Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Great Expectations: What to Watch for This Earnings Season

Investors are entering the Q2 reporting season buoyed by lofty expectations rooted in unexpectedly robust Q1 results....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Regime Change Part II: The Evolution of Capital Markets

This week, we delve into the many ways the stock and bond markets have evolved to provide enhanced breadth, depth and adaptability for an ever-widening circle of participants....

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Checklist of financial considerations when starting or growing your family

Becoming a parent is one of life’s most exciting milestones....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Economic Regime Change Part I: What’s Old is New Again

In recent years, the global order has rearranged itself on a number of fronts. Some shifts have been subtle and cumulative....

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Are you emotionally ready for retirement?

Retirement is one of the biggest life transitions any of us will go through, yet we tend to treat it primarily in financial terms. How much money is it going to take to realistically afford to step away from the job?...

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: One for the Record Books: Q2 Review and Q3 Preview

Equity and fixed income markets navigated a minefield of potentially damaging disruptions during the second quarter before ending on solid footing....

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Global Trade Outlook: The USMCA and Beyond

Trade uncertainty in North America is here to stay for a while....

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Why protecting your wealth means protecting your inner circle

Technology, and the evolution of AI, has made it easier for bad actors to identify and exploit their friends, family, coaches, agents, and others around them....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Musings on the State of the AI Trade

Attention has quickly reverted to “all things AI” now that oil is once again flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and a path toward stabilization of the Mideast conflict is in sight....

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Retirement Planning Calculator Tool

This Retirement calculator will allow you to input assumptions to generate a retirement illustration and a tool for estimating income in retirement.  This self-input calculator tool will provide a good high level summary while we would develop a more comprehensive tax optimized plan for our clients using our access to a more detailed and sophisticated planning software when we meet.  Enjoy!

https://www.bmo.com/financial-calculators/retirement-savings/

 

Portfolio

To Preserve & Protect Your Legacy

Managing the Health of Your Wealth by Building Smarter Portfolios

 

We believe the greatest opportunity for clients to achieve their investment objectives and to realize optimal risk-adjusted returns is by using a well-constructed portfolio combining active, passive and alternative strategies allocated to meet their unique needs. Given all of these factors, we believe portfolio construction efforts should focus on seeking a balance between growth potential and downside protection. This means being sensitive to stock valuations, ensuring wide-ranging diversification and focusing on income.
 



In its broadest sense, diversification means exposure to a variety of asset classes that have historically had lower correlations to each other.  For many investors, this could mean adding real estate, international exposure and alternative strategies (such as long-short, absolute return, and market neutral mandates) to their portfolios.

Our Portfolio construct provides adequate and prudent diversification to global equity markets and fixed income, while incorporating an allocation to Absolute Return managers. 

Please contact us to learn more about our portfolio construct and historical performance.
 

Why Select a CFA

Why Choose a CFA?

The Case for Passive VS Active US Equity

Historically, the US equity market as represented by the S&P 500 Index, has been extremely difficult to beat!  In the past 15 years, less than 3% of Active Managers have been able to Outperform the Index. 

The S&P 500 is highly efficient, liquid, and does not suffer from high single security concentration risk (ie. like the TSX Index has in Canada in the past with Nortel, RIM, Valeant, and Shopify today). 

Please click here to see the latest SPIVA research on how difficult it is to outperform the S&P 500 US equity index.  This is why our core strategy for US equity market exposure is a Passive US Equity allocation incorporating low cost Index ETFs.

Benefits of Alternatives

With markets at all-time highs, volatility at multi-year lows, high equity market valuations and general political and economic uncertainty, investors have a desire to protect capital and earn a competitive return. Absolute Return Strategies are often utilized by High Net Worth families to Enhance Returns & Add Downside Protection to complement Traditional Portfolio Asset Exposures.

Click here to discover the Power & Benefits of Adding Alternatives to your Portfolio!