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: Requiem for a Brewer
The View | December 2004
In early 2002, Molson Inc., one of Canada’s grand old companies, appeared to have shaken off a history of poor decisions and positioned itself for a bright future. Under the...
The Eighth Wonder
The View | February 2004
On a cold Montreal day in February 2000 at BCE Inc. headquarters, Jean Monty was making a tough decision. As head of the dominant local telephone company in eastern Canada, Mr....
PDF: A Record of Failure: Fund Managers as Shareholders
The View | September 2003
About four years ago, I gave a speech to the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Financial Reporting Conference in which I examined the role of the auditor and accountant in...
PDF: Rooney's Believe It or Not
The View | June 2003
I’m sure when you opened your first-quarter report you had a moment when you thought (among other things), “I wish I hadn’t been in stocks last year.” And...
PDF: Horse Sense
The View | January 2003
Jim Grant, the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and guest speaker at Burgundy’s 2000 Client Day, once wrote in a typically elegant formulation that “the tricky thing about...
PDF: Wise Passivity, Cautious Opportunism
The View | November 2001
“‘To enjoy the benefits of time’ was one of the chief maxims of the statecraft of the age. Time untied so many knots, cancelled the necessity for so many desperate...
PDF: A Year of Living Dangerously
The View | May 2001
When you saw the title of my presentation today, I expect you thought we were going to review last year’s peculiar markets. That would have given us the opportunity...
PDF: Indexers, Arbitrageurs and Organ Donors
The View | December 2000
The investment strategy that has been the biggest winner with clients in the last quarter century is neither a growth strategy nor a value strategy. It is index investing, known...