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Long-term investors need to have a strategy they can stick with no matter what happens, a strategy that keeps them on an even keel. Investing is hard and determining your risk tolerance is far from an exact science. There are a lot of people these days who seem to want the market ...

The Russian war in Ukraine has had a massive impact on the European energy market, a result of which is runaway inflation across the continent. Nigeria’s substantial resource wealth and geographic proximity to Europe make it a very attractive partner for meeting the continent&#...

Elevated inflation, slowing global economic growth expectations, and reduced central bank liquidity remain the key economic considerations. The policy interest rate divergence between the U.S. and Europe is likely to increase amid heightened recession risk in Europe. We expect mar...

Two economic reports from last week, attempting to measure essentially the same thing, reported results that were so different they could be about two different countries. The rising rate, rising dollar environment is intact. The 10 year Treasury rate is in a short-term downtrend but ...

The investment landscape has been much more difficult for most sustainable portfolios since the fourth quarter of last year. One thing that we know is that the sustainability challenges that these stocks are connected to haven’t gone away. If anything, the economic challeng...

It’s hard to believe that even after dramatically outperforming the broad stock market for almost two years now, energy stocks still trade at a massive discount. In that context, however, it’s not hard to understand why executives in the sector have been, and still remai...

Since the beginning of Russia’s planned Nord Stream 1 maintenance period (from July 11 to 22), European gas storage stock change has dropped below historical averages. Today, Europe is adding significantly less gas to its storage than it has at this time over the past five year...

Despite being dragged down with most other asset classes in June’s selloff, resource equities have continued to exhibit remarkable resilience relative to broad equities, bonds and other real assets over the last year. Many resource companies - particularly in oil and gas explor...

Two opposing forces appear to be dominating the market currently, with investors polarized between recession fears and bargain hunting following this year’s large equity selloff. Investors priced in most central bank tightening and seem more confident with the inflation outlook...

We think the oil/energy price spike from Putin’s war may be plateauing. When oil prices rise, the bonds that are issued by these energy companies get a windfall since their revenue coverage is higher and therefore the coverage of the bonds improves. We are underweight the f...