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Jeff Weniger: Big Wall of Worry, Fears, No Bubble. Not Yet.
Listen on The Move What if the firm disrupting the ETF industry launched 197 funds in its…
Gold Is No Longer a Commodity: Five Forces Reshaping Strategic Portfolios
In a wide-ranging conversation on The Meb Faber Show,¹ Inigo Fraser-Jenkins, Chief Investment Strategist at AllianceBernstein, works through…
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.
Europe's Electricity Price Premium: A Structural Risk and a Multi-Year Investment Theme
Europe's electricity challenge has moved well beyond the realm of cyclical energy market disruption. In their August 2026…
Canada's Advantage: Defining Our Place on the Global Stage
Richard Fadden on trade, sovereignty, security, and the long game Canada must play
Canada's Tariff Stress Test: Resilient, Not Invincible
In a recent episode of The Open Outcry Podcast, BMO Global Asset Management's Bipan Rai sits down with…
Can ChatGPT Accurately Forecast Stock Price Direction?
What happens when a language model turns out to be a better financial analyst than most investors —…
Songs of Experience: Reminiscences of a Strategist
It's been 40 years since I began my career on Wall Street and the lessons I learned along the way from some all-time investment greats always hold true.
On My Mind: Rearranging the Debt Chairs
According to Franklin Templeton CIO Sonal Desai, the Treasury Secretary Bessent’s announcement of at least doubling the size of Treasury buybacks will not move the needle without a reduced fiscal deficit.
AI Needs Power. Power Needs Capital.
by SIACharts.com The 30-year Treasury yield has become one of the market’s more closely watched signals this week,…
AI in Drug Discovery: The Wrong Keys to the Wrong Locks
The most seductive story in biotechnology right now is also, according to Daphne Koller, the most dangerous one.…
The $700 Billion Question: How Hyperscalers Turn Data Centers Into Returns
The numbers are almost impossible to contextualize. The four largest hyperscalers — Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon —…
The 11% Problem: Why the Traditional Portfolio Has Run Out of Road
In a September 2026 LinkedIn essay, Raoul Pal argues that conventional portfolio construction has not merely underperformed1 but…
Higher Rates, Smarter Plays: Three Lessons the Market Has Forced Investors to Learn
BlackRock Investment Institute's Weekly Commentary dated August 31, 20261 arrives at a moment of genuine reckoning. Authored by…
Three Reasons to Worry — Or Not: NBI's CIO Office Sizes Up the Bull Market's Soft Spots
The summer of 2026 ended better than it began. After a turbulent July, most equity markets rebounded in…
Canada-U.S. Trade War Enters a New Phase as Fed Signals Patience on Rates
The week of August 31 brought two defining stories for markets: a deepening rift between Canada and the…