Soft assets or hard assets? Banks or base metals? This is sometimes the basic choice for Canadian investors — and it is part of a fundamental investment trade-off throughout known stock market history. We know the recent version of this story: banks and financial assets enjoyed a record boom in the 1980s and 1990s; since […]
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