Dear ETF Conference registrant: The 9th Annual ETF Conference – presented by ETFinsight, in partnership with CREDO Consulting – was another great event featuring high-calibre presenters, tackling timely topics and discussions. Together, 35 presenters and panellists participated in 19 engaging and insightful sessions contributing to a successful 9th Annual ETF…
Not a great week for stocks, as the Jerome Powell FED, while following through on the notion the magnitude of the hikes was to decrease (it did … 50 bps) – as amply telegraphed recently – then went on to say that it wasn’t going to be an overnight thing…
The difference a week makes … Last week, it was all about how the FEDs were going to reduce the size of upcoming rate hikes (next up US FED Dec 14, 2022 (e) 50 bps), how inflation was gradually abating and about how stocks could continue to possibly move up…
Looking at performance across geographies, factors, and asset classes (ok maybe just corporate bonds versus governments when looking at bonds), post a robust performance month of November, it strikes me as astonishing that for all of the Bear market talk, the % declines (aside perhaps from Canadian RE and Long…
Will they do 50 bps next time around (Consensus Thursday), versus will they do 75 bps (earlier consensus) on account of latest NFP? Will markets continue on the uptrend underway since mid October? Weekly performance to Dec 2, 2022 Sectors Noteworthy: The notion that the FED is on the cusp…
Mismatch – definition: “a failure to correspond or match; a discrepancy. “a huge mismatch between supply and demand” Mismatch is something we’ve all encountered before, and in the world of finance, it can cause very significant problems … Remember the ABCP fiasco back in 2007 in Canada? As a refresher – Have…
A little faster … a little more intense? Canadian Banks reported their latest quarterly results, and with that, their year end results for 2022 this week. Here is how this played out in terms of some of the ETFs providing exposure to Canadian banks: $ZEB: -2.05% week over week $HCA:…
COP27 (Convention of the Parties – Convention on Climate Change) came and went … and as seems by now par for the course, the masses (us) were treated to dire and doom warnings, much in the way of press releases and lamentations, but not much in the way of concrete…
November 17, 2022 – we are, for all intents and purposes in the final stretch of what has been an overall terrible year for investors (War, inflation, bear market, death of 60/40, energy crisis), but one where, late in the year, the word “pivot” is probably becoming one of those…
Enjoying the Volatility? This past week – lucky for equity investors … – turned out to be a tad less painful than the prior one … The moves, as anyone paying attention would know, have recently become increasingly stomach churning… Room for error seems to be cropping up everywhere, and…