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Weathering future storms: Highlights from Canso’s July 2026 Market Observer
“Investors,” the Canso team writes in their latest market report, “should take a hard look at their portfolios to ensure they have the flexibility and capacity to take advantage of a sell-off fuelled by a wholesale deleveraging.”
Where might trouble in financial markets come from? The Canso analysts can’t be sure, but they highlight a couple flashing yellow lights:
- A new Fed head: Just weeks after the death of Alan Greenspan at age 100, Kevin Warsh was sworn in as the new chair of the world’s most influential central bank. Early signs are that he may replicate Greenspan’s cryptic ways. After the first Fed meeting with Warsh as chair, he “severely curtail[ed] the statement released after the rate-setting meeting, … removed forward guidance that signalled the Fed’s next move to the markets [and] declined to submit his ‘dot plots’ to where he sees interest rates headed this year and next,” noted the newsletter, adding that it’s too early to tell what effect this might have on markets, but they wouldn’t be surprised by more volatility in Treasuries.
- The Canadian housing market: It’s in freefall, and yet “housing remains unaffordable for many new home buyers,” the newsletter says.
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How the Bélisle family office is integrating AI into its processes
Growing up as part of a thriving family business, Claudie Bélisle-Desjardins was exposed to innovation at an early age. At Riobel, a luxury faucet brand founded by her father, Mario Bélisle, she took on responsibilities ranging from gluing parts together to marketing and design.
“It really made me learn about optimization because I was always in a different department,” she says. “We were always asking: ‘How we can improve that situation? How can we improve the market?’” That was before the age of AI. Since the sale of Riobel in 2016, Bélisle-Desjardins has applied the same values to her new projects and to managing the Bélisle family office. The result: extensive development, testing and adoption of AI tools.
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