We’re living through a period of Intensified Disruption: geopolitical conflict, trade tensions, regional issues within Canada and rapid advances in AI. Collectively, these are creating economic uncertainty and growing social and political fragmentation. Government bonds don’t provide the safety and security they once did. Growing your purchasing power via quality equities and hard assets is the true path to safety and security; and seasoned professional guidance helps you behave rationally through volatile periods.

In this webinar we explored the forces shaping today’s financial markets and the inside scoop on how our portfolio managers filter the emotive, short term headlines to create stable and durable portfolios. Topics we discussed includes:

• The Age of Intensified Disruption is causing broad stress and anxiety. This hurts our mental health and clouds our investment outlook. Is this temporary turbulence or a more durable change?
• The economic fault lines that matter: How interest rates, inflation, deficits and energy are shaping the financial landscape.
• AI: productivity revolution, employment disruption, or Doomsday catalyst? We’ll add some balance to the discussion.
• A polarized Canada in a more fragmented world: How politics, trade and regional differences are shaping Canada’s future.
• Separating signal from noise: How our managers identify sectors and companies to own and asset class weightings.
• How IWM helps clients materially benefit from market volatility.