Investor Strategy: Bulls vs Bears Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Feb 07, 2024 The dynamics of these forces, and which one is perceived as stronger, often create contrarian opportunities for investors. When market sentiment becomes excessively bullish or bearish, it may present opportunities to take the opposite stance and capitalize... Read more
Market Ethos - Evaluating valuations Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Jan 30, 2024 One could certainly question the importance of valuations in this market. If you were bold enough to buy Nvidia a year ago, ignoring the 60x price-to-earnings (forward earnings), you made money. And look at Microsoft, which sits at 33x and continues to... Read more
Market Ethos - Market mood swings Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Jan 24, 2024 We are big fans of long cycles, positioning based on return expectations, valuations, and where we are in the cycle. Again, earnings growth, which is determined by the economy, is the longer-term driver of market returns. But when you look at shorter... Read more
Market Ethos - Things aren’t always as they seem Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Jan 17, 2024 Unfortunately, neither markets nor economy lend themselves to simple cause and effect because both are such complex systems with countless moving parts. Those parts are made up of the behaviours of all consumers, corporations, investors, governments,... Read more
Market Ethos - Plain vanilla is still a good flavour Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Jan 09, 2024 It was not that long ago, about a year at its peak frequency, that you couldn’t go far without coming across another report extolling the death of the plain vanilla 60/40 portfolio allocation. ‘Time to rethink portfolio construction’ was the prevalent... Read more
Investor Strategy: 2023 - A year in review Filed Under: Investment Services Published by RWL on Jan 09, 2024 A good start and finish Despite the endpoint of the year being rather favourable, it certainly wasn’t a smooth line. Here is a brief walk down the investing memory lane of 2023. Click here to access the report. Read more
Market Ethos - Top 10 Ethos of ‘23 Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Jan 09, 2024 In keeping with our annual tradition, here are our favourite Market Ethos publications of the past year. It’s time to take a look back before we take a look forward. Click HERE to access the report. Read more
Market Ethos - Goodbye to ‘buy the dip’? Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Dec 12, 2023 This is now the longest drought without all-time highs since the great financial crisis of ‘08/’09. Investors clearly expect better from their investments – likely a learned response from the ‘buy the dip’ era. The ‘buy the dip’ (BTD) mantra was steadily... Read more
Investor Strategy: 2024 outlook Published by RWL on Dec 07, 2023 The great reset final act The good news is we are probably in the final act of the great reset (or third act for any Shakespeare lovers). We believe it will include a recession, higher credit spreads, more bankruptcies, margin pressure and likely lower... Read more
Market Ethos - Land of the rising sun still shining Filed Under: Investment Services | Portfolio Management | Wealth Management Published by RWL on Nov 28, 2023 Land of the rising sun still shining For the past year, the U.S. Fed and Bank of Canada (BoC) had been increasingly hawkish, while the Bank of Japan (BoJ) was on this trend, too, but much more tepidly. Today, it appears the Bank of Canada and Fed are... Read more