Canada Investment Summit: What It Means for Businesses and Investors

The Canada Investment Summit brought renewed attention to investment opportunities in the country and new, as well as pre-existing, strategies for influencing economic growth and competitiveness....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: The Great Normalization

Our views on investment strategy, given the events of the past week and their impact on equity and fixed income markets....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Debunking the Myths of Spooky Season

Our views on investment strategy, given the events of the past week and their impact on equity and fixed income markets....

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Investment Opportunities in Canada Across Energy, Metals and Mining and Data Centers

Canada is poised to benefit from being at the intersection of several powerful investment themes, including energy growth, rising demand for metals and critical minerals and the buildout of AI infrastructure....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Considering the Consumer

Our views on investment strategy, given the events of the past week and their impact on equity and fixed income markets....

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Beyond the Headlines: Understanding What Tariffs Mean for Your Business

On August 22, trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S. broke down, culminating with the U.S. imposing 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: It AIn’t Over Yet

Our views on investment strategy, given the events of the past week and their impact on equity and fixed income markets....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Myth-Busting

Our views on investment strategy, given the events of the past week and their impact on equity and fixed income markets....

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Global Trade Outlook: The Canada-U.S. Tariffs Challenge

Canada and the U.S. are struggling to define the next stage in one of the largest bilateral trade relationships in the world....

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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!