Views & Insights
Periodically we publish content that puts our principles and views into practice, because education is an essential component of long-term investment success.
PDF: Minerva: the Women of Burgundy Magazine, Issue 2
Minerva | October 2019
The second issue of Minerva, a publication by the Women of Burgundy. This magazine is a shared effort to foster curiosity, confidence and continual growth for women as investors...
Minerva Issue 2: In Conversation with Katie Taylor
Minerva | October 2019
In May of 2018, we were honoured to host an evening with Katie Taylor. As former CEO of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Katie was directly responsible for making capital allocation decisions...
Minerva Issue 2: Women of Burgundy, a Five-Year Update
Minerva | October 2019
A married woman, a mother, a grandmother, the CEO of her family’s foundation. Seeking the best thinking around investing so that she can prudently steward her family’s wealth...
Minerva Issue 2: Optimizing Capital
Minerva | October 2019
In June 2019, Women of Burgundy hosted an interactive conversation with Halina von dem Hagen, Global Treasurer and Head of Capital Management at Manulife Financial Corporation. Manulife is the largest...
Minerva Issue 2: Invert, Always Invert
Minerva | October 2019
The past 30 years have truly been a spectacular period to be invested in stocks. A US$10,000 investment in the S&P 500 Index at the end of 1988 would have grown...
Hot or Not?
The Journal | July 2019
In September 2008, Slumdog Millionaire won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The movie follows 18-year-old Jamal from the Juhu slums in Mumbai to his...
Naïve Optimism
The Journal | June 2019
This year’s Burgundy Forum – our 20th annual Client Day event – recognized the careful balance between rationalism, cynicism and optimism as it pertains to behaviour and diversity of thought. K...
$13 Trillion and Rising
The Journal | April 2019
In recent months, the financial media has been preoccupied with debt. We understand the attention. A little over a decade ago, high levels of American household debt were a catalyst...