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The Ground Has Shifted: Meketa's Mid-Year Macro Reckoning
What began as a framework organized around four familiar themes has become something considerably more urgent. When Meketa…
Returns Are a Commodity—Stop Selling the Plumbing
Listen on The Move If you couldn't talk about performance for 10 minutes, what would you tell…
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 Warsh Dividend: Why Bonds Are Back on the Table
Every so often, a structural shift in the institutional landscape demands that investors reconsider assumptions they have held…
The Eh-OK Consumer
by Craig Basinger, Chief Market Strategist, Purpose Investments Sneak peak – Our plan for next week’s ethos is…
The CIO's View: What Changed, What Held, What's Next? | Chhad Aul
Listen on The Move For 20 years, Canadian investors collected three free gifts they never paid for…
Warsh Has the Fed Right Where He Wants It
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios We’re back…
A Weird Cocktail
by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management Last week I wrote that: “Despite these brutal exchanges between the…
Keep Calm and Clip Coupons
LPL Research examines how sticky inflation, Fed leadership changes, and AI-driven borrowing are shaping the fixed income outlook for 2026.
Global Investment Outlook—Resilience
A look at the resilient global economy, evolving market opportunities, and key risks shaping the investment outlook.
The Warsh Fed—Return to Orthodoxy
Kevin Warsh came out as a hawk during his first press conference as Federal Reserve (Fed) chair. Franklin Templeton Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai believes that he may be the most hawkish chair since Paul Volcker. Warsh stressed that the Fed can and will bring inflation back to 2%, and signaled his preference for a smaller balance sheet and no forward guidance—a welcome return to more orthodox monetary policy.
The K-Shaped Economy: Why The Middle Class Moved Up.
by Lance Roberts, RIA The K-shaped economy has become shorthand for a tidy story. The rich pull away…
Value's Moment: Canada, Tariffs, and the Case for Stock Picking
Richard Wong of Mackenzie's Cundill boutique on why valuation is back, where to find opportunity in Canada, and how to think about AI without the hype.
Bank of Canada Holds Again — But the Calm Has a Cost
RBC's Claire Fan unpacks the BoC's fifth consecutive hold and what the silence between the lines actually signals.
Inflation fears?
by Michael Browne, Global Investment Strategist, Franklin Templeton Investments When the US-Iran war started, we highlighted that second-round…
Bending, Not Breaking: Jan Hatzius on a World That Keeps Surprising to the Upside
Goldman Sachs' chief economist says the global economy is holding together — but the risks haven't gone away.