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The exit window is open

Mon Feb 10 11:00:00 GMT 2025 | Bruce Gelfand

Closely-held business owners should be thinking about this now, even if they are not ready to exit. Planning is crucial to get maximum value at the right moment when the window is open. And that planning has to take place across multiple fronts...

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A hiker standing at the top of a mountain with one leg up on a rock, gazing out onto a landscape of hazy mountains and a golden sky

The exit window is open

Mon Feb 10 11:00:00 GMT 2025 | Bruce Gelfand

Closely-held business owners should be thinking about this now, even if they are not ready to exit. Planning is crucial to get maximum value at the right moment when the window is open. And that planning has to take place across multiple fronts...

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Retirement plans: Creating a sponsor friendly, appreciated benefit

Mon Oct 28 12:00:00 GMT 2024 | Bruce Gelfand

With retirement plans, you want to ensure your plan is targeting the most important groups, including yourself.

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A hiker standing at the top of a mountain with one leg up on a rock, gazing out onto a landscape of hazy mountains and a golden sky

Retirement plans: Creating a sponsor friendly, appreciated benefit

Mon Oct 28 12:00:00 GMT 2024 | Bruce Gelfand

With retirement plans, you want to ensure your plan is targeting the most important groups, including yourself.

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Analysis (10)

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Global Insight 2025 Outlook: Asia Pacific

Dec 02, 2024 |Jasmine Duan, Nicholas Gwee, CFA, Kennard Ling & Shawn Sim

Asia’s equity outlook will likely depend on U.S. tariffs, China’s stimulus and Japan’s structural changes. Stable fundamentals support cautious optimism for investment-grade bonds.

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Global Insight 2025 Outlook: Canada

Dec 02, 2024 |Sunny Singh, CFA, and Josh Nye

Despite potential headwinds, we are generally constructive on Canadian markets, though we expect less outperformance in credit.

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Market overview: Equity balancing act

Dec 02, 2024 |Jim Allworth

In 2025, global equity markets may be able to add to the remarkable gains of the past two years. That will require economic and earnings pictures that don’t falter.

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The “Unstoppables”

Dec 02, 2024 |Frédérique Carrier and Jim Allworth

Four powerful trends involving game-changing innovations and demographic changes are set to play out in the global economy over the coming decades. We believe they can provide an attractive way to plug investment portfolios into the future.

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The White House

Pondering a U.S. policy potpourri

Nov 22, 2024 |Atul Bhatia, CFA

How can investors separate the policy changes that are likely to really matter for the economy from those that get a lot of press but may not have the most traction?

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Fed rate cuts for what?

Nov 14, 2024 |Thomas Garretson, CFA

The Fed has cut policy rates by 75 basis points since September only to see longer-term Treasury yields and mortgage rates increase by the same degree. We take a closer look at this divergence and its implications.

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Washington, D.C.

U.S. presidential election: Back to the future

Nov 07, 2024 |Kelly Bogdanova

In a historic political comeback, Donald Trump has again won the presidency. We look at the policies like taxes and tariffs shaping the investment climate. With political polarization high, don’t let emotions cloud your investment decisions.

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The end of China’s challenging chapter?

Oct 31, 2024 |Frédérique Carrier

China’s economy is struggling. A coordinated stimulus to curb the crippling housing crisis and support local governments is being announced. We explore the measures undertaken and contemplated and their potential implications for portfolios.

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The price of Fed rate cut success is steep, but not too steep

Oct 03, 2024 |Thomas Garretson, CFA

The Fed has finally aggressively lowered interest rates. While a steeper yield curve reflects the market’s optimism that rate cuts will shore up the economic outlook, further steepness could be a sign the Fed will cut rates deeply, likely due to a re

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Global equity: Offense still on the field; defense ready for the call

Aug 09, 2024 |Jim Allworth

The market pullback will take time to play out. Planning for an eventual shift to defense beats a “hope for the best” approach.

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