Apr 13, 2023 | Monthly Commentaries
“Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable.” Phil Jackson It seems this year, March Madness was not restricted to college basketball, with the excitement and unpredictability of the tournament spilling off the courts and into financial markets. As the NCAA’s...Mar 10, 2023 | Monthly Commentaries
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.” Charles Dickens Boring old bonds have been anything but lately. Investors that were lured back into fixed income have been treated to some wild bouts of volatility, with the pendulum swinging from one extreme to...Feb 8, 2023 | Monthly Commentaries
“What’s love but a secondhand emotion?” Tina Turner On the fourteenth day of this month, romantics across the globe will celebrate what Plato once called theia mania, the divine madness. While the origins of Valentine’s Day lie in ancient Rome, the first...Jan 11, 2023 | Monthly Commentaries
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” Evan Esar The passage of one year into the next is marked by some interesting customs and traditions. Americans watch the ball drop, Spaniards eat...Dec 6, 2022 | Monthly Commentaries
“Tomorrow is promised to no one.” Clint Eastwood One More Sleep. Every Canadian bond nerd has tomorrow circled in their calendar. It is the day the Bank of Canada (BoC) delivers its latest installment in what has been an aggressive series of rate increases. So far...Oct 11, 2022 | Monthly Commentaries
“They’re back.” Poltergeist After a long and dormant hiatus, it seems that ‘bond vigilantes’ are making a comeback. The term, first coined in the early 80s by Ed Yardeni, refers to investors selling bonds to drive up yields and thus a government’s borrowing costs. It...
