Chairman’s Message: Thriving Through Adversity
Just about a year ago, on March 13, 2020, we made the decision to close our office and work from home like so many of you did. Who knew, at the time, that this would have continued for as long…
It’s Not Supposed to Be This Easy
What do the following three stories have in common? A video highlight of Lebron James dunking a basketball sold for $208,000 USD on NBA Top Shot (a new blockchain-based platform that allows fans to buy, sell and trade NBA-licensed GIFs…
The Importance of Meeting Notes
Mozart had an extraordinary memory. At the age of fourteen, he was visiting Rome when he heard Allegri’s Miserere performed in the Sistine Chapel; later that day he was able to write out the entire score from memory.1 This piece was…
Rationally Irrational
The finance world has long assumed that markets are “efficient”. In other words, investors’ actions are perfectly rational and they act in their self interest in order to maximize their personal benefit. It also assumes that everyone has access to perfect information…
Northwood Staff Profile: Karen D’Souza
What do you do at Northwood Family Office? As part of the Northwood Operations team, my main responsibility is to ensure that our clients’ investments and requests are executed in an accurate, timely and cost effective manner. Additionally, I manage…
Chairman’s Message: 2020 Hindsight?
If I had told you in the Fall of 2016 – not even five years ago – that Elon Musk would be the richest man in the world, a global pandemic would virtually shut down the entire world, and a…
When do You Need a Family Office?
Despite all of the challenges of the past year, 2020 was a year of continued growth for us at Northwood Family Office, with the addition of a number of new families who chose Northwood to manage their integrated financial affairs.…
How to Make a Million Dollars in a TFSA Account
Note: In the Northwood Perspective newsletter, we usually target our writing to current and prospective family office clients (i.e. those with $10M+ of investable assets). However, we are also aware that many other people read our newsletter on a regular…
Why Dividend ‘Growth’ Matters
For investors seeking income, the investment landscape has become an increasingly complicated one over the past several years. Two prevailing themes have been ‘yield compression’ and recurring volatility explosions. Over the past decades, yields on traditional fixed income instruments have…
Is Inflation About to Return?
One topic that has been getting increasing attention in 2021 is inflation. With a significant supply of new money in the market, there are concerns about a burst of inflation as economies reopen and pent-up demand comes back online. The…
