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Montréal, April 17, 2023 The equity markets overcame a slew of negative macro and fundamental developments and posted positive returns in the first quarter of 2023. In effect, equity investors [...]

Montreal, January 13, 2023 The last quarter of 2022 was choppy across asset classes. To be specific, market participants were initially encouraged by a relatively strong US earnings season [...]

Montreal, February 25, 2022 BRIEF NOTE FROM THE CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER[1] Let us preface this note by saying that our thoughts are with all Ukrainians whose Canadian diaspora is the largest in [...]

Montreal, October 13, 2021 THE LATEST ON INFLATION The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported[1] that the U.S. Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) had risen 5.3% in August from August of last [...]

Montreal, September 23, 2020 FROM LAGADO PROJECTORS TO MODERN-DAY SPAC SPONSORS In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels,[1] Gulliver visits Lagado, the metropolis of the fictional island of [...]

Montreal, July 30, 2020 ENTERS PLUTUS, THE GREEK GOD OF WEALTH Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was not a particularly prolific writer. The genesis of his magnum opus took over 30 years. Nowadays, [...]

Montreal, June 30, 2020 One of the most acclaimed role-playing video game from the genre’s golden era is Fallout[1]. In the game, the player’s avatar is tasked to leave the relative safety of an [...]

Montreal, April 29, 2020 Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis is about a travelling salesman who wakes up one day inexplicably transformed into a large insect. An analogy can be drawn between [...]

Montreal, April 20, 2020 This is what one of the protagonists in Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises responds when asked how he went bankrupt. In many respects, this is how the Covid-19 [...]

Montreal, January 30, 2020 In 1951, American author George Stewart was awarded the first International Fantasy award for his novel, Earth Abides. The novel told the story of a student working on [...]