Long Term Investing - With Baskin Wealth Management

0:00: Introduction 2.25: Our takeaways from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 9:08: Berkshire’s Apple trim 14:01: Berkshire’s enormous cash pile 19:08: Is Berkshire looking at making a large investment in Canada? 23:15: Reviewing Berkshire Hathaway’s First quarter results. 26:10: Reviewing our Apple thesis 32:00: Apple’s recent struggles in China 35:20: Don’t sleep on

0:00: Introduction 1:42: Ernest’s talks about meeting Murray Edwards, Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources 5:05: Murray Edwards’ rant on Canada’s energy policy 7:26: TMX Pipeline expansion is in business; what it means for Canada. 12:22: Natural Gas’ role in electricity demand 14:15: Listening to Mitch Rales on Capital Allocation 19:53: Follow up on Waste Connections 23:3

0:00: Introduction 3:25: Benjamin walks us through the new budget in Canada with respect to the upcoming capital gains changes. 5:43: Taking $250,000 of capital gains in one year is rare. 7:21: What to know about the new tax changes for death, selling an investment property or liquidity needs. 8:34: Capital gains taxation upon death and what actions one can take to limit the taxati

0:00: Introduction 1:37: discussion about capital gains changes in Canada and how it could affect your portfolio. 3:52: should you own a dividend payer stock vs. a growth stock given changes in capital gains rates in Canada 7:10: do these tax changes make Canada less competitive? 10:22: Feature discussion on Waste Connections 10:46: A quick discussion about the Halloween Surprise t

0:00: Introduction 0:56: Ernest’s discusses his debut on BNN Bloomberg 4:15: Why are there so few “super-investors”? 6:23: Canadian compounders trading at a discount to their U.S. peers and examples. 8:43: Why Canadian stocks are out of favour right now. 10:02: Example #1 - Couche-Tard 11:36: What do Hot Dogs and Compounders have in common? 12:40: Couche-Tard’s valuation di

0:00: Introduction 1:27: Bare Trust Debacle 3:08: Why people set up joint accounts with family members 4:17: Explaining probate on non-registered accounts held jointly with family members 10:28: The pros and Cons of Formal and Informal Trusts and joint accounts with family members 13:53: Explaining formal trusts 15:48: Explaining Informal Trusts 19:10: Explaining “For” accounts

0:00: Introduction 1:48: Golf and Cialdini 2:42: Our take on the the DOJ suit against Apple 11:42: The Apple Bull and Bear thesis 17:50: Feature discussion on Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD) 19:40: The beauty of convenience stores 22:22: ATD's Consolidation story 23:57: ATD's secret sauce to improving sales per square foot 27:22: The power of ATD's compounding 28:43: lack of volatil

0:00: Introduction 0:56: Charlie and Warren rubber duckies backstory 2:36: Bank of Canada interest rate announcement and why it is reluctant to lower interest rates. 7:47: why does this matter for long term investing? 10:08: why Baskin has as much as 70% of its clients equity exposure to the U.S. 15:50: rethinking dividend payers in a more normalized rate environment. 18:18: why Co

0:00: Intro 2:09: What to do in a bull market: 5:12: Berkshire Annual Letter 9:22: Reviewing Berkshire's under-performing assets 16:29: Letting your winners compound: 18:29: Why National Bank is outperforming: 21:44: The big picture for Canadian banks: 23:33: CNQ has reached its debt target - now what? 25:49: The math for CNQ This week's podcast touches a number of topics

0:00: Intro 0:50: Introducing Benjamin Klein 3:49: What is Financial Planning? 5:08: Should one get a CFA or CFP? 7:37: Does everyone need to do a financial plan? 13:12: The value of knowing your clients 15:22: Mistakes people make as they prepare for retirement 25:00: Building in a margin of safety into your financial plan 27:50: Not getting too conservative too soon 30:20: All ab