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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…)

December 24, 2021 – Over the past year, we recorded 75 shows for the Absolute Return Podcast. In a new holiday tradition, here is a list of our top 10 favourite CEO discussions on the podcast: (more…)

December 14, 2021 - Short selling of stocks was extremely challenging in 2019 and 2020. Historically, overvalued shares of unprofitable companies dramatically underperformed the market. However, over the previous two years, this market dogma flipped - the more a stock was overvalued, and the more money a…