Insights

The investment thesis for agriculture was put to the test in 2020 as the COVID-19 crisis unfolded. There were both positive and negative economic factors arising from the pandemic and its impact on the economy, however, on balance, the agricultural markets and economies emerged relatively unscathed.

Unprecedented. Extraordinary. Uncertain.

We review the implications of today’s ultra-low yield environment and the changing opportunity set in private markets.

Fiera Capital’s portfolio managers have been diligently monitoring the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and its ongoing impact on global financial markets.

This wasn’t the case two hundred years ago, when candlefueled light cost over 325 times more than today’s light does. Light is so essential to our lives that its source has undergone radical innovations – and reinventions – that have improved it radically over the last century and a half.