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Insight is Capital™ Podcast — 271 episodes

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From Wall Street Executive to Financial Thriller Novelist | Kristine Delano

2

Why 0% in Bitcoin & Blockchain is Actually a Riskier Bet Than 1%

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The Folly of Trusting Your Own Mind With Money | Dr. Preet Banerjee

4

Animal Spirits vs. The Seasonal Rotation Calendar | Brooke Thackray

5

David Dziekanski: The End of the Options-Based Income ETF Trade-Off

6

David Varadi: The Early Years of Retirement Are The Most Dangerous

7

The ETF Terrordome: Why 1 in 3 New Funds Will Never Survive

8

Justin Huhn: Uranium is the Missing Layer Beneath the AI Trade

9

She Watches Billions in ETF Flows Every Day. What's Going On Behind the Screens?

10

Why Half a Million People Trust PWL Capital CIO, Ben Felix

11

Canada's ETF Surge is Structural, not Cyclical | Ronald Landry

12

Larry Swedroe: The Adaptive Market & The Undiversified Investor

13

Adriano Starinieri - No Filters, No Pitch, No Advisor

14

The Covered Call ETF Gap | Zed Francis and Devin Anderson

15

Joe Canavan on Wealth, Risk, and Canada's Next Chapter

16

Dave Nadig: The ETF Bubble Nobody is Talking About

17

Humble Process, Extraordinary Results—The Brian Belski Way

18

The Portfolio Nobody Told You to Build | Tony Dong

19

Paisley Nardini Most Investors Have No Idea Their Portfolio is Missing This

20

Due Diligence Isn't Optional in Alternatives Investing—The Performance Gap Makes That Clear

21

You can't eat total return—the income investing playbook is being rewritten | Jillian Delsignore

22

Paul Kornfeld: Don't Fight the Market—Align With It

23

The Four Piston Portfolio: Why diversification needs an engine, not just a label

24

The Party Always Ends: How to Build a Portfolio for the Morning After | Meb Faber

25

How CRM3 Turns Transparency into Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

26

Daily Premiums, Smarter Income: The Case for ODTE Covered Calls in a Modern Portfolio with Nicolas Piquard

27

DoubleLine's Jeffrey Sherman: This Isn't a TACO Trade

28

Alfonso Peccatiello: You're not diversified. You just think you are.

29

Cole Smead: Manias, Margins, and the Case for Canadian Oil

30

Rotation, Int'l Stocks, Defense-Tech, Japan, USD and the Gold Gap with Jeremy Schwartz and Jeff Weniger

31

Dan White-From AI Hype to Reality—Investing in the Great Acceleration

32

Private Markets Are Reshaping Wealth-Are Canadian Portfolios Ready with Clay Khan

33

AI is Splitting the Market - The Hidden Winners Beyond NVIDIA with Ivana Delevska

34

Dennis Mitchell When Diversification Matters - The Case for Global Real Estate

35

Energy Is Destiny: War, China, Gold, Canada & the 60/40 Era

36

AI, Defense, and a New Private Markets Playbook with Ash Lawrence

37

Energy Copper and Gold ETFs and a World Running Out of Slack with Tony Dong

38

Why Millions of Canadians Never Make it to Financial Advice

39

How Pros Really Think About Risk, Probability, and Markets with Kris Abdelmessih

40

AGF's David Stonehouse: A Narrower Path Forward for Markets in 2026

41

Leslie Alba: Positioning Portfolios Purposefully—Lessons from CIBC AM's $90B Head of Portfolio Solutions

42

Wealth as a Means, Not a Goal: Investing With Intention in a Polarized World with Tim Nash

43

Wealth Partnership and Purpose with Doug and Heather Boneparth

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Building Portfolios That Never Say Sorry with Kinsted's Brent Smith

45

The Global ETF Boom and Upcoming Toronto ETFGI Global ETFs Summit with Deborah Fuhr

46

Investment Grade CLOs—A secure path to yield and resilience with Mark Jarosz

47

Rich Mindset vs. Poor Mindset—The Psychological Divide with Dr. Brad Klontz

48

Future-Proof Wealth: How First Avenue is Redefining Wealth Management Advice

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Why EQ beats IQ in Wealth Management with Shana Sissel

50

Peter Berezin: Is this the Wile E. Coyote moment for investors?

51

Private Investments Come of Age - Opportunity and Balance Unlocked

52

Ilan Kolet | From US Exceptionalism to Canadian Realism Fidelity's Global Recalibration

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ETFs, Advisors, and the Next Trillion: Inside the Minds of Two Industry Leaders

54

The 4th Turning of Markets: Paradigm C, Inflation, Debt & Investing in 2025 with Darius Dale

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CRM3 (TCR) - More than compliance - It's a chance to define your value

56

Ric Edelman - A Real Risk - Not owning bitcoin

57

Alfred Lee: Constructive But Cautious—Navigating the market's crosscurrents

58

Stacking Strategic Gold and Bitcoin with RSSX with ReSolve's Mike Philbrick

59

The Sh*tty Leader Inside Us All: Mark Robinson's Lessons in Real Leadership

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Top Heavy Markets, Fragile Portfolios: How to Break Free of the Mag-7 Trap with Ahmed Farooq

61

Inside the Minds of Canadian Investors - Survey Findings Every Advisor Should Know with Sam Febbraro

62

ETFs That Overlay Carry: Adding Alpha to Portfolios Without Subtracting Core Exposure with Adam Butler

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How to Add Trend Following Alpha Without Sacrificing Your Core Portfolio with Rodrigo Gordillo

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Corey Hoffstein: Merger Arbitrage Isn’t Just for Institutions Anymore — Here’s How You Can Use It

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Canada built the ETF—now it risks losing the industry to the U.S. — How CETFA means to reverse the trend

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Outsmart the 60/40 Trap: How Return Stacking Changes the Game

67

Bond Voyage! Saying Goodbye to Traditional Diversifiers with Tony Dong

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Innovation and Trends in the Canadian ETF Market with Ronald Landry

69

The India Stack: The Case for Investing in India's Booming Tech Sector with Kevin Carter

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EMQQ Global's Kevin Carter: A Serial Investech Pioneer Walks into Princeton University

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The Trump Put & How ETFs are Shaping Wild Markets with Eric Balchunas

72

Doomberg: Policy Uncertainty is The New Systemic Risk

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Elbows Up: Fidelity's Strategic Pivot Amid US Policy Uncertainty | Ilan Kolet

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Return Stacking: Diversification Without Sacrifice

75

ETF Views: Factors, Alts, Derivative Onions & Bugs with Tony Dong

76

The ETF Industry's Hidden Risks with Dave Nadig

77

Paisley Nardini: Outlook—Time for Tail Risk Protection?

78

Som Seif: Debunking Private Markets - Opportunities and Myths

79

Private Markets: Opportunities and Risks in a Transitional Financial Landscape

80

The Power of Raising Literacy in Canada with Mélanie Valcin

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Pressing Investment Questions for 2025 with Ilan Kolet

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The 2025 Marketing Guide for Financial Advisors with Samantha Russell

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Are Markets overestimating 2025 Investment Opportunities with Aahan Menon

84

Rethinking Wealth: Unlocking the Power of Private Markets

85

Women and Alts: A Global Perspective with Barbara Stewart, CFA

86

Mario Cianfarani: Canadians love their advisors - but Gen Z and Millenials are shaking things up

87

Doomberg: Trump, Energy Policy and Geopolitical Uncertainty

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Stop Competing with Markets! Do this instead - Larry Swedroe

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Fidelity's Ilan Kolet: Investing for Soft and Hard Landings into 2024. How?

90

NBI's Martin Lefebvre: Q4 2024-2025 Market and Economic Outlook

91

Shana Sissel – From Long/Short to Long Sports: Exploring Unique Uncorrelated Alternative Investments

92

Todd Finkle: A Fresh Take on Warren Buffett

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Macro Outlook and Defensive Investing Strategies with Bob Elliott

94

Justin Huhn: The Generational Bull Case for Uranium

95

Mutiny's Jason Buck on Navigating Volatility: Defense? How? Why Now?

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FactSet's Elisabeth Kashner – The Scoop: Deep ETF Trends Insights

97

Som Seif Investment Review and Outlook - Positioning for Unclear Markets

98

Joel Litman: Market Review & Outlook–"GAAP is not truth or reality" for investors

99

Steve Hawkins Returns: Innovation and the Future of ETFs

100

National Bank's Daniel Straus: Extraordinary ETF Insights, Outlook

101

Fidelity's Ilan Kolet: Investment Outlook–Harnessing Liquid Alternatives

102

How Unlimited's Bob Elliott is Making Hedge Funds Accessible to Everyone

103

Brooke Thackray: Seasonal Rotation – Time to rotate?

104

WisdomTree: Navigating These Unusual Market and Economic Signals

105

Starlight's Dennis Mitchell: Outlook 2024 – Diverse Bets for Uncertainty

106

SIACharts' Paul Kornfeld - Buy the dip, or sell the rip? Are we at a turning point?

107

Toby Carlisle - Value Investing is Simple, Not Easy

108

Aubrey Basdeo: More Coupon, Less Duration

109

Doomberg Decodes: Pumpamentals, Market Riddles, Energy, Gold/China, Uranium & Canada

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Bill Bamber, BMO GAM CEO: "A generational shift in accessing structured investment payoffs"

111

Vanguard's Mario Cianfarani: Three Challenges for 2024

112

Fidelity's Ilan Kolet – 11 Questions for 2024

113

John De Goey - Investing ahead of unknown market risks

114

Fidelity's Ilan Kolet: 2024 Macro and Investment Outlook

115

Dino Bourdos: Is the yield on your covered call fund too good?

116

Deep Dive into Global Economic and Market Outlook, and AI's Role with Joaquin Kritz Lara

117

Michael Robbins: Ever seen a bad backtest?

118

Investment Insights from WisdomTree's Jeremy Schwartz & Jeff Weniger

119

Nicolas Piquard: Monetizing Volatility in Bonds (a First) & Equities

120

Darius Dale 42 Macro - Looking Back, Looking Forward to 2024

121

NBI's Terry Dimock: Governance in Portfolio Management Through Several Angles

122

Doomberg: Separating Fact from Fiction

123

Mega-Cap Dominance and Sector-Specific Recovery - What to watch w/ Paul Kornfeld, SIACharts

124

Risk Mitigating Strategies Framework - Jason Josephiac & Ryan Lobdell

125

Hugh Hendry on China, Mag-7, Bubbles, Inflation, Bonds & Bitcoin

126

2023 Fidelity Retirement Report: Rising costs shake Canadians' Retirement Optimism

127

Private Assets & The High Net Worth Attraction

128

Cole Smead: The Game Has Changed – What About You?

129

Paul Kornfeld: What Are The Charts Saying About Markets?

130

Deep, Wide Moats & The Art of Investing in Unwanted Assets

131

Mark Noble: Yield Producing Asset Strategies – Why Now?

132

Return Stacking: Strategy for A Low Return Environment

133

Jeffrey Sherman: Tight Credit, Sticky Inflation, Bad Breadth... What Else?

134

Dave Nadig: "Pick your favorite crisis – they're all interconnected."

135

ChatGPT, AI, Systemic Risk & The Case for Dividends

136

Aubrey Basdeo: Bank Breakages, Inflation & Fixed Income Strategy

137

John De Goey – Complacency, Optimism Bias & Investment Risk

138

Impulses Driving Risk Appetite are Likely Transitory, feat. Aahan Menon

139

The Importance of Attracting and Engaging Millennial Clients with Justin Castelli

140

Mike Green: The Fed Overreacted to 2022's Inflation Pulse. Now what?

141

137 Alfred Lee – 2023 Outlook & Strategy: 50 / 30 / 20

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Erika Toth - ETFs, Credentials, Strategies & Advisory Tools: Level Up Your Competitiveness

143

Alfonso Peccatiello: Macro 301 – Behind today's most crucial macroeconomic, market concerns

144

Richard Heft: How to add gravity to your client communications

145

Richard Heft: Markets, Inflation, and Missing the Point on ESG

146

132 Barometer's David Burrows: Whats What in This Stormy and Tricky Market?

147

The Diversification Power of Real Liquid Alternatives with Jeff Evans and Travis Wetsch, TD Asset Management

148

Darius Dale & Jason Del Vicario: Are Inflation Fears Overblown?

149

Solving the "Nastiest Hardest Problem in Finance" – Barry Gordon and Dr. Moshe A. Milevsky

150

128 NBI's Martin Lefebvre: Bullish vs. Bearish: Who will win the next round?

151

127 What Diversification Play Tackles a Stagflation Blitz? The HRAA Playbook

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126 Jason Buck: Defensive Diversification & The Cockroach Portfolio

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125 Dividend Payers and Growers: Resilient During Periods of High Inflation and Rising Rates

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124 Meb Faber: The Problem with Long Term Investing

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123 The Intended and Unforeseen Opportunities of ESG

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Ivana Delevska - Investment Thesis for Industrial Technology Stocks

157

120 Value Stocks Are Back w/ Stephen Jenkins and Jackie Au

158

Nicolas Piquard: The Lowdown on Uranium, Lithium & Carbon

159

Key Investment Themes in Tumultuous '22

160

Does Seasonal Rotation Work?

161

115 Canadian ETF Trends 2022 Update w/ Ronald Landry, CIBC Mellon

162

113 Eric Balchunas' The Bogle Effect

163

112 Andrew Beer on Simplifying Managed Futures and Liquid Alts Exposure

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111 Investing in Technology Leaders of Today and Tomorrow in 2022?

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110 Hugh Hendry: War Europe Inflation U.S. China Dislocations Bonds Equities Carbon Metaverse

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109 Kim Shannon: Value Investing, Inflation & Canadian Equities

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108 Hugh Hendry: Big Macro Fault Lines

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107 2022 ETF Market Review and Macro Landscape with Daniel Straus, National Bank Financial

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106 Making Sense of Sustainable Investing with Jon Aikman & Dr. Sean Cleary

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105 How ETFs Are Changing the Way We Invest with Deborah Fuhr, ETFGI

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104 Kim Shannon: Inflation, Value Investing & Canada Now

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103 Crypto: Still Early Innings with Ric Edelman

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102 A Sea of D's in 2022 w/ Darius Dale and Mary Hagerman

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Ep. 100 Multi-Asset Strategies: Making Your Money Work Harder and Smarter

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99 Huber's New Almanac of Alternative Investments

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97 Preet Banerjee - What is Advice Worth?

177

96 New Ways to Optimize Retirement with David Blanchett & Michael Finke Ph.D.

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95 Mary Hagerman: The Black Belt Advisor

179

94 Jeff Bradacs: How Market Neutral Strategies Fit Into Investor Portfolios

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93 Mike Green: Stock Markets Are Less Efficient, and More 'Inelastic.' What does that mean?

181

92 Simplify's Michael Green: The Un-Consensus on Today's Macro & Inflation

182

91 SIACharts' Paul Kornfeld on Actionable, Investment Decision-Making Tools, At Scale, for Advisors

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90 Canada's Leading VC: Back From the Brink & Keeping Canadian Innovation Canadian

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89 Unlocking Total Return & Yield From Dividends, Growth, and Options with Ben Gossack and Trevor Cummings, TD Asset Management

185

88 ESG: What Difference Does It Make?

186

87 David Rosenberg: Take Off Your 'Rosie' Coloured Glasses

187

Ep 86 Jeffrey Sherman – Macro-View: How to Protect and Profit in This Bizarre Market

188

Ep 85 Return Stacking: Strategies for Overcoming a Low Return Environment

189

Ep 84 The Future of Advisor Marketing Today with Richard Heft and Andrew Broadhead

190

Ep 82 Phil Mesman: Event-Driven Credit Investing

191

Ep 80 Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Capital - Macro Outlook – How Should Investors be Positioning?

192

Ep 79 Pt. 1 Annamaria Testani - Creating Value as an Advisor Through 'Active Listening'

193

Ep 79 Pt. 2 Annamaria Testani - Reframing and Defining Your Value as an Advisor

194

Ep 79 Pt. 3 Annamaria Testani - Always be Adapting Your Value to Conquer Disruptive Change

195

78 Justin Castelli on Personal Brand Building for Advisors & Onramp

196

77 Nicolas Piquard on The Bull Case for Uranium (and Uranium Stocks)

197

76 Matt Hougan on What Bitcoin Does to Portfolios

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75 Wade Guenther on An Innovative Approach to Investing in Gold (Raise Your Average)

199

Ep. 74 Eric Crittenden on The Magic of All-Weather Investing

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Ep. 73 Atul Tiwari on The Case for Investing in Fine Wine as an Alternative Asset Class (RYA Edition)

201

Ep. 72 Steve Hawkins – The Secret Sauce of Horizons ETFs (Raise Your Average)

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Ep. 71 'Running Money' – Jason Mann and Mike Newton Walk Into a Zoom (RYA Ep. 12)

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Ep. 70 Ted Seides, Capital Allocators – Investing Lessons from Decades Interviewing Elite Money Managers

204

Ep. 69 'Timing Luck' and Liquidity Cascades with Corey Hoffstein, Newfound Research (Raise Your Average)

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Ep. 68 On Running Canada's Most Successful Family Office – Arthur Salzer, CIO, Northland Wealth Management

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67 Brief Version – Clients Expect Advisors to Lead Them on Responsible Investment

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67 Clients Expect Advisors to Lead Them on Responsible Investment

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Ep. 66 Raise Your Average with Mark Noble, Executive VP, Horizons ETFs

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Ep. 65 How to Overcome Six Modern Advisor Practice Challenges – Richard Heft, Andrew Broadhead on The Ascendant Advisor

210

Ep. 64 Som Seif, Purpose Investments on the World's First Bitcoin and Ether ETFs

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Ep. 63 Raise Your Average with Jason Buck CIO Mutiny Fund

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Ep. 62 Raise Your Average with Lyn Alden, Lyn Alden Investment Strategy

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Ep. 61 Raise Your Average with Alex Shahidi and Damien Bisserier, Co-CIOs, Evoke Advisors

214

Ep 59 Raise Your Average with Wesley Gray, PhD, CEO, Alpha Architect

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Ep 58 Raise Your Average with Nancy Davis, Quadratic Capital Management LLC

216

Ep 57 Raise Your Average with Dave Nadig and Tim Nash – ESG: (What's it to you?)

217

Ep 56 Raise Your Average with Meb Faber and Marc Dalpé – The 60/40 Portfolio Puzzle

218

Ep. 54 Som Seif and Greg Taylor, Purpose Investments

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Ep. 53 Sri Iyer, Guardian Capital

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Ep. 52 Candice Bangsund, Fiera Capital

221

Ep. 51 Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios

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Ep. 50 Hans Albrecht and Nicolas Piquard, Horizons ETFs

223

Ep. 49 Steve Hawkins, President and CEO, Horizons ETFs

224

Ep. 48 Adam Butler, Resolve Asset Management

225

Ep. 47 Brooke Thackray: What is Seasonal Investing?

226

Ep. 46 Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo, Resolve AM

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Ep. 45 Michael Greenberg: Rebalance? Yes, but where?

228

Ep. 44 Hubert Marleau: Macro, Micro, and Mini-Micro – Now and Post-Pandemic

229

Ep. 43 Paulette Filion and Judy Paradi: Advisors' Future Success Depends on Keeping Women Engaged

230

Ep. 42 Guy Haselmann: How World Order Looks After COVID-19

231

Ep. 41 Sandy Liang: The Correction/Opportunity Set of 2020's Bond and Credit Market Crisis

232

Ep. 40 Mark Noble: Did ETFs Pass the Pandemic Sell-Off Test?

233

David Picton: Is the 60/40 Portfolio Dead?

234

Daniel Straus: Canadians Lead the World in ETF Innovation

235

Time to get comfortable being uncomfortable

236

Som Seif: Conventional Fixed Income Will Be High Risk, Low Return

237

Dan Richards: How to be the most valuable advisor to clients

238

Goshka Folda: What will make you the irreplaceable advisor?

239

Jason Del Vicario: The Journey to Discretionary Portfolio Manager

240

Greg Taylor: Outlook for Cannabis, Energy, and Banking

241

David Rosenberg: In depth on Canada, U.S., and Global Economy and Markets

242

Som Seif: How has Q1's Volatility Changed Your Market Outlook?

243

Dan Kelley: The Opportunity in Founder-Led Companies

244

Sandy Liang: The Credit Risk Thesis for Investors Seeking Yield in a Rising Rate Market

245

Sandy Liang: A Leading High Yield Fund Manager's Front Row Seat at the Financial Crisis

246

Tom O'Gorman: Where are the Fixed Income Opportunities?

247

Tom O'Gorman: Are China's Large Forex Bond Purchases the Fed's Unwinding White Knight?

248

Tom O'Gorman: Are central banks caught between a pillar and a post?

249

Tom O'Gorman: Is the bond market right about the economy?

250

Stephen Lingard: Multi-Asset Outlook for 2018 (Full Interview)

251

Stephen Lingard: Where are the opportunities?

252

Stephen Lingard: Has Low Dispersion in Index Stocks Made Active Investing Harder?

253

Stephen Lingard: Why is the return of volatility heralded by active investors?

254

Stephen Lingard: Undoing 'The Giant Monetary Experiment'

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Stephen Lingard: Is there a connection between volatility and inflation?

256

Stephen Lingard: Investors did have a long memory about 2008

257

Stephen Lingard: Multi-Asset Outlook for 2018 – Anticipating the Return of Volatility

258

Dan Dupont: What are your outlook and plans for 2018, and thoughts for your investors?

259

Dan Dupont: "I am unwavering in my focus on downside protection"

260

Dan Dupont: "Bad deals are made in good times, and these are excessively good times"

261

Dan Dupont: "Credit is like oxygen. You don't think about until it's gone."

262

Dan Dupont: How did your childhood in rural Québec prepare you as a portfolio manager?

263

What defines the Frontier Emerging Markets Opportunity?

264

The Gift from Senior Emerging Markets. Structural 'Share Gainers.'

265

Former Dictatorships are Fertile Ground for Today's Investors

266

What are the 'Four Neighbours?'

267

The Biggest IPO in World History is Coming? What does it mean?

268

Risk Management: Are you long-only in this market?

269

Is Good Economic News Still Bad News for Stock Markets?

270

Is This The Most Uncomfortable Bull Market in History?

271

Is Warren Buffett the Pied Piper of Indexing?