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Margret Kopala

Ottawa, Ontario

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The Dog Bone Portfolio uses the example of investment learning from a dog’s behaviour. What could be more contrary? While asset protection is the top priority for the clever bone-burying dog, our canine friend is also open to acquiring new tricks to achieve investment rewards. More than this or any other facet of this book, however, I would emphasize that, while the authors pose the big questions about economics and the future, it is the reader’s task to arrive at answers most valuable to them. …

Dean LeBaronAdventure Capitalist

The Dog Bone Portfolio will be of timeless use to all careful investors who want to preserve their capital. Reflecting on everything from the relentless pressure of wealth-destroying government policies to the vagaries of long-wave fluctuations in the economy and price levels that are difficult to understand, Margret Kopala and John Budden bring clarity and insight to the forces underlying the great investment issues of the day. These include the role of gold as the proven store of value and the…

Anthony BoeckhDirector of the Graham Boeckh Foundation and former Chairman Bank Credit Analyst Research

Margret Kopala

A graduate of the University of Alberta, Ottawa writer Margret Kopala has worked in Canadian feature film and British television production, the latter mostly for the BBC while living in London, England.

Her more recent work in public policy analysis and advocacy was interrupted when she lost money in the 2008 stock market crash. Compelled to find out why and what to do about it, she researched and wrote The Dog Bone Portfolio, her first book.

Please see margretkopala.com for additional publications and Margret Kopala Wikipedia for an overview of her life and work.

John Budden

John Budden grew up in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, then studied in Europe before joining Dominion Securities in 1964. During his fifty years of diverse domestic and international investment experience, he has worked in London, New York, Boston, and Toronto, with travels around the world along the way, and Ottawa where he currently resides.

In an era of competitive devaluations, he is a renowned advocate of holding a portion of one’s portfolio in gold bullion, and provides specialized advice to pensions, endowments, and family offices.

In addition to his investment activities, he has been CFRA News/Talk Radio’s Markets Commentator since 2003, work that has included interviews with some of the world’s best and brightest investment minds.

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