Our Insights

Let’s start with – Joe Biden has had a wonderful run as President.

It is with winds of change in mind that we segue into this week’s missive. We are going to try to focus on recent events and the potential implications for markets going forward.

For the first time in roughly four years, the Bank of Canada (BoC) lowered its benchmark lending rate.

The venerable Jim Grant, had a recent piece entitled “The inflation we choose”. Mr. Grant describes it as “the inflation we choose” because too much government largesse when largesse is not needed is a choice.

With the first quarter of 2024 now in the books, we thought we would spend a bit of time doing a quick run through where various Canadian economic and market indicators stand.

Back in 2017, we pointed to a challenging economic landscape for Canada as the commodity boom of the early 2000’s had faded and a lack of economic creativity had failed to establish new potential catalysts for the coming years.

The 96th Academy Awards will be held three weeks from now and in honor of the first ever AI-hosted event – Mario the Chatbot will be hosting utilizing the downloaded comedic routines of Buddy Hackett, Jackie Mason, George Carlin and the scripts of the last seven Marvel movies – we thought we would provide some general thoughts.

The Canadian housing market is a hot topic. We put together our thoughts on the topic in a short video. Enjoy!

2022 is on a bold (and painful) course that has rarely, if ever, been travelled before.

We look at the best and worst years to be born from an investing perspective. Spoiler alert – 1943 was a gem.

Understanding what taxes and fees that will be owed upon death can be an important step in proper planning. We discuss some of these steps.