HighView Blog

The final chapter to the series of articles I’ve written this year on high-payout investments funds features leveraging.  Over the past few years, I have been contacted by several individual investors and financial advisors about strategies...

The Historical Focus: Over the past three decades, institutional investors – such as group retirement plans, foundations & endowments – have gradually been lured into the erroneous belief perpetuated by the global wealth management...

World leaders and policy makers have been trying over the past 24 months to control the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), circa 2008, and to revive economies across the developed world that are stuck in neutral. So far, success has...

This week the Globe and Mail’s John Heinzl took another run at a favourite fund of mine – BMO Monthly Income.  It’s not my favourite fund for investment but rather a favourite to write about.  In his recent article, Heinzl points...

We are pleased to announce that Beat Guldimann has joined HighView Financial Group’s Business Advisory Board.  To read the announcement, please click...

Please click here to read an interim quarter update by HighView Financial Group which provides an overiew of the current volatilty that is happening almost daily in the global capital...

The global debt crisis, particularly for governments in Europe & the United States, has created an environment of uncertainty that has led to a period of extreme capital markets volatility around the world. At HighView Financial Group, our view...

The mutual fund industry seems to be under the microscope on a regular basis.  That’s partly a function of its size.  But, to be fair, it’s also because the industry has earned criticism for its commission structures, high fees and...

A ‘minimalist’ lifestyle usually refers to living only with the basics.  The less ‘stuff’ you have, the less you have to worry about day-to-day and the happier you will be, say proponents.  Perhaps you can’t part...

Charles Ellis recently wrote an article in the August 2011 Issue of the Financial Analysts Journal titled, “The Winner’s Game“. In this article, Ellis does a great job of outlining the key issues that face the global investment...