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Insight is Capital™ Podcast — 282 episodes

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1

Ric Edelman: What everyone gets wrong about Bitcoin in 2026

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The Credibility Dividend: Why Finfluencers are Making Real Advisors More Valuable Not Less | Stephanie Wolfe

3

Convergence Investing Comes of Age: BMO Strategic Equity Yield Fund at Three Years

4

Doomberg: Energy, AI, and the Calls Nobody Else Made

5

The Risk That Isn't in the Retirement Plan: Markets Recover, Cyber Fraud Doesn't

6

Ash Lawrence: Capital, Conviction, and the Long View

7

Is the Biggest Investing Solution Becoming the Market's Biggest Problem?

8

Returns Are a Commodity—Stop Selling the Plumbing | Som Seif

9

The Tax Alpha Gap: 260 Basis Points Hiding in Plain Sight | Ray Carroll

10

The CIO's View: What Changed, What Held, What's Next? | Chhad Aul

11

The Gap in Every Client File: The Conversation Advisors Keep Skipping

12

From Wall Street Executive to Financial Thriller Novelist | Kristine Delano

13

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

15

Animal Spirits vs. The Seasonal Rotation Calendar | Brooke Thackray

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

Larry Swedroe: The Adaptive Market & The Undiversified Investor

24

Adriano Starinieri - No Filters, No Pitch, No Advisor

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The Covered Call ETF Gap | Zed Francis and Devin Anderson

26

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

27

Dave Nadig: The ETF Bubble Nobody is Talking About

28

Humble Process, Extraordinary Results—The Brian Belski Way

29

The Portfolio Nobody Told You to Build | Tony Dong

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

How CRM3 Turns Transparency into Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

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

48

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

49

Why Millions of Canadians Never Make it to Financial Advice

50

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

51

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

52

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

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

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Wealth Partnership and Purpose with Doug and Heather Boneparth

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

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

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

58

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

59

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

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

62

Private Investments Come of Age - Opportunity and Balance Unlocked

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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

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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

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Ric Edelman - A Real Risk - Not owning bitcoin

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

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

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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

72

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

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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

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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

80

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

81

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

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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

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

87

The ETF Industry's Hidden Risks with Dave Nadig

88

Paisley Nardini: Outlook—Time for Tail Risk Protection?

89

Som Seif: Debunking Private Markets - Opportunities and Myths

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Private Markets: Opportunities and Risks in a Transitional Financial Landscape

91

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

95

Rethinking Wealth: Unlocking the Power of Private Markets

96

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

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

98

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?

101

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

102

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

103

Todd Finkle: A Fresh Take on Warren Buffett

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Macro Outlook and Defensive Investing Strategies with Bob Elliott

105

Justin Huhn: The Generational Bull Case for Uranium

106

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

108

Som Seif Investment Review and Outlook - Positioning for Unclear Markets

109

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

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Steve Hawkins Returns: Innovation and the Future of ETFs

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

Brooke Thackray: Seasonal Rotation – Time to rotate?

115

WisdomTree: Navigating These Unusual Market and Economic Signals

116

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

117

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

118

Toby Carlisle - Value Investing is Simple, Not Easy

119

Aubrey Basdeo: More Coupon, Less Duration

120

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"

122

Vanguard's Mario Cianfarani: Three Challenges for 2024

123

Fidelity's Ilan Kolet – 11 Questions for 2024

124

John De Goey - Investing ahead of unknown market risks

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Fidelity's Ilan Kolet: 2024 Macro and Investment Outlook

126

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

127

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

128

Michael Robbins: Ever seen a bad backtest?

129

Investment Insights from WisdomTree's Jeremy Schwartz & Jeff Weniger

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

Doomberg: Separating Fact from Fiction

134

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

135

Risk Mitigating Strategies Framework - Jason Josephiac & Ryan Lobdell

136

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

137

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

138

Private Assets & The High Net Worth Attraction

139

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

140

Paul Kornfeld: What Are The Charts Saying About Markets?

141

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

142

Mark Noble: Yield Producing Asset Strategies – Why Now?

143

Return Stacking: Strategy for A Low Return Environment

144

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

145

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

146

ChatGPT, AI, Systemic Risk & The Case for Dividends

147

Aubrey Basdeo: Bank Breakages, Inflation & Fixed Income Strategy

148

John De Goey – Complacency, Optimism Bias & Investment Risk

149

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

150

The Importance of Attracting and Engaging Millennial Clients with Justin Castelli

151

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

152

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

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

154

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

155

Richard Heft: How to add gravity to your client communications

156

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

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

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

162

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

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

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Nicolas Piquard: The Lowdown on Uranium, Lithium & Carbon

170

Key Investment Themes in Tumultuous '22

171

Does Seasonal Rotation Work?

172

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

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113 Eric Balchunas' The Bogle Effect

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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?

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

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95 Mary Hagerman: The Black Belt Advisor

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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?

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

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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

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88 ESG: What Difference Does It Make?

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

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

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

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

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Ep 82 Phil Mesman: Event-Driven Credit Investing

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

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

204

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

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

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78 Justin Castelli on Personal Brand Building for Advisors & Onramp

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

208

76 Matt Hougan on What Bitcoin Does to Portfolios

209

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

210

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)

212

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

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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

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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

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

226

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

227

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

228

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

229

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

232

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

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Ep. 50 Hans Albrecht and Nicolas Piquard, Horizons ETFs

234

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

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Ep. 48 Adam Butler, Resolve Asset Management

236

Ep. 47 Brooke Thackray: What is Seasonal Investing?

237

Ep. 46 Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo, Resolve AM

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

239

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

240

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

241

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

242

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

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

244

David Picton: Is the 60/40 Portfolio Dead?

245

Daniel Straus: Canadians Lead the World in ETF Innovation

246

Time to get comfortable being uncomfortable

247

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

248

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

249

Goshka Folda: What will make you the irreplaceable advisor?

250

Jason Del Vicario: The Journey to Discretionary Portfolio Manager

251

Greg Taylor: Outlook for Cannabis, Energy, and Banking

252

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

253

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

254

Dan Kelley: The Opportunity in Founder-Led Companies

255

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

256

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

257

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

258

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

259

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

260

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

261

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

262

Stephen Lingard: Where are the opportunities?

263

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

264

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

265

Stephen Lingard: Undoing 'The Giant Monetary Experiment'

266

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

267

Stephen Lingard: Investors did have a long memory about 2008

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

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

272

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

273

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

274

What defines the Frontier Emerging Markets Opportunity?

275

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

276

Former Dictatorships are Fertile Ground for Today's Investors

277

What are the 'Four Neighbours?'

278

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

279

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

280

Is Good Economic News Still Bad News for Stock Markets?

281

Is This The Most Uncomfortable Bull Market in History?

282

Is Warren Buffett the Pied Piper of Indexing?