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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...

The energy market is a tug-of-war between fundamentals in the energy industry which is pretty tight. The energy sector has been driving a lot of performance in the S&P/TSX Index since the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. In the short term, I do expect the integrated compan...

Despite the biggest decline ever in the SPR, total US oil inventories (outside of the government’s emergency SPR) have barely budged off their lows. When we look at the 10-year seasonal pattern for total US oil inventories, we are well below the 10-year extreme low and, seasona...

After spending a few days in Israel to reassert America's presence in the Middle East, President Biden on Friday will become the first U.S. leader to fly directly from Tel Aviv to Saudi Arabia. On the itinerary are somewhat of a resetting of relations, including energy security, Israeli...

In its most simple terms, inflation is rising prices due to aggregate demand outstripping supply. Despite disagreements on the current causes of inflation, the Federal Reserve has made it clear that their goal is to reduce the demand imbalance through short-end rate hikes and quantita...