Choosing the Right Covered Call Strategy

Choosing the Right Covered Call Strategy

Covered call funds have become popular in recent years as investors look for higher yielding investment strategies to add to their portfolios. A covered call option strategy involves investing in a portfolio of stocks and then selling call options on the same stocks...
Safety in Tech?

Safety in Tech?

The tech sector (S&P 500 Info Tech Index) has outperformed the broader market and all other sectors yearto-date, with a 21.5% total return vs 7.0% for the S&P 500 Index, despite macro headwinds and volatility in the bond market due to recent bank failures....
Canadian Banks – Stability in Good Times, Bad Times

Canadian Banks – Stability in Good Times, Bad Times

The global banking industry has once again been thrown into turmoil with the recent regional bank failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Capital, and Signature Bank in the U.S., as well as the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS Group at the behest of regulators in...
Europe – The Worst May Be Behind Us

Europe – The Worst May Be Behind Us

European equity markets have strongly outperformed the U.S. over the past three months in both U.S. dollar and local currency terms. The magnitude of the recent outperformance is unprecedented in the last 15 years, with the Euro STOXX 50 versus S&P 500 materially...
Investment Solutions for Market Uncertainty

Investment Solutions for Market Uncertainty

2022 was one of the worst years on record for investment performance, with significant drawdowns for both equity and fixed income investors. The combined impacts of the Russia/Ukraine military conflict in Europe; continuation of Covid lock-down restrictions in China,...