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		<title>Finding Retirement Income in a Low Rate Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that income-seeking investors have fewer places to turn than several years ago. As the global economy went south in 2008, central banks reduced the cost of borrowing to spur economic growth. With long dated Government of Canada bonds yielding a rate similar to headline inflation, other types of securities must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old joke says that if you owe the bank $1 million you have a problem, but if you owe the bank $1 billion, the bank has a problem.&#160; That is the situation in Europe in a nutshell.&#160;The highly indebted weak economies of southern Europe somehow talked the banks into loaning them much too much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Baskin in the Globe and Mail on anti-index investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article is here
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		<title>Value Investing takes discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Value investing is the discipline of purchasing a security at a significant discount to its current underlying value, and then holding it until more of the value is recognized. The key to value investing is indeed discipline in the truest sense of the word: one must have patience and resolve since, more often than not, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baskinfinancial.com/main/value-investing-takes-discipline/</link>
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		<title>Baskin Financial Returns YTD 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As at April 30, 2012, our average client was up 4.53%
Each of our client&#8217;s portfolios is assigned to one of seven asset allocation strategies.  Please contact one of our portfolio managers to find out more about returns in each strategy and the asset allocation breakdown.
Over the past 15 years our average client has earned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baskinfinancial.com/main/baskin-financial-year-to-date-performance-update/</link>
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		<title>Barry Schwartz is now on twitter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow Barry on twitter @MrBarrySchwartz
twitter.com/MrBarrySchwartz
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		<link>http://www.baskinfinancial.com/main/barry-schwartz-is-now-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Barry Schwartz to be on BNN Market Call 1:30pm on May 8th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please tune in
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		<link>http://www.baskinfinancial.com/main/barry-schwartz-to-be-on-bnn-market-call-130pm-on-may-8th/</link>
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		<title>The TSX index is undervalued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today, the TSX closed at 13,909. Today it closed at 12,145. Over the same period, the S&#038;P 500 is up over 3% and the Dow is up close to 5%. Commodity related stocks comprise close to 50% of the TSX, but the divergence between Canadian and U.S. indices seems over done. Sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baskinfinancial.com/main/the-tsx-index-is-undervalued/</link>
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		<title>Focus on the knowns, not the unknowns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the business channel today there was an interview with three leading hedge managers.&#160; Each was given a minute or so to discuss his outlook on the market and strategies in the current environment.&#160; One said that he was buying insurance in case of a market drop, another said we should be market neutral and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baskinfinancial.com/main/focus-on-the-knowns-not-the-unknowns/</link>
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		<title>The Role of Speculation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Prices will fluctuate,” predicted astute banker J.P. Morgan when asked to forecast where the stock market would be next year. Even today, Morgan’s prediction has yet to be proven incorrect.
Markets are unpredictable over the short-term. In periods of high uncertainty, headlines cause large variances in the price of an index and its comprising stocks. When [...]]]></description>
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