Insight is Capital™ Podcast

Our conversation with Resolve Asset Management's Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo. We discuss how in little more than 10 weeks we have gone from "What's going on with the market? Is the world ending?" to "What's going on with the market? Why isn't the world ending?" Investors have a second chance now in the midst of the COVID-19 shutdown shock, the biggest single economic event of our lifetimes, to revisit their portfolio construction, and to reconstruct their portfolios so as to capture the highest realized risk adjusted returns, and all but eliminate their exposure to 4-standard deviation, black swan type market events. Full Transcript

Michael Greenberg, Vice-President and Portfolio Manager, at Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions joins us to talk about his perspective on COVID-19 shocked markets, and his outlook on markets, behavioural finance, rebalancing, and opportunities. Full transcript

Our conversation with Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management, about macro, micro, and mini-micro market and economic considerations in the present and his clear-eyed expectations of what the future holds, post-COVID-19.  

Our conversation with Judy Paradi and Paulette Filion, partners at StrategyMarketing.ca, and co-authors of the terrific new book, “Invest in HER, The Smart Financial Advisor’s Guide to Winning Female Clients.” According to numerous studies, women are on course to control about half of all accumulated wealth in Canada within the next decade. The financial industry, though, which remains dominated by males, has been slow to evolve in light of this extraordinary socio-economic trend. This isn’t the 60’s anymore. Women are getting elected to government, they are gaining an influential foothold on Boards of Directors. They start businesses, they are terrific consumers. Women are expected to live longer than men. – Today women account for 62% of University graduates – Women represent almost half of all practicing lawyers and accountants, more than 60% of all new physicians, and are the main breadwinners in 40% of all households. In their new book, Invest (in) HER, The Smart Financial Advisor’s Guide to Winning Female Clients, they say advisors are missing the obvious – they have failed to see that their future success depends on women – of every age and background.  

Our conversation with Capital Markets Strategist, Guy Haselmann, on COVID-19's market, economic and social shock, and contemplating what the exit from the economic shutdown may look like, and how it may reshape things.

Sandy Liang, Portfolio Manager of the Purpose Credit Opportunities Fund, Purpose Investments shares his expert critique on the differences and similarities between the 2008 and 2020 Bond and Credit Market Crisis. In our conversation, Sandy Liang provides valuable insight on how the credit market works, his fund's defensive posture going into the drawdown, and the correction/opportunity set that has revealed itself.

Mark Noble, EVP, Horizons ETFs, and Head of ETF Strategy joins us for this in-depth conversation. We explore some controversial long-time questions about ETFs, equity and fixed income markets liquidity in the context of the high-speed COVID-19 pandemic market panic, in this honest discussion about whether or not ETFs have been a blessing or a curse to capital markets. Transcript (coming soon)

David Picton, President and Portfolio Manager, Picton Mahoney Asset Management, joined us at the CETFA Mindpath ETF Conference. The lifespan and sustainability of the 60/40 portfolio has been a subject great debate as both equity and bond markets ascend the late end of this market cycle. Investors are facing high equity valuations, low dividend yields, and low bond yields. Risk is rising, while expectations of future returns from both equities and bonds get cut. In this enlightening conversation, David Picton shares his thoughts on the 60/40 portfolio, as well shedding light on what advisors and investors can do in the face of this challenging market environment, including how to make sense of using alternative investments. Copyright © AdvisorAnalyst.com

Daniel Straus, Vice President, Head of ETF Research and Strategy, at National Bank Financial, joined us for an insightful conversation about the the trends that are shaping the retail investment advice landscape in Canada. Canada, birthplace of the first ETF (turning 30 in 2020), is also now the world leader in development and adoption of actively managed ETFs. We talk about the fundamental reason and differences that have enabled the Canadian market to foster financial innovation. It's revealing for the future of the financial industry that Canadian investors are gravitating toward actively managed equity and bond ETFs. ETF authority Daniel Straus weighs in on this and more. Copyright © AdvisorAnalyst.com

Rodrigo Gordillo and Mike Philbrick, co-founders of Resolve Asset Management contend that it's time to get comfortable being uncomfortable. We're late in the cycle, bond yields are at lows, equity valuations are very high, and that means long term investment returns from the conventional 60/40 equity bond portfolio have a high probability of being lower than expected, and that near-term downside risk is proportionately higher. When your clients think about risk they most often recall or imagine losing money or enduring volatile markets. You, as an advisor, however, have to widen your perspective on risk to include your clients' feelings about their investments, and the potential decisions they may make as a result. Your clients' greatest risk is the probability they won't meet their financial goals – it rests upon you, their advisor, to minimize this risk. How do you do that? What actions, what decisions, what conversations are required in order for you, as an advisor, to minimize the possibility that your clients won't achieve their objectives? Here, in this podcast episode, we take a deep dive into this dilemma, which may change some of your perspectives about how to tackle the key risk facing your clients and by proxy you, and to shed some light on how to overcome and succeed.