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Economic Indicators
Global economic growth is expected to pick up modestly in 2018, but there are hurdles.
By Staff |March 7, 2017
3 min read
Market Insights
When active investing is measured against passive investing, the winner is neither or both. Or, it depends how you look at it. In an attempt to declare a winner, research analysis firm Dalbar looked beyond theory and instead measured the impact investments have on investors’ wallets. The research found that, over a shorter term of […]
By Staff |March 6, 2017
2 min read
Industry
In a release, CoPower Inc. says the first tranche of its $20-million issuance of green bonds is now available to individual investors.
By Staff |March 3, 2017
1 min read
More clients are identifying their “long term” investing horizon as less than five years, says a new survey by AMG Funds. The poll of affluent U.S. investors by the U.S. retail arm of AMG, a global asset manager, says 86% of U.S. investors claim they have a long-term outlook, but when asked how they define […]
By Staff |March 2, 2017
Look for both income and capital appreciation when investing in infrastructure stocks.
By Sarah Cunningham-Scharf |March 2, 2017
Forty-one of Morningstar Canada’s 44 fund indices increased during the month of February, reveals a preliminary report by Morningstar Research. In fact, 20 indices increased by more than 2%. The indices measure the aggregate returns of funds in various standard categories. Most stock market indices outside Canada were positive in February, while the Canadian dollar […]
Saskatchewan and Manitoba are now the two most attractive jurisdictions for mining investment in the world, finds the Fraser Institute in its annual global survey of mining executives. The survey rates 104 jurisdictions around the world based on both their geologic and policy attractiveness. The two Canadian provinces beat out Western Australia, which fell from […]
By Staff |March 1, 2017
ETFGI says assets invested in smart beta equity ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a new record high US$534 billion at the end of January 2017.
By Staff |February 28, 2017
A look at small caps versus large caps in the U.S.
By Sarah Cunningham-Scharf |February 27, 2017
The one-year forward P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is 17.7, reports Factset. That’s the greatest level since 2004. “The only time one-year multiples were higher in recent memory was during the tech craze of the late 1990s,” says Avery Shenfeld, chief economist at CIBC Capital Markets, in an economics report. “And that didn’t end […]
By Staff |February 27, 2017
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