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Wealth Through Investing

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Welcome to Wealth Through Investing

When I got back into investing, I was overwhelmed by the amount of information and the number of companies to invest in. What should I invest in? How much money should I invest? How do I get started? What are the Canadian equivalents of American saving accounts that everyone talks about? There was so much to learn it often felt like being in a fog. I knew where I wanted to go but didn’t know how to get there.

If you find yourself asking these questions, you’ve come to the right place, especially if you are a Canadian investor just starting out. Follow along with my real life investing adventures as I make my way through the investing wilderness to generate the wealth to reach my goals, all through a Canadian lens. Even if you are not a Canadian investor, but are starting your own investing adventure, you might learn from my triumphs and avoid the stumbles I’ve made along the way.

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The AI Revolution: Understanding the Technology Behind the Investment Boom

If you’ve been following the stock market over the past couple of years, you’ve probably noticed that artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest topics in investing.

Nearly every earnings call now mentions AI. Technology companies such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet (the parent of Google) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building AI infrastructure, while businesses across almost every industry are looking for ways to incorporate AI into their products and services. Yet despite all the attention, many people still aren’t sure what AI actually is or why it has become so important.

That investment involves far more than the AI software most of us interact with. It spans chips, memory, networking equipment, data centres, electricity, cloud computing, and the software and applications that turn AI into something businesses and consumers can use.

Before we can understand why companies are investing so heavily in AI, it helps to first understand what AI is – and what it isn’t.

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