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06/09/2026

Imagine selling your business for more money than you could ever spend, and then becoming depressed.

This happens because the business you built was your baby and your identity was wrapped around it.

It was the vehicle for your personal growth, your mental stimulation, your social life. It was your mission when you got up in the morning.

When the transaction is over, some people get severely disoriented.

Part of the discussions I have with our families is helping define what happens next and figuring out what projects can be funded with the new money.

Planning out this phase of life is essential.

The investment portfolio I build for them is a means to an end.

05/27/2026

The 3 Pillars of wealth building not taught in school:

1. How to earn money
2. How to do a budget
3. How to invest money

You can spend 15+ years in school and never learn these life-changing, family tree altering skills.

These should be mandatory subjects very early in school.

Do you agree?

05/22/2026

Nvidia alone now makes up around 8% of the entire S&P 500 index.

Nvidia’s market cap is around $5.27 USD Trillion.

To put it in perspective, the entire S&P TSX (Canada) is at around $5 Trillion USD.

These are extraordinary levels of concentration.

Most passive investors don’t understand what’s going on under the hood.

If this trend continues, I wonder if S&P 500 index funds will eventually have their risk profiles re-rated by regulators.

05/22/2026

I never thought I would say this but I am grateful to have grown up with nothing.

From my vantage point today, there is no chance I would have been forced to grow the way I did if I knew I had comfortable fall back plans.

The path is entrepreneurship is a brutal path of survival and a test of your pain threshold. My clients know this all too well.

Luckily for me, that pain threshold has been tested ever since I was a kid, long before I decided to build my own practice. This is my competitive advantage that is hard to replicate.

Money is not taught in school in any practical way and we were first generation immigrants from a Communist Country, so I had to figure out how money works on my own. This forced me to be disciplined with money, save for a rainy day, invest for the future and so on.

One day I may face the challenge many of my clients have:

“How do I provide a better life for my children without taking away the opportunity to struggle?”

I have developed a process for facilitating these financial conversations within families and many of my clients have told me they truly appreciate it.

Managing money for families and being part of those conversations is a great honour and I get to bring my vantage point to them. This is what keeps me going e every day.

05/21/2026

As our practice continues to evolve, we’ve simplified our team name to The Petrov Group.

Over time, I’ve come to appreciate Leonardo da Vinci’s famous quote:

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

While the name is evolving, our mission remains the same: helping families navigate their most important financial decisions with Conviction, Discipline, and Patience.

Thank you to our clients and professional partners for your continued trust and confidence.

05/14/2026

We are seeing one of the most extreme levels of concentration in the market in history.

The top 7 stocks currently represent 30-35%+ of the entire S&P 500 index. A tiny group of companies is carrying the returns of the market.

Nvidia alone has, at times, been contributing an enormous share of index returns.

This makes passive indexing look really appealing on the surface, which further amplifies the concentration since more capital automatically flows to those top names.

The only historical comparisons of major breadth deterioration we can make is late 1990’s dot-dom bubble, the late 60’s/70’s, 1929 before the depression.

One caveat is that the Mag 7 are extremely profitable businesses so we can argue that this concentration might be fundamentally justified. The question is: To what degree?

This leaves thoughtful investors in a bit of a pickle.

On one hand if you don’t own those names you’re missing the boat completely. On the other hand you may be vulnerable to more risk than you anticipated.

This situation requires delicate care with your investments, one where we find the “sweet spot” of risk/return for your case.

Share this with someone who needs to see this.

Reach out to The Petrov Group to run an inspection on your investments.

05/11/2026

There are only 2 ways to get ahead.

Effort or Leverage.

Early on you have to put in a lot of effort because you have no leverage.

Over time, you accumulate 3 points of leverage:

- Skills
- Network
- Capital

Then you eventually cross over a point where your leverage gets you further ahead than effort.

That’s real wealth.

05/07/2026

You could ask AI to create a personalized diet and fitness plan.

You can plug in the data from a blood test, you could let it know about any injuries you may have, allergies, preferences, goals, psychological profile etc…

In a minute or less it will generate the perfect plan for you.

Does this mean you will be healthy and fit? Of course not.

The results depend on consistent ex*****on through powerful detractors: emotional cycles, temptations, unforeseen events and so on.

The hard part is behaviour. That’s why the demand for personal trainers remains.

It is exactly the same for investing, and that is why the demand for (quality) advice continues to rise.

05/01/2026

Fancy, exciting, unique works for marketing, but not for investment results.

This is very similar to diet pills.

There is no substitute for sleep, diet and exercise. Any attempts to shortcut these will result in problems.

Likewise, there is no substitute for owning good quality businesses, diversification and patience.

There is no magic solution against risk.

Don’t buy into fancy marketing. Buy into timeless principles and discipline.

04/24/2026

If your investment strategy is based on your ability to do fortune-telling or predicting the future, you may be in for some pain.

What works a lot better is fully acknowledging that you do not possess these supernatural powers, and diversify your risk.

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