Monthly Commentaries

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - March 2021 With this commentary, we plan to communicate with you every month about our thoughts on the markets, some snapshots of metrics, a section on behavioural investing and finally an update on MacNicol & Associates Asset Management (MAAM). We hope you enjoy this information, and it allows you to better [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - February 2021 One of our great clients here at MacNicol and Associates is a local Toronto area Doctor whom I exchange e-mails with every now and again. In one recent dialogue which was frankly more of a diatribe, I lamented about a nasty injury that has been plaguing me for roughly [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - December 2020 Twenty-one years ago, on December 6th, 1999, shares of Amazon hit $113. In and around that time many investment professionals, including our colleague, Ross Healy, began warning that unproven technology companies were overvalued, fraught with risk and poised for collapse...   Click the link below to download the full [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - November 2020 Donald Trump is 74 years of age. Joe Biden is 77 and will be turning 78 around the time of the US Thanksgiving. Neither man made age an issue in their respective campaigns, because quite frankly President Trump presented enough “issues” in his campaign and indeed during his entire [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - September 2020 You have to admit that Jeopardy is one darn good game show. Its the sort of mental diversion one can take to temporarily “zone out” of all of life’s challenges but in a way that leaves your mind feeling clear, well balanced and alert. One obvious category would have [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - August 2020 The concept of time is a funny thing. Sometimes one hour feels like an eternity and sometimes one year feels like the blink of an eye. Oddly enough, when I reflect upon the year so far, it is as if the year has passed in a blink of an [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - June 2020 Don’t look now but the S&P500 is back over 3,000 points. Yes, I let out an incredulous gasp myself. The absolute level of the S&P500 was thing but I was much more surprised by the speed the index “tore” away from a well defined trading channel during most of [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - May 2020 Though a large contingent of lawmakers, central bankers and health care experts continue to deal with the enormous economic and human impact of COVID 19, attention is beginning to shift towards what life may look like once the crisis has passed. The MacNicol Investment Team is cautiously optimistic about [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - March 2020 Late February’s stock market action has the dubious distinction of having set a number of dastardly investment records. We will avoid rehashing the painful plethora of horror stories here as many investors continue to lick wounds. At the same time some market stats made even our eyes water and [...]

MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - February 2020 I earned a Science Degree from the University of Toronto in the late 1990’s. Among the more challenging courses I took in those days was human immunology. Human immunology gave me the opportunity to learn how the body fought off bacteria and viruses, and whole host of other interesting [...]