episode how do ETF companies make money off no cost ETF's?

Aman reviews his mindset and rationale that went in the investment decisions he made in September including one that he went back and forth repeatedly.

Aman shares some more hip-hop euphemisms that offer some insights into where they stand on various investing ideologies.

A research note by brokerage company Sanford Bernstein comparing passive investing to Marxism has created a furor of debate between proponents of active and passive investing ideologies. Aman weighs into the debate.

Aman reviews his decision to buy stock in Southwest Airlines by answering the 8 questions he always asks when evaluating a stock.

Aman reviews his latest investment decisions in August, specifically his decisions to sell positions. The decision to sell an investment can often be more difficult than the buy decision. Aman talks about how he thinks through his recent decisions.

It's not often that Aman get's set off after reading something, but that inflection point happened after reading an article on Robo Advisers in the Globe and Mail recently. It hit nerve on one of Aman's pet peeves about the model. Here's what Aman had to say in this archived episode of Stock Talk. The rant got some buzz and even a quote in the Financial Post!

In this archived episode of Stock Talk, Aman shares his new online investing training program, Everyday Investing.

Aman shares some his observations on what the Consenus thinking has been in the markets the past few months. Suffice to say, Consensus thinking could be looked at from the perspective of Pre-Brexit and Post-Brexit.

Aman shares his though processes on his most recent investment decisions from the previous month.

In this episode, Aman shares some thoughts on the rough week his portfolio's have been having and how he's been dealing with it.

In this episode of Stock Talk, Aman offers his take on the new CRM2 standards coming into effect in Canada and the impacts (if any) on disclosure of transparency of fess and performance.

In the 2 days of stock market chaos after the Brexit vote, an interesting thing happened in the robo adviser sphere that didn't get enough play in the mainstream media.. Aman sheds some light and offers some takes in this episode of Stock Talk. Oh yeah and he's outside!

In this episode of Stock Talk, Aman mind maps short and medium term impacts from the UK decision to leave the Euro Zone and impacts on stock prices.

We check in on our Robo portfolio that we created in 2015 to see how it's performing and gain some insights on the whole Robo adviser service.

Aman talks ponders how actively managed funds are morphing into the ETF model.

A lot of the recent social, political, and economic events seem to be driven by emotions. In this episode of Stock Talk Aman offers some takes on how these emotional events can influence our investment decisions and how to deal with them.

Aman shares his own personal investment decisions he made in June.

In this episode of Stock Talk, Aman offers his take on the recent purchase of LinkedIn by Microsoft.