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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…
GSAM: Hedge Funds Were Built for This
Goldman Sachs Asset Management makes the case that the conditions favouring traditional portfolios are gone, and the conditions favouring hedge funds have arrived.
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 Relationship Between AI and Inflation
Technology investment carries rising costs.
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…
Economic Anomalies
by John Mauldin, Mauldin Economics Next month I will begin my 27th year of writing this letter. The…
Alan Greenspan, RIP
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios…
The Federal Reserve Has Spoken
by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management Last week, I wrote that the market faced a key inflection…
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.
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…
Record Highs on the Back of Earnings and AI — But Can the Rally Survive Sticky Inflation?
Astoria Portfolio Advisors' June 2026 macro outlook navigates a market at all-time highs, a new Fed chair inheriting a difficult hand, and a SpaceX IPO that history says to approach with caution.
Fog at the Fed: Why Summer's Rate Outlook Is Anything But Clear
Sage Advisory's Komson Silapachai and Thomas Urano parse a deceptively resilient economy, a geopolitically constrained energy market, and a Fed chair who has already telegraphed that he won't telegraph anything.