David Robertson

Dec 6, 2024 | mcnallyrobinson.com | David Robertson |Julie Flett

Black Water Trade paperback $21.00 Reader Reward Price: $18.90 A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter "An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family, identity and love." --Cherie Dimaline In this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes...

Oct 8, 2024 | advisorperspectives.com | David Robertson

Stocks posted another good quarter with the S&P 500 up 5.89% (total return). Bonds also posted a strong total return with the TLT bond ETF up 7.93% in the quarter. It was enough to make investors feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Clearly, the Fed was a key component to the mood music. Anticipation of a rate cut, and then final implementation of the cut, drove positive sentiment through the quarter. With that big policy threshold crossed, the question now is how does the story end?

Sep 11, 2024 | pgbuzz.net | David Robertson |Tracey Bearton

Sustainability has played a huge part in the greeting card industry over the past few years as publishers, retailers and suppliers alike accepted the challenge to lead from the front. As a precursor to the upcoming sustainability feature in the October issue of Progressive Greetings magazine and the upcoming Products Of Change Sustainability Conference, PG Buzz has been asking what various companies think have been the best changes in recent times, and what the industry should be looking at now.

Jul 31, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | David Robertson

Just as the notion of “harm” is being used to limit freedom of speech, so the notion of health and safety (and its expansion beyond the physical to the psycho-social) will be used to limit the freedom of the Church to govern itself. We must not wait until it is too late. Now is the time to declare that we stand under the Bible, and that the State too stands under the judgement of God’s word. In 1596 one of the most famous scenes in Presbyterian history took place.

Jul 18, 2024 | advisorperspectives.com | David Robertson

Stocks continued to run in the second quarter with the S&P 500 posting a total return of 4.28% for the second quarter and 15.29% for the first half. After a bit of weakness early in the quarter, it took only a few weeks for stocks to resume their winning ways. Once again, big tech, artificial intelligence, and momentum were leading themes. Another leading theme was the Fed "put", the practice of monetary authorities easing financial conditions when markets become turbulent, or even just stagnant.