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: Stoicism and the Art of Portfolio Intervention
The View | February 2013
Warren Buffett and other successful quality/value investors have given us a capital compounding system that works. But few follow the program. In this issue of The View from Burgundy,...
Narrowing the Scope for Effective Decision-Making
The Journal | February 2013
In a post last month, Anne Maggisano provided one step towards better investment decision-making: to consider the range of possible outcomes and the probability of their occurrence before making a...
The Multi-Stage Time Horizon
The Journal | January 2013
If you have spent any time in consultation with an investment firm/advisor, you will have had some experience with what the industry refers to as the Know Your Client (...
Go Global
The Journal | January 2013
Burgundy has long been a proponent of global investing. We believe that limiting the geographic scope of your equity investments will both reduce return potential and add to portfolio risk....
Make the Choice to Think Deliberately
The Journal | January 2013
In November I had the great fortune to participate in the Investment Decisions and Behavioural Finance course at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge. It was an intense and exhilarating...
It’s Different This Time
The Journal | December 2012
In my family, I’m the sixth of 16 cousins. There are 10 girls and six boys, and we range in age from the late 20s to early 40s. This holiday season...
Awards and Recognition: The Bigger Picture
The Journal | December 2012
Morningstar, an independent provider of data and research to the finance industry, held its annual Canadian Investment Awards last week in Toronto. In the Pooled Fund category, Burgundy was nominated...
The Investment Counsellors’ Corner
The Journal | November 2012
At Burgundy, we have two overlapping segments to our business. At our core we are investment managers, investing according to a long-term value philosophy with a goal of achieving superior...