February Monthly Insight
Bottom Fishing – History has a way of repeating itself and it might be about to deliver a welcome relief from the Canadian stock market turmoil in the form of a turning point in what has been a one-sided slide since mid-April of 2015. Investors who are fearful should keep in mind what legendary long term investor Warren Buffet has long maintained; investors should, “be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful when others are greedy.”
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DM Monthly Report
China in a Bull Shop – A couple of months ago we suggested that China’s falling growth rate might be the early byproduct of a maturing economy (or one shifting from an export and investment base to one in which services and consumer expenditure play a great greater role). If investors were worried about the PRC then, however, the Chinese government threw gasoline on the anxiety fire at the beginning of 2016 when it first devalued the yuan and then made a ham fisted attempt to control the path of local stock markets. These events triggered a steep fall in Chinese shares, which helped to spark a similar rout on developed markets;…..
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Q1 Portfolio Commentary
The Pause that Refreshes – Twenty-fifteen was a forgettable year for all the major asset classes: bonds returns were middling, the S&P 500 closed the year below where it started, and the unrelenting slide in energy prices helped weigh our stock market to a loss of more than 8%. On the price basis, US stocks have now treaded water for about 18 months and one has to go back more than two years to find a point when the TSX was meaningfully lower than it is today.
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January Monthly Insight
Rate Hikes Do Not Mean Doom – In theory rising interest rates spell trouble for stocks but history confirms that equity market returns have varied significantly following the initial central rate hike. This is because not all interest rate hikes are equal.
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