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Insight is Capital™ Podcast — 257 episodes

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1

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

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Dave Nadig: The ETF Bubble Nobody is Talking About

3

Humble Process, Extraordinary Results—The Brian Belski Way

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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

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

7

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

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

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

10

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

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How CRM3 Turns Transparency into Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

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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

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

24

Why Millions of Canadians Never Make it to Financial Advice

25

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

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

27

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

29

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

Why EQ beats IQ in Wealth Management with Shana Sissel

36

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

37

Private Investments Come of Age - Opportunity and Balance Unlocked

38

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

42

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

45

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

47

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

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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

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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

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The ETF Industry's Hidden Risks with Dave Nadig

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Paisley Nardini: Outlook—Time for Tail Risk Protection?

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Som Seif: Debunking Private Markets - Opportunities and Myths

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Private Markets: Opportunities and Risks in a Transitional Financial Landscape

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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

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Rethinking Wealth: Unlocking the Power of Private Markets

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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

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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?

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

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

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Todd Finkle: A Fresh Take on Warren Buffett

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Macro Outlook and Defensive Investing Strategies with Bob Elliott

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Justin Huhn: The Generational Bull Case for Uranium

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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

83

Som Seif Investment Review and Outlook - Positioning for Unclear Markets

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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

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

87

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

88

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

89

Brooke Thackray: Seasonal Rotation – Time to rotate?

90

WisdomTree: Navigating These Unusual Market and Economic Signals

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

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

93

Toby Carlisle - Value Investing is Simple, Not Easy

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Aubrey Basdeo: More Coupon, Less Duration

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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"

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Vanguard's Mario Cianfarani: Three Challenges for 2024

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Fidelity's Ilan Kolet – 11 Questions for 2024

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John De Goey - Investing ahead of unknown market risks

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Fidelity's Ilan Kolet: 2024 Macro and Investment Outlook

101

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

102

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

103

Michael Robbins: Ever seen a bad backtest?

104

Investment Insights from WisdomTree's Jeremy Schwartz & Jeff Weniger

105

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

106

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

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

108

Doomberg: Separating Fact from Fiction

109

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

110

Risk Mitigating Strategies Framework - Jason Josephiac & Ryan Lobdell

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

112

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

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Private Assets & The High Net Worth Attraction

114

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

115

Paul Kornfeld: What Are The Charts Saying About Markets?

116

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

117

Mark Noble: Yield Producing Asset Strategies – Why Now?

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Return Stacking: Strategy for A Low Return Environment

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

120

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

121

ChatGPT, AI, Systemic Risk & The Case for Dividends

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Aubrey Basdeo: Bank Breakages, Inflation & Fixed Income Strategy

123

John De Goey – Complacency, Optimism Bias & Investment Risk

124

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

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The Importance of Attracting and Engaging Millennial Clients with Justin Castelli

126

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

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

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

129

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

130

Richard Heft: How to add gravity to your client communications

131

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?

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

134

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

135

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?

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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

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Key Investment Themes in Tumultuous '22

146

Does Seasonal Rotation Work?

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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

174

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'

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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

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

203

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

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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

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

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Ep. 50 Hans Albrecht and Nicolas Piquard, Horizons ETFs

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

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Ep. 48 Adam Butler, Resolve Asset Management

211

Ep. 47 Brooke Thackray: What is Seasonal Investing?

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Ep. 46 Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo, Resolve AM

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

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

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

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

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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?

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David Picton: Is the 60/40 Portfolio Dead?

220

Daniel Straus: Canadians Lead the World in ETF Innovation

221

Time to get comfortable being uncomfortable

222

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

223

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

224

Goshka Folda: What will make you the irreplaceable advisor?

225

Jason Del Vicario: The Journey to Discretionary Portfolio Manager

226

Greg Taylor: Outlook for Cannabis, Energy, and Banking

227

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

228

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

229

Dan Kelley: The Opportunity in Founder-Led Companies

230

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

231

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

232

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

233

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

234

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

235

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

236

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

237

Stephen Lingard: Where are the opportunities?

238

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

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

240

Stephen Lingard: Undoing 'The Giant Monetary Experiment'

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

242

Stephen Lingard: Investors did have a long memory about 2008

243

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

244

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

245

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

246

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

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

248

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

249

What defines the Frontier Emerging Markets Opportunity?

250

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

251

Former Dictatorships are Fertile Ground for Today's Investors

252

What are the 'Four Neighbours?'

253

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

254

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

255

Is Good Economic News Still Bad News for Stock Markets?

256

Is This The Most Uncomfortable Bull Market in History?

257

Is Warren Buffett the Pied Piper of Indexing?