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Good afternoon, US Markets edged up this week, while the TSX was slightly in the red. And while markets are broadly green around the world year-to-date, the bargain bond market still has bated breath. The Bloomberg Barclay’s Global Aggregate Bond index...

Good afternoon, It was a down week in markets broadly, though Friday was slightly positive. Here’s a piece this week from our Portfolio Advisory Group reiterating some of the longer-term issues at play. Long-term perspectives Recessions are an ordinary...

Good afternoon, just a quick note today. UK and Europe equities: Beyond the headlines European and UK equity markets are trading at valuations we consider unusually attractive. Although we maintain Underweight stances on both regions and think index returns...

Good afternoon, Take that ! Pictured to the left, a recent Chinese graduate lies in public protest - participating in a movement referred to as Tang Ping (lying flat) You must really admire the creativity of people living under a ham-fisted regime with...

Enough is enough Recent events, including bank failures and last-minute fiscal policy adjustments, have made it clear to us there are issues with financial policymaking. Our analysts explain what we think went wrong and how regulators can get back on...

If the post-game show game focuses mostly on the referees, it’s safe to say the guys in stripes blew it that night (so to speak). Referees are at their best when they keep pace with the players but stay out of their way. As fans, we value the clash of...

Basel III and We: The Basel Accords are a series of global bank regulatory regimes, the third of which added safety measures to an evolving global financial system after the 2008 crisis. One of III’s keys was “sticky deposits,” (those more likely to stick...

Good afternoon, Friday was an up day on the end of a down week as we continue to lump along through the post-pandemic swarm of swarming financial parts. Weekly Insights: The art of central banking (or Why the Referees Want to be all Three Stars in the...

“All my clients are dead.” More than an attention-grabbing gimmick, this was a comment from a professional lunch speaker I heard recently, and no, she wasn’t a rep from Canada’s MAIDS program. She was a Trust Advisor from a Canadian bank, and she couldn’t...