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View InsightsThe Quarterly Focus – Q1 2024
The following is an excerpt from the quarterly newsletter distributed to clients. Q1 2024 – Return of Hype Market mood rose in the first quarter of 2024. Between benign inflation and resilient economic performance in advanced market economies, investor optimism broadly improved. Central banks tried to temper the most aggressive of expectations, arguing the battle […]
An Evening with Margaret MacMillan
Our succinct perspective on key investment and wealth-related issues. Looking to History to Understand the World Today Ted Conrod, President at Focus, recently hosted an exciting evening with one of Canada’s preeminent historians and an acclaimed author, Margaret MacMillan. Unquestionably, with conflicts raging in Europe and the Middle East and 70 nations (representing over half the […]
The Quarterly Focus – Q4 2023
The following is an excerpt from the quarterly newsletter distributed to clients. 2023: I beg your pardon, I never promised you a recession 2023 was another wild and unprecedented year in the investment world. To paraphrase Voltaire, we have seen so many extraordinary things in the past ten years that nothing seems extraordinary anymore. Although […]