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July 18, 2022 - If recession forecasting were a sport, it would be a national pastime relished by both professional economics and armchair amateurs alike. (more…)

June 13, 2022 - With the pandemic and accompanying global recession still fresh on everyone's minds, it is surprising that we have had approximately two years of economic expansion. (more…)

May 13, 2022 - From 2009 to 2021, central banks' easy-money policies dominated the investor psyche. (more…)

April 22, 2022 - Accelerate makes bold, restorative investment this Earth Day to plant 20,000 verified trees in partnership with veritree. (more…)

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…)