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Do Bull Markets Die of Old Age?

December 19, 2025 - Peter Hannula

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The Cure for High Valuations Is Growth

December 12, 2025 - Peter Hannula

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To Worry or Not? Can we learn to stop fretting and dance with uncertainty?

November 14, 2025 - Peter Hannula

To Worry or Not? Can we learn to stop fretting and dance with uncertainty?

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Proof point: Financial returns after a post-secondary education have diminished

Proof point: Financial returns after a post-secondary education have diminished

September 12, 2024 |Rachel Battaglia and Abbey Xu

The income earned by graduates has lagged tuition growth, particularly in fields such as engineering, architecture, and related sciences.

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Catching up with the Canadian Dollar

September 06, 2024 |Robin Gullason
Despite the onset of Bank of Canada interest rate cuts, the Canadian dollar has strengthened sharply versus the U.S. dollar in recent weeks. Typically the country cutting interest rates (in this case Canada) sees a weaker currency. Financial markets move...
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Bank of Canada cuts interest rate, hones in on downside risk

Bank of Canada cuts interest rate, hones in on downside risk

September 04, 2024 |Claire Fan

Growth in the third quarter is already looking to undershoot the BoC’s July forecast. We continue to expect another rate cut in October.

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Video: The Wealthy Barber: Is your Will’s executor ready?

August 30, 2024 |RBC Wealth Management

When estate planning, remember to include your personal property and heirlooms

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Video: The Wealthy Barber wants to know: Are you making a Will?

August 30, 2024 |RBC Wealth Management

Why you should make a Will and include an up-to-date net-worth statement

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Climate Briefing: A Smart Heating Solution For Canada’s Fiscally-Strained Municipalities

Climate Briefing: A Smart Heating Solution For Canada’s Fiscally-Strained Municipalities

August 28, 2024 |Myha Truong-Regan
Policymakers in Canada’s fastest growing cities face a triple challenge over the next decade: how to build their infrastructure for a rapidly growing population, continue lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure that neither strain municipal finances...
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Is Your Work Influencing Your Investment Decisions?

August 23, 2024 |Robin Gullason
We all have biases that work their way into our investing style and how we react to events, often highly correlated with our risk tolerance. We have also seen situations where the conditions in their industry influences investors’ decisions about their...
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Inflation keeps on slowing in Canada in July

Inflation keeps on slowing in Canada in July

August 20, 2024 |Claire Fan and Abbey Xu

The 2.5% reading is the lowest since March 2021.

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How Closely Do We Need to Watch Inflation?

August 16, 2024 |Robin Gullason
The financial media is squarely focused on three things these days – Artificial Intelligence, inflation and the Federal Reserve. For as long as we can remember, the Fed has always been front and centre for investors, and there is always a new trend that...
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Bull Market Interrupted

August 06, 2024 |Robin Gullason
In the past few weeks, market joy over potential U.S. rate cuts turned to recession fears. We continue to monitor economic statistics, and the jury is still out as to where the U.S. economy is headed next. We are still in the soft landing camp, and will...
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