2018 Quarterly Review

Fourth Quarter Review

Canadian investors are weary and wary of domestic equities as they stayed cold. They fell short in 2017 and in 2018 we saw the TSX drop 11.64%.

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Third Quarter Review

It's not an Emmy.....it's not a Grammy......it's the Top 5 Wealth Builder Team of the Year Award and it was awarded to us, IPC Watermark Financial Group, at our Annual Conference just this September in beautiful Whistler, B.C. This award is presented to the top 5 teams who have been identified as investing in their business, spending time nurturing their prospects and clients and, of course, the office's financial growth and success. We wanted to share this with you, our clients, who make this possible.

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Second Quarter Review

As we enter the second half of 2018 strong economic fundamentals are being confronted by geopolitical turmoil. The result is that markets have been trying to run up an icy slope. In North America, corporate earnings have been stellar, interest rates have been rising in an orderly fashion, and we are close to or at full employment. On the other side of the ledger, trade spats, isolationist policies, and aggressive political rhetoric have stoked anxieties. As a result, it is understandable that investors are left with a perception that is probably worse than reality.

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