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Alpha Architect's Wesley Gray: The Invisible Risks Inside Every Portfolio
Listen on The Move What if the portfolio your clients think they own is actually just an…
Can MGA Technology Improve Underwriting — or Merely Accelerate Bad Decisions?
Something significant is happening in Canadian insurance right now. Three separate regulatory tracks are landing on MGA technology…
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
The Ballot Box Has Limits: What the U.S. Fiscal Clock Means for Portfolios
As midterm season returns and political commentary fills the airwaves, Meketa Investment Group's Global Macroeconomic Investment Committee offers…
Competition for Capital: The New Reality Reshaping Equity Markets
Two forces are reshaping the investment landscape with unusual intensity. In a September 17, 2026 report1 published by…
The Fed Arrived Late to Its Own Party
September 21, 2026 was not the day the Federal Reserve changed the world. It was the day it…
Headwinds, Inversions, and the Long Road Back: RBC GAM's Macro Update
RBC Global Asset Management Chief Economist Eric Lascelles delivers his latest #MacroMemo1 against a backdrop of compounding pressures:…
Scarcity Is the Signal: BlackRock's Q4 2026 Outlook Redraws the Investment Map
The BlackRock Investment Institute's 2026 Q4 Global Outlook1 arrives at a genuine inflection point. The AI buildout is…
Stronger Together: Carney, the Fed and the 5% Threshold
When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before the European Parliament and embraced an invitation for Canada to become…
Earnings Mean Reversion: When Estimates Snap Back
by Lance Roberts, RIA Consensus earnings estimates now sit close to 50% above trend, and that gap is…
Bumps Ahead
Resilient growth meets renewed inflation pressures.
Canada's Inflation Test: Insurance, Not a Cycle
In September, three of the four major developed market central banks raised rates. The European Central Bank, the…
When Negative Is the New Positive
Free cash flow has become the most contested number in technology investing. In a new report from Morgan…
Portfolio Risk Management: Winning The Long Game (Chapter 5)
by Lance Roberts, RIA “How To Win The Long Game” is the final chapter of our series and…
The Earnings Engine and the Expensive World: What Schroders' September Equity Lens Reveals
The central question Schroders poses in its September 2026 Equity Lens1 is deceptively simple: by how much should…
On My Mind: One Flew Over the Dove’s Nest
Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Kevin Warsh has established his hawkish credentials. Franklin Templeton CIO, Sonal Desai sees scope for further yield curve steepening and a range of selective opportunities, based on capturing income and focusing on quality rather than counting on lower rates or tighter spreads.