Portfolio insights

Learn how guaranteed investment funds (GIFs) can help your business

Your corporate clients may not know Sun Life Guaranteed Investment Funds (GIFs) contracts owned at the corporate level offer several attractive benefits for business owners. GIFs are also known as segregated fund contracts.

Three reasons to own bonds

In this video, Christine Tan, Portfolio Manager at SLGI Asset Management Inc. makes the case why bonds are an attractive alternative to owning stocks and why they should be part of a well-balanced portfolio.

Recession investing tips

Christine Tan, Portfolio Manager at SLGI Asset Management Inc. discusses how recessions are a normal part of the economic cycle, and how they may actually offer opportunities to pick up quality companies at bargain prices for investors while also reducing portfolio risk.

Will stocks & bonds move again in opposite directions to strengthen balanced portfolios?

Our latest insight looks at when stocks and bonds correlate negatively and positively, why they move the way they do, and what that could mean for market watchers. 

Is it offence or defence that wins?

Whether you’re talking about sports or investing, it’s a lively debate.

Nothing Unusual About Bear Market Rallies

MFS Investment Management is the sub-advisor to the Sun Life MFS mutual funds

In a recently published article ‘Looking Ahead to 2023: End and Beginning of an Earnings Cycle’ that was first published in the United States by MFS Investment Management, Robert M. Almeida Jr., Portfolio Manager and Global Investment Strategist, discusses his outlook on inflation, recession risks and earnings expectations for the rest of 2023. Here’s a summary of our takeaways.

What’s next for rates, recession & the banking sector

Chhad Aul, Chief Investment Officer and Head of the Multi-Asset Solutions, SLGI Asset Management Inc., discusses how you can position your portfolios as the effects of rising interest rates continue to hit the real economy.

Q1 2023 Granite Portfolio Update

Find out how Chhad Aul, Chief Investment Officer and Head of the Multi-Asset Solutions, SLGI Asset Management Inc., and his team positioned the Granite funds against a volatile market backdrop in Q1 2023.

Why Canadian banks are largely immune to a bank run

Strong regulation, supervision and a conservative risk culture characterize Canada’s concentrated banking industry. This has reinforced the message that Canadian banks are safe following recent bank runs in the U.S. 

Q1 2023 | Market Update

Markets rollercoaster through a volatile first quarter after interest rates expectations fluctuate.