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March 1, 2024 - Over the past year, private equity funds have experienced a challenging environment for exiting investments to crystallize returns for their investors, returning the lowest amount of cash to allocators since the financial crisis that shook the global economy 15 years ago. In…

February 24, 2024 - Equities continue to experience a "goldilocks" rally. With inflation not too hot, and central banks not too cold, stocks have entered the realm of conditions that appear to be "just right". Constructive momentum, combined with rapidly growing positive sentiment toward AI-adjacent large-cap…

February 8, 2024 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

January 31, 2024 - In the Star Wars universe, the conflict between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire represents an age-old dramatic struggle between the forces of freedom and those of tyranny. The Galactic Empire, led by the Emperor and imposed by his formidable enforcer, Darth Vader, ruled the…

January 28, 2024 - Passive income, representing earnings derived from a source in which a person is not actively involved, is a popular theme amongst individual investors. Unlike active income, which is earned through labour, passive income is generated through an initial investment in which little…

January 21, 2024 - It turns out it indeed was a suckers' rally. The junk stock surge that accompanied 2023's year-end stock market bull run, in which the most shorted securities jumped more than 20% in a matter of weeks, has completely reversed itself over the…

January 13, 2024 – AlphaRank Factor Performance represents the daily historical performance of Accelerate’s proprietary model factor portfolios. (more…)

December 30, 2023 - Four years ago, the blank check market was a niche backwater of the capital markets with just 90 special purpose acquisition companies trading, representing an aggregate market capitalization of less than $25 billion. Active participants in the asset class were pleasantly surprised when…

December 28, 2023 - As we conclude 2023, the landscape of corporate merger and acquisition activity has been marked by a dynamic interplay of strategic consolidations and industry realignments. Corporations maneuvered through a rising, then falling, interest rate environment, and a volatile but ultimately well-performing equity market. Periods of…

December 17, 2023 - The tremendous rally in equities and risk assets in November, spurred by declining interest rates and the most significant easing of financial conditions in four decades, was led by the lowest-quality stocks. Last month, top-ranked Canadian stocks gained 3.4% while the top-decile U.S.-listed…