Greg Dowdall CFP, CIM, CLU

September Is the Stock Market’s Most Brutal Month—Will History Repeat Itself? There’s no single reason September has such a weak track record for stocks—but a few theories keep coming up. Should you worry this year?

U.S. citizens living in Canada face tax risk on investment income Two court decisions have rejected foreign tax credits against the U.S. net investment income tax.

What leaders can learn from Mark Carney's approach to trade negotiations with Trump Mark Carney is facing a challenge familiar to many company leaders: how to deal with a more powerful partner you can't afford to lose.

What retail investors need to know before jumping into Anthropic’s IPO Don’t rush in, there are many business risks for the maker of Claude.

Single-family homes, not condos are ‘prime beneficiary’ of HST rebate Sales of new single-family homes in Toronto region in July reached highest level in five years.

Why Rising Treasury Yields Are Not Yet a Stock Market Crisis Rising Treasury yields are raising debt and stock market concerns, but history suggests higher rates are not yet a market crisis.

America’s Colleges Are Hurtling Toward an Enrollment Cliff The largest number of Americans born in a single year arrived on campus in the autumn of 2025, and now a falloff is looming.

The creator of the 4% rule for retirement details the optimal setup for your investment portfolio The 4% rule for retirees is easy enough to understand in theory: withdraw that much of your portfolio per year, and your money should last you through retirement. But what does that look like in practice?

Seven Trillion Dollars Is Sitting in Cash and Most of It Shouldn't Be The era of high, "free" cash yields is ending as the Fed cuts rates and the Treasury curve normalizes, making longer-term bonds more attractive.

There’s Inflation, And Then There’s Whatever A 1,100% Increase Is DeepSeek's up-to-1,100% API price hike signals the end of subsidized AI. Like Uber's cheap-ride era, the free-sample phase is closing, and lock-in is the real risk.