2024: Sector Rotation in Play

October 24, 2024 |Alain Daaboul
Financial markets are experiencing excellent performance for the second consecutive year. This performance may be surprising, given the weakness of the economy and the economic outlook, which has changed several times throughout the year. At the beginning...
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2024: Return to Normality

January 10, 2024 |Alain Daaboul
2023 exceeded the expectations of even the most optimistic investors, with the U.S. market rebounding by 24% thanks to the technology sector, and the Canadian market by 8%. Most of the growth has occurred in the last two months, fueled by hopes that interest...
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2023: Time to Revisit Bonds

November 30, 2023 |Alain Daaboul
Since our last commentary at the beginning of September, our scenario of a slowdown in the economy is now accepted by the market. After falling in September and October, the market rebounded strongly in November. Investors celebrated the latest economic...
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2023 : How to cope with an economic slowdown

September 14, 2023 |Alain Daaboul
The first 8 months of the year were very different from the previous 8 of last year. A year ago, investors had a very negative outlook, fearing inflation that was close to 8%, as well as a looming recession. We disagreed and believed that inflation would...
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2023: Inflation Will No Longer Be the Main Concern

January 12, 2023 |Alain Daaboul
The year 2022 was a very difficult year for the financial markets; however, our portfolios outperformed their respective indexes by 10% to 15%. Equities fell by more than 15%, their worst year since 2008, while Fixed-Income fell by more than 10%. It was...
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