David Berman
David Berman is an investing reporter at The Globe and Mail who connects market movements, personal finance and investor behaviour for readers making decisions about their money. He focuses on investing topics, analyzing market moves and exploring ideas that matter to both large and small investors, with an emphasis on clear explanations and practical implications. His coverage ranges from high-profile market events to everyday saving habits, always tying back to how individual investors experience gains, losses and trade-offs.
Investing coverage for everyday investors
Berman’s core beat is investing, and he writes within The Globe and Mail’s Globe Investor and personal finance coverage, where he explains how markets work for individual investors rather than only institutional players. He covers market mechanics, such as stock splits and share consolidations, using straightforward numerical examples to show how changes in share count and price affect holdings. In his stock-splits coverage, he combines these explanations with reader poll results to capture how investors feel about corporate actions, highlighting enthusiasm for stock splits and more cautious views on consolidations. He extends this approach to major events such as initial public offerings, examining how a high-profile listing like SpaceX’s creates very different outcomes for investors depending on when and how they participate. Across these pieces, he treats market news as a real-world case study in risk, timing and investor sentiment rather than a string of isolated headlines.
Personal finance habits and behavioural insights
A distinctive theme in Berman’s work is his focus on personal finance habits and the psychology of saving, where he uses everyday routines as entry points to bigger investing ideas. In a column on saving money by cooking dinner at home, he describes a self-imposed rule in which he pays himself five dollars for every meal his family does not have delivered, turning a routine choice into a structured saving mechanism. He extends this framework beyond food to suggest paying oneself to reduce unwanted habits such as smoking, drinking or mindless scrolling, and to encourage positive behaviours like walking more or learning a new language. In a separate piece on coffee and “brewing” his way to riches, he again uses a familiar daily ritual to show how small, repeated decisions compound into meaningful savings over time. These columns blend first-person narrative, simple math and behavioural cues, illustrating how modest, concrete rules can create investable pools of money that feel attainable to readers who might be overwhelmed by abstract financial advice.
Retirement and life-stage planning
Berman also writes about retirement as a life stage that demands both financial preparation and a plan for staying engaged. In his coverage of retirement, he argues that planning how to remain active and involved is at least as important as the traditional financial planning aspects. He treats retirement not only as a portfolio challenge but as a question of how people will use their time, skills and interests once they step away from full-time work, placing lifestyle alongside savings and income in the discussion. This angle positions retirement planning within the broader context of personal finance and investing, acknowledging that money decisions are intertwined with health, purpose and day-to-day routines.
Narrative, interactive and explanatory formats
Across his body of work, Berman favours formats that make investing and personal finance feel concrete and participatory. His columns often use narrative scenes—from cooking dinner to brewing coffee—to ground abstract concepts like compounding, opportunity cost and habit formation. He supplements this storytelling with explanatory sections that break down technical topics, such as stock splits, into plain-language descriptions supported by simple numerical examples. In pieces built around reader polls, he brings audience perspectives directly into the coverage, showing not just what markets are doing but how investors are reacting and why. The result is coverage that moves between data, explanation and lived experience, giving communications and financial professionals a clear view of how investing stories resonate with everyday investors and what kinds of evidence and narratives he tends to foreground.
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