Investors, investment industry professionals, and even regulators have been quite anxious about the current market situation. Clearly, these are tough times-and no one can predict exactly what lies ahead in the next few days, weeks, or months. Given this uncertainty, we thought it would be helpful to review some fundamental truths about investing that have guided our approach to designing your ...

Outlook for the period ahead It is almost certain that stock markets will continue to see unusually high levels of volatility in the period ahead, and without question it will take some time for U.S. and Canadian markets and economies to work through the excesses of the recent past, whether from the U.S. housing bubble or the run-up in commodity prices. As we look past the current environment...

There was an interesting quote from Tom Stevenson of the Daily Telegraph: "Set against the hyperbole of the headline writers, the answer to the question will strike many as inadequate at best, dangerously complacent at worst. But that does not mean it is not correct. The answer, I believe, is to do nothing. The reason inaction is the best course of action is that, in markets as volatile as ...