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Byline: ERIC REGULY; Staff Explaining bitcoin's dazzling rise has always been a fool's game. Scarcity (bitcoins are limited by design to 21 million), gambling gone mad, utility, inflation hedge, global [...]

Byline: GEORGE ATHANASSAKOS, BOB SEEMAN George Athanassakos is a professor of finance and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Ont. Bob [...]

Byline: JOHN DE GOEY Portfolio manager with Designed Securities Ltd. and these are his views, not those of DSL. He is the author of Bullshift: How optimism bias threatens your [...]

Stomach-churning volatility in stocks, bonds and other assets on Wednesday reflected renewed worries about the state of the economy and the risks lurking in the financial system. Fear about the [...]

Byline: TEMUR DURRANI; Staff Venture capital and private equity investments in Canada are showing signs of stabilization after financing levels plunged for much of the past year, but the outlook [...]

Byline: JAMES BRADSHAW; Staff Canadian defined-benefit pension plans collectively suffered their largest losses since the 2008 financial crisis in 2022, recording a median decline in assets of 10.3 per cent [...]

Byline: JASON KIRBY; Staff The surge in investor enthusiasm for mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that aim to drive higher returns by focusing on sustainability criteria has taken a nosedive [...]

Byline: FATIMA HUSSEIN; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- A section of the US$1.7-trillion spending bill passed Friday has been billed as a dramatic step toward shoring up retirement accounts of millions [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff Making the right call in investing sometimes requires you to look excruciatingly wrong for a while. The investment advisers who declined to board the cryptocurrency hype [...]

Byline: DAVID McLEAN Owner of McLean Asset Management and Manager of the ROMC Fund Active investment funds have been overcharging investors for decades. Nowhere is this more prominent than in [...]

Byline: JOE CASTALDO; Staff Julia Huang is still surprised she pillaged her savings account to spend US$10,000 on a cartoon. For her money, she received ownership of a digital file [...]

Byline: ETHAN LOU; Special to The Globe and Mail Author of Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West. Consider the 10 biggest companies on the [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS; Staff These are tough times for hedge funds. After years of positive performance, this year's selloff in equity markets, along with roller-coaster rides for takeover target stocks [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE; Staff Bitcoin bulls have always been exuberant - that's table stakes in crypto land. But lately their enthusiasm has morphed into something even more fanatical. It's one [...]

Byline: GARY MASON; Staff From the moment he entered the race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre has been up front about the [...]

Byline: TEMUR DURRANI; Staff Cryptocurrencies are in free fall. One of the world's largest crypto exchanges is cutting nearly a fifth of its work force. And a major crypto lender [...]

Byline: IRENE GALEA; Staff Four years ago, Pamela Draper said her colleagues were astonished that she was leaving investment banking for crypto. Today, many of them are following in her [...]

Byline: GARY CHRISTIE Lead Head of North American research at Trading Central in Ottawa WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? U.S.-listed financial stocks trending higher. The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund [...]

Byline: JOHN DE GOEY Lead Adviser and portfolio manager at Wellington-Altus Private Wealth I consider myself an optimist, but that doesn't mean throwing reality out the window. And I don't [...]

Byline: JASON PEREIRA, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in countless ways. In Canada's investment industry, it has led to an upward [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead Marc van der Chijs, a venture capitalist and crypto entrepreneur, was considering loan options for the purchase of a new home this past spring - [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN, Staff Lead INSIDE THE MARKET Bitcoin, the digital token that pays no dividends but regularly delivers lavish amounts of drama, is once again testing its investors' nerves. [...]

Other European cities are eating away at Britain's edge in financial services. The government is trying to find ways to keep it. LONDON -- Coming out of Brexit this year, [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR, Staff Lead A day after Twitter's 15-year anniversary this month, its founder Jack Dorsey earned a sizable sum: US$2.9-million. That was how much Sina Estavi, an executive [...]

Lead The investment industry consulting firm Dalbar Canada called brokers five times each, on average, between Jan. 19 and Jan. 22 during standard business hours to see how long it [...]

2019 had drawn to a close as another bumper year for private markets. Managers had raised over $1 trillion of new capital (for the third consecutive year) and were sitting [...]