COMMENTARY: July 2024

COMMENTARY: July 2024

Not every investment decision pans out and, like everyone, we’ve made mistakes in the past. The difference with Qube is that we embrace those mistakes and extrapolate on why we made the decisions we did. Qube not only reflects on the dogs in the portfolio, but lays out the best practices of our deliberation process.

Read more about Qube’s investing philosophy, along with provincial tax disparities and the moral boundaries on tax planning, in this edition of our Commentary.

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Funds vs. Portfolios
Corporate Planning, Personal Finance Maxine Brodeur Corporate Planning, Personal Finance Maxine Brodeur

Funds vs. Portfolios

There are a number of different investment models, tools, and techniques for individuals seeking to take a holistic approach to their financial well-being. Although these models are all ultimately aimed at fulfilling the same purpose (maximizing returns in an effort to meet an investor’s financial goals), each method must be carefully examined in order to make informed investment decisions. Funds and portfolios are two key vehicles for investors to examine and understand. What exactly are funds? What are portfolios? How do these tools differ?

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Self-Administered Health Plans
Corporate Planning, White Paper Maxine Brodeur Corporate Planning, White Paper Maxine Brodeur

Self-Administered Health Plans

While corporate-sponsored health plans provide employees protection from the expense of drugs, dental, vision and other healthcare, they also provide a tax-efficient form of compensation. Health plans in Canada, also called Private Health Service Plans (PHSPs), are a deductible expense to the corporation and a non-taxable benefit to employees.

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COMMENTARY: July 2022

COMMENTARY: July 2022

Often, we find ourselves in conversations (some lasting nearly two decades) about this housing bubble in Canada. But if we all believe there is a bubble, and that it will inevitably pop, then why do people keep buying into real estate? Surely our belief in this bubble creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. By trying to exit before the crash, we become the crash, like lemmings to a cliff.

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COMMEnTARY: January 2022

COMMEnTARY: January 2022

If rolling dice is gambling, can we argue that using relative ratios (like P/E) to determine our investment decisions is the same? Let us usher in 2022 with the goal of proving that there is more to investing than luck and hocus-pocus. It is truly a craft, masoned by a small group of professionals- including us at Qube.

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