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Nearly Half of Canadian Advisors Have No Succession Plan: Which half are you in?
Listen on The Move Nearly half of Canadian financial advisors have no succession plan — and their…
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.
When Everything Trades Together, Diversification Gets Harder
AllianceBernstein's Inigo Fraser-Jenkins on the portfolio risks of the AI era
Why the Smartest Money in the Room Still Can't Price AI
Howard Marks at the Qatar Economic Forum.
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…
The Signal That Ends the AI Boom Is Not the One Most Investors Are Watching
The question is not whether the AI boom ends. The question is which of four distinct paths it…
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…
A Catalyst for the AI Bubble Break
by Ben Inker and John Pease, GMO LLC Executive Summary As the AI build-out attracts extraordinary amounts of…
Why ex-U.S. equities may be fertile ground for factor investing
As investors reassess opportunities across global equity markets, Portfolio Managers Benjamin Wang and Zoey Zhu explore the characteristics that may make developed markets outside the U.S. a compelling environment for a disciplined multi-factor approach.
A Relief Rally Meets a Reality Check
by SIACharts.com Equities began the week on firmer footing after tensions in the Middle East did not escalate…
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…
Energy Hedges the AI Trade
ClearBridge Investments: While the AI trade absorbs nearly all available investor attention, owning energy covers our absolute risk while creating the risk budget to cover the AI relative risk more effectively.