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April 22, 2022 - As NFTs have gained prominence with celebrities, athletes, technologists and society writ large, these digital collectibles have firmly established themselves as a cultural phenomenon over the past year. Thousands of NFT collections have been released. However, one collection has emerged as the leader of this burgeoning…

April 12, 2022 - The U.S. bond index is down -7.2% year-to-date, its worst start to a year on record. Currently, bond investors face several challenges. First, beginning from a near-record low yield did not leave much on the table for investors, and left fixed income allocators with…

March 16, 2022 - The "classic" 60/40 portfolio, a strategy in which an investor holds 60% of their portfolio in stocks and 40% in bonds, has been viewed as a diversified and balanced allocation for decades. Its success is not surprising. Prior to this year, the…

March 10, 2022 - by Julian Klymochko for National Bank of Canada - Private companies have historically gone public via an IPO to raise capital and fund their growth ambitions. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft used this technique to go public early in their lifecycle to…

March 8, 2022 - In the mid-aughts, an investment concept that quickly gained in popularity with allocators was the "BRICs" - a catchy acronym for the fast-growth (at the time) markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Underwriting the BRICs thesis was the higher-than-average economic growth of those…

February 14, 2022 - The U.S. consumer price index (CPI), a barometer of inflation, rose 7.5% compared with a year ago. Core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, rose by 6.0% year-over-year. These stunning inflation readings are the highest in 40 years. (more…)

February 4, 2022 - In my 13 years of professionally managing alternative investment strategies, I have met with thousands of investment advisors, institutions and individual investors. (more…)

January 24, 2022 - With the VIX approaching 40, we are currently going through a bout of market volatility caused by investor consternation regarding central bank monetary tightening, geopolitical conflict and growth fears due to the ongoing pandemic. 2022 has kicked off with a turbulent start. (more…)

January 20, 2022 - It isn’t every day that a piece of art, specifically digital art, sells for a lofty eight-figure sum. Last spring, Everydays: The First 5000 Days, a digital work of art by digital artist Beeple, sold as an NFT for $69.3 million (paid for with 42,329…

January 11, 2022 - From 2000 to 2004, as the growth bubble popped and value stocks came roaring back, a "golden era" for long-short equity hedge funds occurred. Sound familiar? (more…)