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border-radius:15px"> </td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 25px">OK, so real-estate investors arenβt exactly like Scrooge McDuck, but theyβve no doubt been using their gold coins to scoop up new Toronto condos, much to the chagrin of Bob Cratchit everymen. | Disney</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">THE WEEK IN MARKETS</td></tr><tr><td class="body-text" align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 0"><strong>Soft-Landing Euphoria </strong><br>Maybe you know what it means already, but letβs define the term βsoft landingβ: itβs when rate hikes bring high inflation back to earth without triggering a full-on recession. Itβs not an easy recipe β this soufflΓ© of monetary policy, if you will β and central banks often botch it. Why mention this now? Because last week, we got more signs that a soft landing may work out this time. U.S. jobs numbers showed that inflation pressures are easing even though the economy remains strong, while the Bank of Canada held its benchmark rate at 5%, signalling itβs confident about inflation, too. Given all this news, investors generally expect the BoC and the U.S. Fed to cut rates by about 1% next year, according to Bloomberg data. This possibility has kept the stock rally chugging along: the TSX is up 4.8% YTD, while the S&P 500 is north 20% YTD. The rally could go sideways if fresh data dims investorsβ expectations, but right now the numbers are telling us to get ready for a soufflΓ©.</td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="in-this-issue-list" style="padding:30px 0 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:22px; line-height:150%; color:#5C8145; text-align:left; padding:0 0"><span style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600">IMPORTANT</span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 .75em"><strong>Guess whoβs buying Ontarioβs new condosβ¦ </strong>Faced with a painful housing crunch, Ontario scrapped rent control on new builds in <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">2018</a> to incentivize construction. And it helped! Housing starts are at a <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">30-year high</a>. The hitch: regular folks havenβt bought most of the properties in Toronto. Instead, according to a new analysis by <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font"><em>The Toronto Star</em></a>, investors have scooped up 57% of the condos built over the past six years and now own <em>80%</em> of pre-construction condos. Homes being used as investments (as opposed to primary residences) tends to <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">drive up prices</a> by limiting supply, so these investors probably arenβt <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">helping</a> the cityβs affordability issue.<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>Give yourself the gift of β¦ tax savings!</strong> Are you planning on buying a place in the next, say, 15 years (provided investors donβt own everything by then)? If so, heads up: youβve got until <strong>Dec. 31</strong> to open a First Home Savings Account, or FHSA, this year. Why bother? Well, the tax savings can be worth it (as weβve <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">covered before</a>) and simply opening a FHSA this year will give you up to $8,000 in extra contribution room to carry forward (which youβll probably want), even if you donβt have the cash lying around to fund your FHSA just yet. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>The CBCβs CEO steps in it. </strong>The broadcaster announced itβll cut <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">10% of its workforce</a>, or 800 positions, as a result of declining ad revenue and streaming competition. So surely it wonβt be doling out $16 million in C-suite bonuses like it did last year, right? Well, when asked about that, CEO Catherine Tait just <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">stared blankly</a> into the camera, as if sheβd been asked to sum up the plot of <em>Heartland</em> (something about horses?). Anyway, the cuts could jeopardize the CBCβs ability to meet its mandate to inform and entertain the masses. Fingers crossed those <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Google bucks</a> go far.</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:22px; line-height:150%; color:#5C8145; text-align:left; padding:0"><span style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600">INTERESTING</span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 4px"><strong>Spotify pink-slips its Pulitzer winner.</strong> Streamers may be hurting the CBC, but theyβre in a tough spot themselves, thanks to profitability pressure. Last week, audio giant <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Spotify</a>, which has <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">never made an annual profit</a>, laid off 17% of its staff, or about 1,500 employees. The CEO blamed the move on needing to βrightsizeβ after over-hiring during the zero-rate frothiness of β20ββ21. (Spotifyβs shares jumped <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">6%</a> on the news, although theyβre still down about 40% from their 2021 peak.) Joe Rogan hung on to his job; Spotify instead scrapped β<a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Stolen</a>,β the Pulitzer-winning podcast hosted by former CBC journalist Connie Walker, along with the beloved β<a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Heavyweight</a>,β by former Montrealer Jonathan Goldstein. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>Meet the Toronto company thatβs a bit like Berkshire. </strong>Last week, <em>The Economist</em> published an interesting (and paywalled, sorry) <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">article</a> about Constellation Software, a Toronto company thatβs delivered 35% compounded annual growth since going public in 2006. How? By snapping up steady-growing, unsexy tech firms, like ones that make car-dealership software, and then simply leaving them alone. Thatβs very Berkshire Hathaway-esque. Now letβs see if Constellation can consistently outperform the market for 50-plus years, not just 17, like the House of Buffett.<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:22px; line-height:150%; color:#5C8145; text-align:left; padding:0"><span style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600">TLDR PODCAST</span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:9px 0 4px">Last week, we talked about what <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">The Cheesecake Factory</a> can teach us about a mallβs financial health, and Charlie Mungerβs most sensible investing tip. On our next episode, out Tuesday, we get into Canadaβs monopoly problem β and why the government might, and perhaps itβs a strong <em>might</em>, actually do something about it. 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font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:30px 0 10px">IMPORTANT</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-index-chart" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">β</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Study finds only 12% of Canadian students are considered βhigh math achievers.β The other 82% know mathβs not that important. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="center"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π€³</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Ex-U.S. congressman George Santos joins Cameo, where no one can ever prove he doesnβt honestly wish you a happy birthday. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="18" valign="top" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:none"> </td><td width="1" valign="top" align="center" class="arrow-bg" style="background-color:#5c8145; line-height:1px; font-size:4px"> </td><td width="18" valign="top" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:1px 0 0; display:none"> </td><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="right"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π€</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Google launches new AI βGemini,β which can do things like analyze math homework. It will be very busy here. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Future KISS concerts will be performed by 3D avatars, which comes as news to everyone who thought they already were. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td width="75" align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:0">CRASH <br>& BURN</td><td valign="middle" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 0 0 1px"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 0 1px; display:none"> </td></tr><tr><td height="1" valign="top" align="center" style="background-color:#5c8145"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 0 0 1px"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 0 1px; display:none"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="40" valign="middle" align="center" aria-hidden="true" style="padding:0; color:#32302f; text-align:center"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68ae57b004d1e3646/original.png?1671122902" width="20" height="20" alt="" border="0" style="display:block; margin:0 auto"> </td><td valign="middle" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="bottom" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 1px 0 0"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 1px 0 0; display:none"> </td></tr><tr><td height="1" valign="top" align="center" style="background-color:#5c8145"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="display:block; padding:0 1px 0 0"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 1px 0 0; display:none"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="75" align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:0">TO THE <br>MOON</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Poll finds nearly 80% of Canadians believe in conspiracies. The other 20% arenβt about to believe what some poll says. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="center"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π₯€</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Three men charged with stealing $135K in Dr. Pepper syrup. No one told them thatβs not how you make meth. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="18" valign="bottom" align="right"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6c88f5b004ce512e9/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd6e18044004d3768bc/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:none"> </td><td width="1" valign="top" align="center" class="arrow-bg" style="background-color:#5c8145; line-height:1px; font-size:4px"> </td><td width="18" valign="bottom" align="left"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd666924c004c551200/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="light-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:block"> <img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/639b4fd68bfc58004f7ef7b0/original.png?1671122902" width="4" height="4" alt="" border="0" class="dark-img" style="padding:0 0 1px; display:none"> </td><td valign="top" style="padding:0"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 16px"><table width="256" valign="top" class="fomo-item" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="left"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">π</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">The new McDonaldβs Crocs are out, but theyβre only for adults because kids might still have a chance at life. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:16px 0 0"><table class="tldr-tile" width="66%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" align="right"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="fomo-item-bg" style="padding:15px 10px; background-color:#fff; border-radius:12px"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" aria-hidden="true" class="goomoji" style="padding:0; font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:36px; line-height:36px; color:#32302f; text-align:center">ποΈ</td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:14px; line-height:120%; color:#32302f; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">Canadians can now buy concert tickets directly from TikTok. Just give them your bank PIN and theyβll do the rest. <br><a href="#" style="color:#32302f; text-decoration:underline; font-size:10px">Source</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:500; font-size:18px; line-height:112%; color:#5c8145; text-align:center; padding:10px 0 15px">WHO CARES</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">WHATβS UP THIS WEEK</td></tr><tr><td class="body-text" align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 0"><strong>Fresh U.S. inflation data (Tuesday). </strong>Apologies if it seems like all we talk about is inflation, but itβs a big deal! <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Forecasters</a> widely expect inflation to keep trending downward, so itβll definitely be an unwelcome surprise if Novemberβs data doesnβt show a slowdown from Octoberβs 3.2% rate.<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:15px 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="center" class="referral" style="background-color:#E1EFA8; border-radius:12px; padding:0"><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:30px 0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="color-accent" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:22px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:center; letter-spacing:.05em; padding:0">DON'T BE A TLDR HOG</td></tr><tr><td class="goomoji" aria-hidden="true" valign="top" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:26px; line-height:112%; color:#32302F; text-align:center; padding:4px 0 0">π·</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="body-copy" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:center; padding:9px 0 0">Like TLDR? The first five million people to <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">click this link</a> can share it with a friend for free. (You can share it with enemies too but only if youβre ready for them to love you.)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class="big-important-story"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="section-divider" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:133%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 5px; border-bottom:1px solid #32302F">THE BIG IMPORTANT STORY</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="in-this-issue-list" style="padding:0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; font-size:14px; line-height:100%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:30px 0 0">SIMPLE INVESTING</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="headline" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:40px; line-height:100%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:8px 0 25px">How Do I Diversify, Anyway?</td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="body-copy" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:0 0 30px">If you read enough financial journalism, youβre bound to come across advice to <em>diversify the</em> <em>asset classes</em> in your portfolio<em>. </em>Which is a jargony way of saying: donβt invest in all the same stuff, unless you like losing money.<em> </em>Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, the worldβs largest hedge fund, has gone as far as to call diversification the Holy Grail of investing for delivering high and consistent returns. Weβre not saying everyone agrees (<a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">Charlie Munger</a> famously scoffed at the strategy), but conventional investing wisdom holds that diversification will steadily grow your portfolio while also helping it ride out market turmoil. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span>So, how do you build a diversified portfolio? Itβs a good time to ask that question, because, as we said up top, the 2023 FHSA contribution deadline is coming up, along with that for TFSAs and other tax-advantaged accounts. And youβll have to make <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">investment decisions</a> if you contribute. Letβs get to it: <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>First: what, exactly, is diversification? </strong>Itβs a strategy for growing your wealth in an inherently risky world by investing in different types, or classes, of assets. The thinking goes: since you canβt know for sure which investment will do better or worse over time, the surest way to build wealth is to invest in myriad assets that (1) are likely to increase in value and (2) will perform well in different economic environments. Stick with us; itβs not that complicated. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>[1] Invest in stuff that grows. </strong>If you kept all your money in the bank, it would be super safe, <em>but</em> inflation would slowly eat away at its value. Which is why people invest in assets that appreciate, or gain value β like stocks, bonds, and real estate. There are logical reasons why these assets appreciate, but it mostly comes down to being paid for taking on <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">risk</a>: investors buy assets in exchange for a future payment, knowing thereβs a chance they might lose money. And since investing carries risk, itβs smart toβ¦<span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>[2] Buy different assets, in different places. </strong>A big way to both mitigate risk and avoid missing out on good returns is to bet on assets that are geographically diversified. For instance, as the table below shows, U.S., Japanese, and Canadian stocks each dominated different decades over the past 50-odd years, but a portfolio tracking all the worldβs major stock markets (βEqual Weightβ) performed better than any one market β a big feather in diversificationβs cap.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0 0 30px"><img width="540" border="0" class="responsive" src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/65739c4700bd8f004ca0120c/original.png?1702075462" alt="Geography: the Underappreciated Diversifier" style="display:block; border-radius:15px"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="body-text" align="left" style="font-family:FuturaPT,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:400; font-size:18px; line-height:150%; color:#32302F; text-align:left; padding:0 0 30px">To maximize your odds of success β and thatβs what diversification is all about β you probably shouldnβt invest only in stocks, either, because different asset classes perform well at different times based on economic conditions. Bonds, for one, tend to perform well when economic growth suffers and stocks fall. Moreover, as this <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">chart shows</a>, some years cash or government bonds have performed the best. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span><strong>[3] Consider your goals and risk tolerance. </strong>Hereβs the hard/fun part: how much of each asset class β stocks, bonds, gold, etc. β should you own? Pros call this βasset allocation.β And itβs hard to be terribly prescriptive about it, because your strategy should hinge on your investment horizon, goals, and risk appetite. You might want to hold more stocks when youβre young, say, and more bonds when youβre older. <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span>That said, a few well-regarded investors have offered up asset-allocation targets. The late <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">David Swensen</a>, who managed Yaleβs endowment to great success, <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">suggested</a> a portfolio composed of 30% domestic (that is, U.S.) stocks, 15% foreign developed-economy stocks (e.g., Japan), 20% REITs, 15% Treasury bonds, 15% <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">TIPS</a>, and 5% emerging-market stocks (Brazil, India, etc.). <span style="display:block; line-height:.375em"><br><br></span>Disciples of Vanguard founder <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">John C. Bogle</a> popularized an even simpler structure: the <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">three-fund portfolio</a>, composed of 34% domestic (U.S.) stocks, 33% international stocks, and 33% domestic bonds. Then, of course, thereβs the classic <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">60/40</a> portfolio, composed mostly of stocks that are offset by (ostensibly) lower-risk bonds. If youβre looking for more guidance, here are some general <a href="#" style="color:#32302F; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:#5C8145; text-underline-position:from-font">allocation models</a> for Canadian investors based on risk tolerance. 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