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Read the macro investment strategy and asset allocation thinking behind your portfolio, penned by our in-house market strategist, Robin Gullason.

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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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How lowering the number of non-permanent residents will impact Canada’s economy

How lowering the number of non-permanent residents will impact Canada’s economy

April 05, 2024 |Nathan Janzen
Federal government efforts to limit non-permanent resident arrivals will likely slow the pace of gross domestic product growth in 2025 and beyond. However, per-capita GDP, the unemployment rate, broader inflation pressures, and interest rate expectations...
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E-for-a-tree

E-for-a-tree

December 06, 2023 |The Harbour Group
Launched in 2020 as a partnership between WMC, the RBC Foundation, and Tree Canada, Wealth Management Canada’s (WMC) e-for-a-tree initiative took place again in 2021. As part of this campaign, WMC invited clients to switch to paperless statements and...
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Bonds Come Due at Par

Bonds Come Due at Par

June 09, 2023 |Robin Gullason
Interest rate “pause” is over for the time being as Bank of Canada surprises with a rate hike. Resilient economy (and real estate market) likely forced Bank of Canada’s hand and markets suspect the Federal Reserve is next. Short term, higher yields put...
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Bonds Come Due at Par

June 09, 2023 |Robin Gullason
Interest rate “pause” is over for the time being as Bank of Canada surprises with a rate hike. Resilient economy (and real estate market) likely forced Bank of Canada’s hand and markets suspect the Federal Reserve is next. Short term, higher yields put...
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Navigating Through Stormy Waters

May 15, 2023 |Robin Gullason
In the short term, waning momentum of positive good news on COVID-19 has left equity markets trading in a range. Markets never go up in a straight line, and are unlikely to recover from this shock in that fashion either. Volatility is completely normal...
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Will The Fed Upend Markets In 2022?

January 07, 2023 |Robin Gullason
Equity markets have largely ignored COVID developments of late. Central banks are another matter – the volatility seen in November was just as much about the Fed as it was Omicron. Rate hikes are widely expected from the Federal Reserve and the Bank of...
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