Deep dive: Inflation | EP99
Inflation cycles throughout history, Keynes vs. monetarists, and why the enemy is…still us.
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Rising Debt and its Potential Consequences: Canada’s New Normal?
We need to understand where we are in the debt super cycle to inform our investment decision making.
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Artificial Intelligence: The Return of The Centaurs
Recent AI breakthroughs are underscoring the power of the centaur model—humans + machines—creating something more potent than either model operating independently.
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The Case for Non-Predictive Decision Making
In our view, market participants systematically underestimate the importance of vulnerabilities while correspondingly overestimating the importance of triggers. Why?
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Inflation’s One-Two Punch
It’s inflation’s second punch that can deliver a blow that investors may not be expecting.
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‘Twas the week before Christmas
'Twas the week before Christmas, thus time to review—the economic story of 2022.
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Beware the linearity bias
We tend to think of our world in linear terms, where the output of a system is proportional and directly correlated to its inputs.
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The quality conundrum
The conundrum for investors these days is the trade-off between the value of quality and price to pay for it.
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Be aware, but don’t despair!
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
~Mark Twain
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'Twas the week before Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas, so let's have some fun. Mawer recaps the main themes of 2021.
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Prepare don't predict
How an engineering principle can improve investment risk management.
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On modern monetary theory
We explore the evolution of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the notable economic ideas on which it is based. We highlight some notable criticisms and discuss implications of MMT for economic policy and financial markets. Our purpose is less focused on opining whether MMT is fundamentally sound, but rather aimed at understanding its development and how the ground may shift if indeed MMT-based policies are more widely embraced.
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Where I’m seeing value in emerging markets
I’ve been revisiting Philip Fisher’s Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits recently. Scanning the opportunity set in emerging markets, I’ve been trying to imagine what Fisher would have made of the current investment landscape.
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'Twas the week before Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas, (and you know it’s true), COVID looms large in our annual review.
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Rising Debt and its Potential Consequences: Canada’s New Normal?
We need to understand where we are in the debt super cycle to inform our investment decision making.
May 31, 2023
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Artificial Intelligence: The Return of The Centaurs
Recent AI breakthroughs are underscoring the power of the centaur model—humans + machines—creating something more potent than either model operating independently.
May 3, 2023
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The Case for Non-Predictive Decision Making
In our view, market participants systematically underestimate the importance of vulnerabilities while correspondingly overestimating the importance of triggers. Why?
April 5, 2023
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Inflation’s One-Two Punch
It’s inflation’s second punch that can deliver a blow that investors may not be expecting.
January 4, 2023
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‘Twas the week before Christmas
'Twas the week before Christmas, thus time to review—the economic story of 2022.
December 21, 2022
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Beware the linearity bias
We tend to think of our world in linear terms, where the output of a system is proportional and directly correlated to its inputs.
November 2, 2022
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The quality conundrum
The conundrum for investors these days is the trade-off between the value of quality and price to pay for it.
March 29, 2022
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January 10, 2022
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'Twas the week before Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas, so let's have some fun. Mawer recaps the main themes of 2021.
December 17, 2021
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Prepare don't predict
How an engineering principle can improve investment risk management.
November 3, 2021
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On modern monetary theory
We explore the evolution of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the notable economic ideas on which it is based. We highlight some notable criticisms and discuss implications of MMT for economic policy and financial markets. Our purpose is less focused on opining whether MMT is fundamentally sound, but rather aimed at understanding its development and how the ground may shift if indeed MMT-based policies are more widely embraced.
June 30, 2021
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Where I’m seeing value in emerging markets
I’ve been revisiting Philip Fisher’s Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits recently. Scanning the opportunity set in emerging markets, I’ve been trying to imagine what Fisher would have made of the current investment landscape.
May 26, 2021
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'Twas the week before Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas, (and you know it’s true), COVID looms large in our annual review.
December 18, 2020
