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In the Canadian financial landscape, the scene is dotted with professionals bearing titles like investment management, estate planning, tax advice,…

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Our financial savings are one of our most prized possessions. It represents all of the years of hard work we put in and our commitment to a secure financial future. It’s how we maintain our desired lifestyle and the means to which we can take care of ourselves and our families.

It may or may not surprise you to know that 20% of all US dollars in existence, all time, were printed last year. Amidst a global pandemic, monetary and fiscal policymakers worldwide were hitting the gas pedal. With that, one worry has crept back into our vocabulary lately after years of being a tailwind – inflation.

Trust, transparency and financial expertise are just a few important qualities an investor should look for when searching for the right individual to manage their wealth. In today’s marketplace, there is a significant difference among financial professionals that many investors are not aware of. There are those who have a fiduciary responsibility and those who do not.

In reviewing our newspaper collection of the past year, we wanted to share a few front-page headlines that have stood out to us. These pages illustrate a story of the global stock market in 2020: beginning, middle, and end.

Given what last year brought to investors, we thought it would be worthwhile to highlight the note that we sent out to clients at the depths of the financial panic last March. Although it did not feel good at the time, we knew that the market environment in March was presenting us a great opportunity.

Over the course of 2020, the global economy has been forced to move through the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Combined with fears of a contested U.S. presidential election, social justice unrest worldwide and a new work-from-home environment, investor behaviour and the economy at large has been impacted in more ways than one.

We have been getting lots of questions about how our investments are faring in the face of this historic market decline. We have attempted to lay out our comments in a question and answer format.