Canada exported hydrocarbons to 112 countries in 2025. Sounds pretty diversified. Except 90.8% of the volume still went to the United States. 😂 That’s not because nobody else wants Canadian energy. It’s partly because decades of infrastructure were built around serving...

Over 60% of the average American investor's portfolio sits in US stocks — usually not because they analyzed it, but because it's familiar. This is Part 1 of the Global Investing series: what home country bias is costing...

Think you’re diversified? Rupert Mitchell argues that today’s major stock indexes may be far more concentrated than investors realize — with AI, semiconductors and mega-cap tech driving an outsized share of market exposure. His warning: even a “global” portfolio...

In this short video, we explain why diversification can weaken during a crisis. A portfolio may look diversified in normal markets because different assets react to different information. But during market stress, many risky assets can start reacting to...

#aistocks #investing #portfoliomanagement AI may be one of the biggest investing opportunities of this generation. But there's one mistake that can seriously damage a portfolio. Going all-in. Many investors become so excited about a popular trend that they forget the...

Are investors really diversified — or has the AI boom turned major stock indexes into one enormous concentrated bet? Rupert Mitchell, author of The Blind Squirrel, joins Maggie Lake to explain why he believes traditional index investing may now...

Central banks are buying gold at a record pace, so why won’t they touch Bitcoin? Willem Middelkoop, founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and author of The Big Reset, explains that central banks want assets they can control....

Canada has spent much of the past year talking about becoming less economically dependent on the United States. But what if we’ve been thinking about the problem the wrong way? Over this series, Beyond the US: Building an Independent Canada,...

What happens if the stock market goes nowhere for an entire decade? Between 2000 and 2009 (often called the “Lost Decade”) the S&P 500 index experienced two major bear markets, resulting in a flat to negative total return. In this...

Market declines are a normal part of investing, but understanding how a significant market drop could impact your portfolio is key to long-term financial planning. In this episode of Financial Planning Fridays, Jerry Davidse, CFP®, explains how Presilium’s...