Insights

In this quarter’s Counsel Views, RBC PH&N Investment Counsel’s Chief Investment Strategist Tasneem Azim-Khan once again delivers a two-part report that provides important insights into both the U.S.’s and Canada’s economies, markets and related key developments:...

In this quarter’s Counsel Views, RBC PH&N Investment Counsel’s Chief Investment Strategist Tasneem Azim-Khan once again delivers a two-part report that provides important insights into both the U.S.’s and Canada’s economies, markets and related key developments:...

In an ever-increasingly complex and challenging world, highly accomplished individuals like you and families like yours need the right team of experts to support their wealth-building journey. Led by your Investment Counsellor (IC), your RBC PH&N Investment...

Canada The economy headed into the closing days of 2025 with a (mild) bang and not a whimper, as third quarter GDP and employment strengthened. Canada has certainly shown resilience in the face of the global upheaval that has characterized the world economy...

The global economic expansion has decelerated in the face of several macro challenges. Elevated policy uncertainty, tariffs, and the longest U.S. government shutdown in history have weighed on consumer sentiment but, importantly, leading indicators remain...

A new, if still cautious, optimism is spreading across Canada as the country faces down the massive challenges of today’s rapidly changing global economic structure and geo-political balance – and rises up to seize the opportunities that this change presents...

The World Economic Forum this year became a tale of two Davoses. Inside the main Congress Centre, a record number of attendees, including 850 CEOs, 80 tech billionaires and founders, hundreds of ministers and 65 heads of government spent the week hearing...

A narrative spun that a recession was nearly unavoidable for a country that had become so dependent on a trade partner who now looked to sever parts of its economic relationship. And yet, Canada’s economy did not collapse. There were no two quarters of...

Overall, the story of Budget 2025 is as expected. There is big new spending and deficits that would be even larger without review savings. Buffers are slim against the two fiscal anchors of a balanced operating budget by 2028-29, and a declining deficit-to-GDP...