Special Market Update: Iran Update

Capital markets have a long history of looking past geopolitical events. An initial (and often sharp) risk-off reaction is typically followed by recovery as investors return to focusing on fundamentals....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: What Could Go Right? Reunderwriting the Bull Case

Markets started the week on a shaky note with tariffs and a potential AI/jobs apocalypse dominating the story line....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Still Nauseously Optimistic

The last 12 months have sprayed a firehose of change at investors, consumers and businesses alike....

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Smart strategies for supporting a child with special needs

What happens when someone you love requires constant, lifelong support, long after you’re able to provide it?...

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: And the Story Line is…

We’re barely two-thirds of the way into Q4 2025 earnings report season, yet a bevy of market-moving revelations have already surfaced. Traders acted quickly to adjust individual stock/sector prices for potentially revised realities, prompting more......

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The smart investor’s guide to reducing taxes and growing wealth

A smart tax plan doesn’t just maximize your registered accounts, it structures your finances in a way that optimizes every dollar you earn on the road to retirement – and beyond....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Nuggets versus Noise

 Let’s be honest – there aren’t enough adjectives to describe how wild and wooly the headlines have been in the past 12 months....

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Why the economy in 2026 will be more resilient than many think

After a year of seemingly constant market and economic uncertainty, investors might assume we’ll see more of the same this year....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Bonds Really DO Have More Fun

For many of us, stock markets are where the fun is (because they’re growth obsessed and chock full of interesting stories). Bonds, on the other hand, can be tough to wrap our heads and hearts around....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Risky Business

The Through Line: After an extended period of relative calm, volatility has reasserted itself into capital markets. Fluctuating asset prices are nerve wracking – especially when they happen suddenly or with great velocity. Yet price volatility by its...

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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!