April Market Insights: Bretton Woods 2.0, the New Great Game, and Trump
March 31, 2026 Here begins the Great Game Download this PDF here. U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term is not just another burst of tariff theatre; it is the opening move in a new great game over energy, artificial intelligence (AI), and money. By neutralizing Iran and Venezuela, squeezing Cuba, binding Canada, and courting […]
March Market Insights: There is no Bronze Medal
March 4, 2026 AI capex is America’s industrial rearmament “There’s only two cultures that are going to win in the next year. It’s going to be us or China.” – Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Download this PDF here. “There’s only two cultures that are going to win in the next year. It’s going […]
February Market Insights: Fortress America and the Colony Next Door
February 4, 2026 We are living through historic times Justice is only in question between equals; for the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. – Thucydides, ancient Greek historian Download this PDF here. Historians are likely to regard Donald Trump’s presidency as a pivot—as significant as any in […]
January Market Insights: The 2026 Market Forecast
January 6, 2026 The baton is being passed “The history of markets is one of overreaction in both directions.” – Peter Bernstein Download this PDF here. When the cycle breaks History does not move in straight lines. Markets ricochet between excess and restraint in violent cycles, a truth American economist Peter Bernstein hammered home and […]
December Market Insights: 2026 and the King Dollar Revival
December 4, 2025 Why Trump’s policies will power America’s financial supremacy in a multipolar era “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” – Mark Twain Download this PDF here. Rumours of the U.S. dollar’s decline are as persistent as they are exaggerated. In 2025, one fact stands out: The global U.S. dollar system—“King Dollar”[1]—is […]
Highlights from the 2025 Federal Budget
Download this article as a PDF On November 4, 2025, Finance Minister and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the much-anticipated 2025 Federal Budget (Budget 2025). With no spring budget earlier this year, Canadians have been eager for insights into the government’s fiscal priorities and economic direction. Our Advanced Wealth Planning Group has summarized the […]
November Market Insights: Wealth In A Capex Supercycle
October 30, 2025 Fuller’s energy-intelligence fusion, McLuhan’s tool-building refrain, and in search of the Holy Grail “Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.” – attributed to Buckminster Fuller Download this PDF here. Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy channeled into artifacts that enhance […]
October Market Insights: Trump, Carney and the Western Awakening
October 1, 2025 A new era for Canada is about to begin “I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word ‘foreign’. I say this because when I […]
September Market Insights: Bull Markets, Peace Dividends, and the Federal Reserve’s Next War
September 4, 2025 Investing at the crossroads of history “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon, The Essays (1597) Download this PDF here. The edge of transformation Bacon’s wisdom, that true prosperity is won by strategic preparation, not by accident, serves as the north star for sophisticated investors navigating […]
August Market Insights: The Unreasonable Rally
August 12, 2025 Why America’s reset could propel the S&P 500 to 7,500 “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists Download this PDF here. The new American […]