The home page of Shakespeare’s Primer has this Preface: This Primer has not been updated for several years, as my current writing efforts are focused on finiki, the Canadian financial wiki.  Some of the articles of which I am the principle author and which can be thought of as supplementing or replacing articles in this Primer can be found on my new home page at Canfinancial. Keith Betty, aka “Shakespeare” on Shakespeare’s Canadian Investments (shakesprimer.com) On Canfinancial Shakespeare wrote a handful of helpful articles. He retired from writing and in November 2020 FWF ass ..read more

Investing is both remarkably simple and remarkably complex. It is complex because it is counter intuitive. It is simple because the complexities can be resolved quite easily – but the solution is not what most investors expect. The first thing to remember about investing is that, if you are an investor, you are taking on the role of a portfolio manager. As Sir John Templeton pointed out, the first role of the portfolio manager is managing the risk. It is not the purpose of this essay to show how that is done; investors can look at sources such as Risk and Return (in a Canadian wiki ..read more

Editors note: In honour of the Financial Wisdom Forum taking over archival of Bylo Selhi’s website bylo.org we are re-running some of the material here, in a more modern format, and with updated links where possible. The solution is simple—Invest with simplicity. The objectives of the bylo.org website are to encourage you to take more responsibility for your financial future, to help you learn how to invest on your own, and hopefully to make at least a modest contribution to achieving your financial goals. See also: finiki, the Canadian financial Wiki and A Primer for Canadian D ..read more

One of the founders of the Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF), known as Bylo Selhi, has had on his website, www.bylo.org, although no longer being, um, actively managed … contains general information that remains valid . www.bylo.org Continuing our mission of financial education and empowerment and to ensure that valuable websites/resources don’t disappear from the interwebs … We are pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Management team that FWF has agreed to take over hosting of the materials. If you visit www.bylo.org, it no longer has that funky redirect to some s ..read more

Welcome to the newly refreshed Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF) homepage and blog. It was time for a make-over. We have chosen a new, cleaner and crisper looking WordPress theme, GeneratePress, which by the way is developed and maintained by a fellow Canadian. The refreshed header is a nod to our discussion forum, where most of the FWF activity happens ..read more

One of the founders of the Financial Wisdom Forum (FWF), known as Shakespeare, made an announcement at the beginning of November about The End of Shakespeare’s Primer. We are pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Management team that FWF has agreed to take over hosting of the materials. So this isn’t “The End of Shakespeare’s Primer”, just like Shakespeare, the Primer has a new home. The www.canfinancial.org and www.shakespeare.com domains have been updated to the new location here on FWF.  The Links menu item now includes Shakespeare’s Primer. The preface of Shakespeare’s Pri ..read more

We have reached another milestone. Fifteen years have passed since the original FWF gang of four, Bylo Selhi, Norbert Schlenker, Shakespeare and yielder launched this discussion forum. We are still going strong, offering financial education and a place to discuss financial issues for Canadians and Canadian investors . We expect to continue for a long time. Thanks to all the people who have posted here, sharing their knowledge and experience, helping others and being helped. It is this cooperative approach that makes this forum a success. Thanks also to those who donate to help us keep going. F ..read more