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Tax Tips For Investors

September 12, 2022 - ___Marketing HQ

Knowing how tax rules affect your investments is essential to maximizing your after-tax return. In addition, keeping up to date on changes to the tax rules ensures that you take advantage of all the tax savings available to Canadian-resident individuals. This article provides an overview of select strategies to assist you in reducing your tax bill.

Investment Strategy Summary

November 28, 2022 - ___Marketing HQ

Strategic commentary on equity and fixed income as well as an overview of fixed income markets.

U.S. Strategy Snapshot

September 20, 2022 - ___Marketing HQ

"Profit Margin Resilience on Display" - Chief Investment Strategist, Brian Belski.

Canadian Strategy Snapshot

September 20, 2022 - ___Marketing HQ

"Thoughts on TSX Performance Reversals" - Chief Investment Strategist, Brian Belski.

Weekly Strategy Perspectives: The Fed’s Duel(ing) Mandate

The Through Line: The Fed’s next interest rate decision has been hotly debated among finance types for weeks. Unlike other central banks whose only objective is controlling inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Anx-AI-ety

The Through Line: AI’s leap into public consciousness is barely three years old, yet it can be hard to recall a time when its progress or impact didn’t enter the conversation......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Through the Looking Glass

The Through Line: Market volatility reasserted itself in a big way recently amid a long list of noisy headlines......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Q3 Earnings Learnings

The Through Line: A dearth of official data (thanks to the longest U.S. government shutdown on record) needn’t prevent investors from gathering the information necessary......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Debt Dilemma

Debt of all flavors has ballooned over the past several decades thanks to low interest rates, willing lenders and increasingly sophisticated ways to borrow. This week’s piece focuses on sovereign (a.k.a. government) debt, the allure......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Consumer Conundrum

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: The Worry Closet

The Through Line: After months of relative calm, market volatility has spiked in recent days in response to flaring trade tensions between the U.S. and China......

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Resetting expectations for Canadian markets

Three-quarters of the way into 2025, and the Canadian and U.S. markets are in a significantly different – yet arguably better – place than where many people expected them to be at the start of the year......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives - Stablecoin: store of value, transaction token or hedge against the unknown?

Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Capital Market (R)Evolution

The Through Line: Organized capital markets play a vital role in facilitating the transfer of funds from those with excess resources to those in need of backing......

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