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After being pressured during the first three quarters of the year, stocks moved higher during the fourth quarter, marking their first quarterly gain in 2022. However, for the year, stocks posted their worst performance since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), as investors responded negatively to the ...

Watch this brief webinar hosted by MAP’s President and Chief Investment Officer, Michael Dzialo, and International Portfolio Manager, Peter Swan, as we discuss the rise of the U.S. dollar.

In energy and commodities, there’s stuff that’s always at least 10 years away. Fusion energy is one; asteroid mining is another. And so is peak oil demand. The problem is that a decade goes by, the prediction doesn’t come true, the goalposts are moved further out, and everyone forgets about the old ...

MAP U.S. Multi-Cap Value Strategy

“Our strong long-term performance speaks to our team's ability to navigate through global economic triumph and turbulence during full market cycles. This is driven by our process, deep intellectual capital and a portfolio management team who has been together ...

In October, the U.S. national debt reached $31 trillion, and the government is projected to wade another trillion dollars into the red in the 2023 fiscal year. The longer-term picture is even gloomier, with the deficit expected to double to $2 trillion by 2030.

• Stark Realities: "America's Insolve...

The average American household is spending $433 more a month to buy the same goods and services it did a year ago, according to a Moody’s Analytics analysis of October inflation data. While down slightly from than the $445 monthly figure in September, stubbornly high inflation is stretching the typi...

Tax-Loss Harvesting

Investors may be hard-pressed to find positive-performing investments in their portfolios in 2022, a year that has seen the worst equity performance since the Global Financial Crisis, and the most severe bond market decline in almost half a century. While no one enjoys seeing ne...

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing, according to the sports cliché. But now, just beating expectations seems to be enough to declare victory.

• Market Watch: "Inflation Isn’t Going Anywhere. History Says It Could Take A Decade To Get Back To Normal"
• CNBC: "With U.S. Economy At Risk, Her...

In the most densely populated corner of the US, temperatures are about to drop after a stretch of unusually warm weather. And the signs of a winter crisis are already multiplying.

Heating oil delivered to New York is the priciest ever. Retailers in Connecticut are rationing it to prevent panic buyi...

How low can the market go?

That’s a question that has been pushed to the sidelines in recent days as stocks bounced from their latest bear-market low on hopes that the Federal Reserve might yet “pivot” to smaller interest rate increases, despite the central bank’s insistence it will remain aggressi...

Global economic activity is experiencing a broad-based and sharper-than-expected slowdown, with inflation higher than seen in several decades. The cost-of-living crisis, tightening financial conditions in most regions, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic all weigh heavi...

All of our lifestyles are about to change in a major way, but the vast majority of the population still does not understand what is coming. Throughout our entire lives, we have always been able to depend on a couple of things. There would always be cheap gasoline to fuel our vehicles and there would...