Conversational icebreakers for Trump and Trudeau + MORE Feb 12th

Given increasing signals of stock-market overvaluation, it makes sense for investors to raise their guard

Marathon Oil , Devon Energy among companies reporting quarterly results

They can’t talk about golf—Justin Trudeau doesn’t play the game. They can’t talk about the fine art of taking selfies—Donald Trump only seems interested using his unsecured Android phone to take calls and emit ALL-CAPS TWEETS. Perhaps, when the Canadian Prime Minister and the U.S. President meet, they can chat about kids, because despite the fact Trump is a quarter-century older, his youngest son Barron is roughly the same age as Xavier, Trudeau’s eldest child.
But if their first encounter is all about getting Trump to think warmly of Canada and its leader, it couldn’t hurt Trudeau to steer the small talk toward Can-con. And since one of Trump’s favourite subjects appears to be Donald Trump himself, there are a few ways the visiting leader can remind his host about the intersections of Canadiana and Trumpland:
Trump of the Klondike
The 45th president of the United States was born after his paternal grandfather Friedrich Trump died. But Friedrich, the first Trump to arrive in the United States laid a foundation for his family’s successes in real estate development…

Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor.
I’ve read dozens of personal finance and investing books that tout the merits of indexing investing.
It’s all true.
To be clear, the trend towards low-cost, indexed investments has been great for retail investors.  Indexing works on many fronts:  it is not overly time-consuming, investing costs stay low, investors obtain diversification, and investors can ride market-like returns.
I do believe however (because I invest this way myself) that index investing is not the only way to go.  There are degrees of active and passive investing for one.  Just because you own a low-cost Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) doesn’t mean you’re passive investing forever and a day.  The fund might be lazy but the investor might not be…
Second, the equity market functions in part because of price discovery. I’m not suggesting you trade, but you need to realize the market decides every day what assets are worth.  Without this bartering system we wouldn’t have much of a market…