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June 16, 2026Episode 26444 min

The ETF Terrordome: Why 1 in 3 New Funds Will Never Survive

If you think launching an ETF sounds like a great business, Eric Balchunas is here to explain why it might be the most brutal competitive arena in finance — and which products are actually winning in 2026.Pierre Daillie sits down with Eric Balchunas — Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, co-host of the Trillions podcast, and author of The Bogle Effect — for an unflinching tour of the ETF Terrordome. Eric maps the structural forces that make ETF success so elusive: Vanguard and BlackRock together capturing 60% of all flows, over 2,000 funds trapped below the $50M zombie line, and a liquidation rate that could hit one-in-three. He unpacks his three C's of ETF survival (Cheap, Creative, or Cabernet), breaks down why legacy active managers finally found their footing by lowering fees, and explains the DRAM phenomenon — a memory chip ETF that reached $15 billion in 60 days by solving a real access problem. The conversation moves into Eric's 26 for '26 ETFs to Watch list, covering uranium mining, auto callable ETFs, laddered buffer strategies, and the growing derivative income space. Balchunas also shares his thesis on why the "Vanguard bid" and government backstops have fundamentally changed how markets absorb sell-offs — and why Bogle may be the most underrated behavioral economist in investing history.⏱ Chapters00:00 — Introduction: Welcome to the Terrordome 03:30 — What the Terrordome actually means: fees, distribution, and the Vanguard effect 06:30 — BlackRock vs. Vanguard: the fee war that reshaped an industry 08:00 — The three C's of ETF success: Cheap, Creative, or Cabernet 10:00 — The $100M threshold: zombies, middle class, and breakout hits 13:00 — Active managers finally get it right (Capital Group, JP Morgan, DFA, Avantis) 15:00 — DRAM: the $15B ETF that came out of nowhere 17:00 — BlackRock & Vanguard as the new IBM for advisors 21:00 — Why advisors choose index over active: the blame problem 25:00 — 26 for '26: Eric's ETF Watch List highlights (URNM, CAIE, buffer ETFs) 28:00 — Auto callables, covered calls, and the derivative income boom 31:00 — Mag Seven concentration: Bessembinder, antitrust, and the hoovering of small caps 36:00 — Managed futures, portable alpha, and return stacking 39:00 — The Vanguard bid: why sell-offs don't cascade anymore 41:00 — The Bogle Effect: Jack Bogle as the father of good investor behavior 43:00 — Where to find Eric: Trillions podcast, ETF IQ on Bloomberg TV, X & LinkedIn #ETF #ETFs2026 #EricBalchunas #BloombergIntelligence #ETFInvesting #PassiveInvesting #ActiveETF #Vanguard #BlackRock #IndexFunds #ETFIndustry #Terrordome #TheBogleEffect #CoveredCallETF #BufferETF #AutoCallable #ManagedFutures #PortableAlpha #UraniumETF #DRAM #Trillions #InsightIsCapital #WealthManagement #AdvisorInvesting #InvestmentStrategy #FinancePodcast

June 12, 2026Episode 2631 hr 3 min

Justin Huhn: Uranium is the Missing Layer Beneath the AI Trade

Most portfolios already own the AI trade — but almost none own the energy underneath it, and that's exactly where the next big opportunity lives.In this episode of Raise Your Average, hosts Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick sit down with Justin Huhn, Founder, Lead Analyst and Editor of Uranium Insider, to unpack why uranium is the missing layer beneath the AI trade — and why the structural supply-demand imbalance in the nuclear fuel cycle may be one of the most consequential and overlooked investment opportunities of the decade.Justin traces uranium's journey from a forgotten commodity trading near $18/lb in 2017 to today's spot price of $85 — and explains why the bull case is more durable now than ever. The convergence of AI data center power demand, Western electricity grid strain, reactor life extensions, hyperscaler nuclear power agreements, and a deeply undersupplied fuel cycle has created a structural setup that, in Justin's view, doesn't require the AI tailwind to deliver significantly higher uranium prices. That tailwind is, as he puts it, "a bonus."The conversation covers the full uranium fuel cycle — from mine to reactor — including why supply simply cannot respond as quickly as demand, why utilities are systematically late to contract, how hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google and Amazon entering the nuclear fuel market is a landmark signal, and how advisors can think about positioning uranium as an infrastructure-adjacent hedge on the AI power squeeze.⏱ Chapters00:00 — Introduction: AI, energy crisis, and the nuclear renaissance 04:04 — Why nuclear is the only power source AI infrastructure actually needs 09:07 — Justin Huhn: from $18/lb uranium to the global nuclear renaissance 13:50 — Safety, carbon, and why the anti-nuclear narrative finally broke 16:16 — Western electricity demand awakens: AI and electrification converge 21:32 — U.S. grid stress: data centers testing the limits of existing infrastructure 23:40 — Every U.S. reactor getting life extended; hyperscalers entering the fuel cycle 26:39 — What Microsoft, Google and Amazon signing nuclear deals actually signals 28:49 — Supply vs. demand: why uranium can't be turned on like an oil well 34:44 — Why uranium price is almost irrelevant to reactor restart decisions 39:17 — How utilities contract uranium: long-term deals, herd behaviour and missed timing 44:57 — Why utilities have been "utterly wrong" about price trajectory — and why that matters 50:35 — How Uranium Insider models supply and demand out to 2040 52:40 — The dynamic trading model: doubling money while outperforming ETFs by 50–60% 53:10 — Reading the physical market, sentiment signals, and RSI for trade timing 57:54 — Uranium as an advisor portfolio play: the AI-adjacent energy infrastructure trade 59:07 — SMR demand, OPG Darlington, and what the next leg of the cycle looks like #Uranium #NuclearEnergy #AIInfrastructure #EnergyInvesting #UraniumInsider #NuclearRenaissance #DataCenterPower #SmallModularReactors #UraniumBullMarket #RaiseYourAverage #CriticalMinerals #EnergyTransition #NuclearStocks #UraniumMining #PowerGrid #AIDataCenters #AlternativeEnergy #PortfolioConstruction #InvestmentStrategy #FinancePodcast

June 9, 2026Episode 26256 min

She Watches Billions in ETF Flows Every Day. What's Going On Behind the Screens?

The desk at RBC Capital Markets that sits behind 90% of Canada's ETF market has a view of where flows are really going — and it's not what most advisors expect.Pierre Daillie sits down with Valerie Grimba, Head of Global ETF Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, for a wide-ranging conversation about the forces quietly reshaping how Canadian advisors build portfolios. Valerie's team serves as designated broker to roughly 300 ETF mandates and acts as authorized participant across the majority of the Canadian ETF market — giving her a real-time, flow-level view of investor behaviour that almost nobody else has. From the structural fracture that 2022 opened in the 60/40 model, to the liquidity misconceptions her desk corrects every single day, to the explosive rise of asset allocation ETFs, covered call strategies, AAA CLOs, and precision thematic plays, this conversation covers the full terrain of where the ETF market stands today — and where it is heading.CHAPTERS00:00 — Introduction: The 60/40 failure and Canada's ETF rebuild 02:11 — Valerie's career arc: Bear Stearns, New York, New Zealand, RBC 04:21 — How the RBC ETF market making desk actually works 05:36 — What a designated broker does — and why it matters 08:18 — Flash crashes, Liberation Day, and ETFs as a release valve 10:08 — The RBC market view: yellow flags, narrow breadth, and a 12–18 month outlook 13:29 — How ETF flows changed: from net outflows in risk-off to rotation 14:05 — Gold: zero correlation, the incongruent timing, and the 2026 outlook 15:40 — Higher for longer: what advisors are missing about the rate environment 17:46 — How 2022 changed advisor behaviour and launched a new ETF ecosystem 21:49 — Covered call ETFs: what advisors are still getting wrong 24:19 — Retail vs. institutional: why retail has been outperforming 25:20 — Private assets in an ETF wrapper: the square peg, round hole problem 31:11 — What RBC looks for before taking on a designated broker mandate 32:28 — The Pac-Man of Canadian ETF flows: asset allocation ETFs 36:29 — CAGE, XEQT, FBAL: who is actually buying all-in-one ETFs 38:58 — TLT as widowmaker and the search for yield without duration risk 40:36 — AAA CLOs, active fixed income, and aggregate bond ETFs 43:07 — CTAs, trend following, and the rise of alternatives in Canada 44:30 — Why GIC sectors are becoming antiquated — and what's replacing them 45:48 — DRAM, memory chips, and the new thematic precision playbook 47:11 — Single stock ETFs: access, covered call overlays, and trade-offs 49:07 — The #1 ETF liquidity misconception — and the three layers advisors need to know 53:28 — Best execution practices: limit orders, timing, and when to call the desk #ETF #CanadianETF #ETFInvesting #PortfolioConstruction #CoveredCallETF #AssetAllocation #XEQT #FixedIncome #AlternativeInvestments #WealthManagement #FinancialAdvisor #InvestmentStrategy #ETFLiquidity #RBCCapitalMarkets #MarketOutlook #ThematicETF #PassiveInvesting #ETFTrading #InsightIsCapital #AdvisorAnalyst

June 2, 2026Episode 26154 min

Why Half a Million People Trust PWL Capital CIO, Ben Felix

In this episode of Insight Is Capital, Pierre Daillie sit down with Ben Felix — Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at PWL Capital, co-host of the Rational Reminder podcast, and the driving force behind one of the most-watched evidence-based investing channels on YouTube with over half a million subscribers.Ben unpacks the philosophy and hard-won lessons behind PWL's radical transparency strategy — giving away the "secret sauce" of their entire investment process — and why that counterintuitive bet became the engine of the firm's organic growth. He shares how a Costco parking lot moment sparked his channel concept, why it took him three years to crack a smile on camera, and what the advice industry still consistently gets wrong about content marketing.The conversation turns candid when Ben addresses the alternatives wave sweeping Canadian portfolios — and PWL's longstanding decision to focus on building systematic, rules-based portfolios. He then reframes the advisor value proposition entirely: a real client's story reveals that none of the reasons they hired PWL had anything to do with securities selection or beating the market, and more importantly, a laundry list of high-value living, breathing concerns.The episode closes with Ben's most powerful framework for life and practice — the PERMA-V model of human flourishing — and a striking parallel between the five factor model for investing and the five factors of a well-lived life.⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 – Introduction: Who is Ben Felix and why your clients are already watching him 02:00 – From basketball scholarship and mechanical engineering to CIO: Ben's accidental path into finance 07:30 – How PWL's blogging experiment became a content empire — and the Costco parking lot moment 13:00 – What advisor content gets badly wrong: black boxes, sales pitches, and the trust deficit 17:00 – The hardest part of content creation: consistency, camera nerves, and why most people quit 18:30 – "Investing has been solved": PWL's evidence-based philosophy and the case against stock-picking 20:00 – The alternatives warning: gated private funds, client transfers, and why PWL passed 23:00 – How content became a beacon for like-minded advisors — and PWL's acquisition growth model 28:00 – The self-selecting client: why prospects arrive already sold on the philosophy 30:00 – Who Ben is actually talking to: DIY investors, advisors, and the 10-year referral flywheel 34:00 – Freeing advisors from the securities selection trap: what evidence-based investing unlocks 37:00 – Why a successful DIY investor hired PWL — and none of the reasons were about the portfolio 39:30 – Goal-setting, PERMA-V, and the structured process PWL tested with Morningstar 42:00 – PWL's financial planning app: systematizing the family office model at scale 44:30 – What makes people trust Ben Felix: evidence, sources, and STEM-grade intellectual honesty 49:00 – Where PWL goes from here: acquisitions, fiduciary growth, and a possible book 51:00 – The one thing to change: applying PERMA-V as a filter for how you live and invest 53:00 – Where to find Ben Felix: YouTube, Rational Reminder, The Money Scope#BenFelix #PWLCapital #EvidenceBasedInvesting #IndexInvesting #RationalReminder #FinancialPlanning #AdvisorAlpha #DIYInvesting #FactorInvesting #WealthManagement #InsightIsCapital #PersonalFinanceCanada #ETFInvesting #FinancialAdvisor #FiduciaryAdvisor #InvestingCanada #MoneyScope #PassiveInvesting #BehaviouralFinance #PERMAModel

May 26, 2026Episode 26046 min

Canada's ETF Surge is Structural, not Cyclical | Ronald Landry

Canada's ETF market isn't just growing — it's being structurally rewired, and Ron Landry has a front-row seat to where every dollar is flowing and why.Pierre Daillie sits down with Ronald Landry, Vice President and Head of Segment Solutions and Canadian ETF Services at CIBC Mellon, for a wide-ranging look at the forces driving Canada's historic ETF surge. With nearly $95 billion in net flows through May 2026 — 57% ahead of last year's run rate — Ron unpacks why this isn't a cyclical wave but a structural shift in how Canadians save, invest, and expect to be served. From the rise of income-generating ETFs and single-stock strategies to tokenization, TCR disclosure, and the regulatory cost burden quietly falling on investors, this conversation delivers the institutional vantage point advisors rarely access. Ron and Pierre also tackle what it really takes for a new ETF to survive, why advisor-guided portfolios outperform DIY by 3.6x, and what the next phase of Canadian ETF product formation looks like as active management quietly takes over the flow story.⏱ Chapters[00:00:00] — Introduction: Pierre sets the stage on Canada's surging ETF flows and welcomes Ron Landry of CIBC Mellon [00:02:00] — $95B and counting: Ron breaks down the staggering 2026 YTD flow numbers and what's driving the pace [00:03:30] — Mutual fund managers come knocking: Why traditional fund firms are now asking about ETF series [00:05:00] — Geography of flows: Rotation from US equities into Canadian, emerging markets, and international mandates [00:07:30] — Product formation trends: Single-stock ETFs, covered calls, high-frequency distributions, and the income yield wave [00:09:00] — The 86% rule: Why the top 10 issuers still capture the lion's share of new assets [00:10:00] — All-in-one ETFs: iShares, Vanguard, and BMO dominate the asset allocation category [00:13:00] — Macro disconnect: Why flows keep surging despite inflation, tariffs, and geopolitical risk [00:14:00] — ETF pipeline signals: Crypto and digital assets, tokenization workshops, and what the CSA is watching [00:18:00] — TCR (Total Cost Reporting): What advisors need to know before January 2027 statements land [00:23:00] — The covered call psychology: Instant income, generational behaviour, and the bear market stress test [00:28:00] — The advisor value case: Portfolio growth 3.6x higher with professional guidance — know your product [00:30:00] — ETF survival signals: First-mover advantage, the three-year rule, and when to pull the plug [00:36:00] — Regulatory cost creep: Filing fee increases, the Emerge warning, and how costs ultimately reach investors [00:43:00] — The road ahead: Active ETFs, advisor positioning, and what the next phase of Canadian ETF evolution demands #CanadianETF #ETFInvesting #InsightIsCapital #WealthManagement #FinancialAdvisor #ETFCanada #CoveredCallETF #ActiveETF #InvestmentFunds #CIBCMellon #CanadianInvesting #ETFFlows #TotalCostReporting #PortfolioManagement #FinancialPlanning #DIYInvesting #Incomeinvesting #ETFIndustry #CanadianFinance #AdvisorAlyst

May 22, 2026Episode 2591 hr 18 min

Larry Swedroe: The Adaptive Market & The Undiversified Investor

Larry Swedroe has spent 30 years proving the market will almost always beat you — and in this episode, he explains why that's about to become even more true.In this episode of Raise Your Average, hosts Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick sit down with legendary evidence-based investing author and outsourced CIO Larry Swedroe for a wide-ranging masterclass on where markets are heading and what investors must do to survive them. Swedroe breaks down how AI is accelerating market efficiency rather than unlocking alpha, why the 60/40 portfolio carries far more equity risk than most investors realize, and why true hyper-diversification — across private credit, reinsurance, return stacking, and long-short factor strategies — is the only credible response to a world where correlation assumptions break at exactly the wrong moment. He confronts the behavioral mistakes social media is making worse, challenges advisors to stress-test risk tolerance with real dollar numbers, and argues the future of wealth management belongs to those who master alternatives.⏱ Chapters00:00 — Cold Open: AI and the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis 02:00 — Welcome to Larry Swedroe 03:00 — Post-Retirement Life: Consulting, Writing, and Giving Back 09:00 — AI and Market Efficiency: Does Technology Create or Destroy Alpha? 11:00 — Factor Model History: CAPM, Fama-French, and Shrinking Active Alpha 14:00 — Warren Buffett's Disappearing Alpha 21:00 — The Danger of AI Data Mining and False Correlations 23:00 — What Makes a Factor Worth Owning: Persistent, Pervasive, Robust 28:00 — Leverage Aversion: When a Little Is Good and a Lot Is Dangerous 30:00 — Private Credit and the Case for Senior Secured Loans 31:00 — Return Stacking and Portable Alpha 34:00 — Hyper-Diversification: Why Your 60/40 Is Really 90/10 in Risk Terms 39:00 — The 40-Year Period Growth Stocks Underperformed Long Treasuries 40:00 — Reinsurance and AQR Style Premium: Self-Healing Assets and Impatience 45:00 — The Real Definition of Diversification: Something Is Always Hurting 47:00 — Good Advisors Are People Managers, Not Money Managers 54:00 — Stress-Testing Risk Tolerance with Real Dollar Numbers 56:00 — Monte Carlo and the True Cost of Avoiding Alternatives 59:00 — Trend Following: Clustered Returns and Why You Buy Insurance at a Cost 01:05:00 — Behavioral Mistakes in the Age of Social Media 01:07:00 — Information vs. Value-Relevant Information: Why Reddit Won't Make You Rich 01:11:00 — The Future of Advisory Practice: Wealth Management and the Next Decade #EvidenceBasedInvesting #FactorInvesting #MarketEfficiency #AIInvesting #ReturnStacking #BehavioralFinance #WealthManagement #AlternativeInvestments #PortfolioConstruction #FinancialAdvisor #RaiseYourAverage #LarrySwedroe #RetirementPlanning #ManagedFutures #TrendFollowing #PrivateCredit #Reinsurance #HyperDiversification #InvestmentStrategy #FinancePodcast #IndexInvesting #FactorPremium #ActiveVsPassive #AdvisorAnalyst #MikePhilbrick #PierreDaillie #LongShortStrategy #MonteCarloSimulation #SequenceOfReturnsRisk #PortfolioRisk

May 19, 2026Episode 2581 hr 24 min

Adriano Starinieri - No Filters, No Pitch, No Advisor

He replaced his paycheck with a covered call ETF portfolio, moved to Panama, and put the whole system on display — because transparency, it turns out, is the most powerful financial planning tool nobody in the industry is using.What does it actually look like to live off your portfolio — not someday, but now? Pierre Daillie sits down with Adriano Starinieri, creator of the Passive Income Investing YouTube channel and the voice behind one of Canada's fastest-growing DIY finance communities, to answer that question in full. Adriano walks through his complete origin story: working-class Montreal roots, a father who speculated on penny stocks, a 20-year mortgage paid off in 7 years, and a decision in 2019 to sell the condo, invest the proceeds, and go all-in on covered call ETFs — just months before the COVID crash. Today he and his wife live in Panama, financially independent, drawing monthly income from a seven-figure portfolio he reviews publicly on YouTube every single month.For investors, this episode is a masterclass in income-first portfolio construction. Adriano breaks down exactly how covered call ETFs work, why the 2021 arrival of lightly leveraged versions effectively solved the total return problem, how to evaluate any covered call ETF by asset quality, coverage ratio, and leverage, and why the buy-and-hold-forever mindset eliminates the behavioural mistakes that derail most portfolios. He makes a compelling case that for income-seeking investors, covered call ETFs don't just compete with bonds — they may make the traditional fixed income sleeve obsolete.For advisors, this episode is a window into how the next generation of clients is already thinking — and who they're already listening to. Adriano's 250,000-subscriber community was built on a single, confronting idea: radical transparency. He shows his real portfolio, his real numbers, his real monthly distributions — and his audience trusts him completely because of it. Pierre and Adriano explore what that trust gap reveals about how advisors communicate, why proprietary product recommendations erode client confidence, and what it would look like for an advisory practice to meet younger investors where they actually are: online, sceptical, and hungry for education over salesmanship.Chapters00:00 — Introduction: Who Is Adriano Starinieri? 01:45 — Life in Panama: Why They Left Montreal and Never Looked Back 07:10 — The Decision to Relocate: From a Three-Month Airbnb to Permanent Residency 13:36 — Origin Story: Working-Class Roots, a Father Who Speculated, and Learning What Not to Do 20:41 — Swing Trading Phase: BlackBerry, Bombardier, and the Lessons of Getting It Wrong 22:27 — The Turning Point: Kevin O'Leary, Dividend Stocks, and Discovering Covered Call ETFs 24:51 — The System: Replace Your Paycheck With Passive Income 26:06 — Going All-In Before the COVID Crash — and What the System Proved 29:41 — Covered Call ETFs Explained in Plain Language 34:05 — The 2021 Breakthrough: Lightly Leveraged Covered Call ETFs and the Total Return Problem Solved 39:52 — Never Sell: The Automated Drawdown Solution and the Psychology of Buy-and-Hold Forever 47:17 — Why Crashes Are Good News for Income Investors 52:13 — The 20-Year-Old Who's Already at $3,000/Month: How Young Investors Are Using the System 54:41 — Transparency as Trust: Why Showing Your Real Portfolio Changes Everything 01:01:14 — The Biggest Misunderstandings About Covered Call ETFs 01:05:13 — How to Evaluate a Covered Call ETF: Asset, Coverage Ratio, Leverage 01:10:23 — Why Covered Call ETFs May Render Fixed Income Obsolete 01:15:31 — The Evolution of the Covered Call Space and Where It's Going 01:19:37 — What Advisors Should Learn From the Passive Income Investing Playbook 01:22:47 — Closing Thoughts: Meeting the Next Generation Where They Are#PassiveIncomeInvesting #CoveredCallETF #CanadianETFs #PassiveIncome #IncomeInvesting #DividendInvesting #FinancialIndependence #FIRECanada #DIYInvesting #ETFIncome #HamiltonETFs #GlobalXCanada #HarvestETFs #EvolveETFs #QQCL #USCL #InsightIsCapital #AdvisorAnalyst #RetirementIncome #InvestingForBeginners #CoveredCalls #OptionsIncome #BuyAndHold #PortfolioIncome #MonthlyIncome #WealthBuilding #InvestingCanada #TFSA #PersonalFinanceCanada #FinancialFreedom

May 15, 2026Episode 2571 hr 30 min

The Covered Call ETF Gap | Zed Francis and Devin Anderson

Most investors think they understand what they own — Devin Anderson and Zed Francis of Convexitas are here to prove they don't, and to show what the next generation of derivative investing actually looks like.Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick welcome Devin Anderson and Zed Francis, Co-Founders of Convexitas, for a masterclass in derivative investing that challenges everything advisors and investors think they know about covered calls, buffered ETFs, and options-based income strategies. Drawing on deep institutional backgrounds — Devin from two decades at Deutsche Bank's equity derivatives structuring desk, and Zed from UBS credit trading, distressed hedge funds, and Legal & General — the two founders lay bare the hidden complexity lurking inside "simple" yield products that dominate today's wealth management landscape.The conversation pulls no punches: the hockey-stick diagrams used to explain covered call ETFs at point-of-sale actively mask real-time risk exposures that can shift dramatically intraday. A product sold as "half the risk of equities" can quietly become nearly full equity exposure within hours of a 1% market move — and most advisors and clients have no idea. Devin and Zed argue this isn't a reason to abandon these products, but a powerful case for active, continuous derivative management that delivers what the product actually promised.The founders introduce Convexitas's philosophy: that the options market is structurally mispriced, and that most yield-seeking investors are sitting on the wrong side of that mispricing. They walk through the SMA-based approach — designed to generate accessible liquidity precisely when markets crash, enabling advisors to rebalance into distressed assets rather than being frozen by tax friction, behavioral paralysis, or trapped capital in fund wrappers. From the mechanics of short volatility to the case for unfunded overlays, return stacking, and Warren Buffett's alpha decoded through Fama-French factors, this episode is essential listening for any advisor navigating the derivative income revolution.Chapters00:00 — Introduction: The income wave reshaping wealth management04:52 — Meet Devin Anderson & Zed Francis: Career arcs and the founding of Convexitas12:16 — What investors actually own: The hidden complexity inside covered call ETFs16:18 — Real-time risk exposure: How moneyness shifts dramatically intraday19:17 — The silent danger: Stacking short volatility across multiple products28:00 — Structural mispricing in the options market: Why sellers face a systemic disadvantage38:00 — Investment products vs. trading instruments: A critical distinction for advisors43:08 — The income stack: Gaining Gold and Bitcoin exposure with capital efficiency50:43 — First-gen vs. next-gen: From buffered ETFs to actively managed derivative overlays57:08 — Tax efficiency, rebalancing, and the SMA advantage01:18:06 — Why accessible capital is the biggest benefit of risk mitigation — not mark-to-market01:23:53 — Buying when there's blood in the streets: Liquidity, structure, and Warren Buffett's alpha01:26:37 — Final outlook: Inflation, financialization, and the binary tail risks ahead#CoveredCallETF #BufferedETF #DerivativeInvesting #OptionsTrading #WealthManagement #VolatilityHarvesting #ReturnStacking #TailRiskHedge #FinancialAdvisors #IncomeInvesting #PortfolioConstruction #AlternativeInvestments #RiskManagement #TaxEfficientInvesting #SMAInvesting #RaiseYourAverage #Convexitas #InvestmentStrategy #OptionsEducation #AdvisorAlpha Copyright © AdvisorAnalyst

May 12, 2026Episode 2561 hr 4 min

Joe Canavan on Wealth, Risk, and Canada's Next Chapter

Joe Canavan built three companies that redefined how Canadians invest — then walked away, backed Wealthsimple before anyone knew the name, and now he's asking one question: why does Canada keep burning down what it builds?In this episode of Insight Is Capital, host Pierre Daillie sits down with Joe Canavan, Principal at Canavan Capital and one of Bay Street's most consequential institution builders, for a wide-ranging conversation on wealth creation, entrepreneurship, and Canada's innovation deficit. Canavan traces his career from retail advisor to founding Fidelity Canada's growth era, GT Global, and Synergy Asset Management — and through to early-stage investing in Wealthsimple, Layer 6, Koho Financial, CapIntel, and Radical AI.He unpacks why Canada's startup ecosystem was on the verge of becoming Silicon North before self-inflicted policy decisions reversed the momentum, and makes the case for a generational vision — "Innovation Nation 2047" — to build millions more millionaires, retain top talent, and attract global capital. The conversation also covers artificial general intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, financial infrastructure security, the leadership crisis in Canadian cities, and why incentives — as Charlie Munger said — determine every outcome.CHAPTERS00:00 – Introduction: What does it actually take to build wealth? 01:55 – Joe's origin story: From new-Canadian roots to Bay Street 03:23 – Building Fidelity Canada, GT Global, and Synergy Asset Management 06:38 – Stepping back, family first, and becoming the "accidental capitalist" 10:11 – How founders found Joe: Wealthsimple, Coho, Layer Six, Cap Intel 13:18 – Next Canada and building the entrepreneurship ecosystem 15:08 – Silicon North: How Canada almost became a global tech hub 18:01 – Policy failure: How capital gains tax changes broke the momentum 20:10 – Incentives drive outcomes: The Charlie Munger principle applied to Canada 22:30 – The case for millions more Canadian millionaires 24:47 – Innovation Nation 2034/2047: Own the podium for startups 39:24 – Leadership as the root cause: Cities, provinces, and the national vision 42:00 – Why financial infrastructure (the plumbing) matters more than the app 44:22 – AGI, artificial general intelligence, and the coming technological singularity 46:52 – Robotics, Elon Musk, and where the puck is going 48:14 – How Joe structures his 10-year investment thesis 52:52 – Early bet on Wealthsimple: Backing people before proof 56:39 – Altruism meets capitalism: The real cost of startup investing 58:55 – Final question: If you had the mandate to make Canada dramatically wealthier, where do you start?#CanadianEntrepreneurship #InsightIsCapital #JoeCanavan #Wealthsimple #FinancialInfrastructure #AIInvesting #QuantumComputing #SiliconNorth #VentureCapital #BayStreet #StartupEcosystem #CanadianFintech #WealthCreation #InnovationNation #LeadershipMatters #CanadianInvestors #AGI #CapitalMarkets #Fintech #AdvisorAnalyst

May 8, 2026Episode 2551 hr 8 min

Dave Nadig: The ETF Bubble Nobody is Talking About

The ETF industry has never been more powerful — or more crowded. Dave Nadig, President & Director of Research at ETF.com, joins Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick for a no-holds-barred conversation on the structural risks building beneath the surface of the world's most successful financial innovation. From a potential flood of mutual fund conversions to single-stock leverage ETFs, prediction market shenanigans, private credit illiquidity traps, tokenization timelines, AI's impact on the investment industry, and the quiet erosion of the ETF's greatest strength — simplicity — this is the ETF conversation the industry isn't having.⏱ Chapters00:00 — Introduction: Dave Nadig, President & Director of Research, ETF.com 00:46 — The Mutual Fund-to-ETF Conversion Flood: 5,000 Funds in the Pipeline 03:12 — The Plumbing Stress Test: Market Makers, Lead Market Makers & Capacity Limits 05:40 — Too Many Tickers: When Choice Becomes Paralysis 07:51 — The Case FOR Mutual Funds: Where the Structure Still Wins 10:34 — Private Credit ETFs: Retail Bag-Holding at the End of the Cycle? 13:06 — Private Equity ETFs, SpaceX Shenanigans & Liquidity Illusions 18:02 — ETF Proliferation: More Tickers Than Stocks 19:50 — The K-Shaped ETF Innovation Curve: Institutional Genius vs. Levered Junk 22:26 — Prediction Markets, Kalshi & Single-Counterparty Risk 25:04 — AI in Investment Management: Hype vs. Genuine Edge 27:18 — Tokenization: When Does It Actually Matter for Retail? 29:38 — Atomic Settlement, Blockchain, and the DTCC's Big Project 33:27 — Crypto, Prediction Markets & Where the Money Is Really Going 36:11 — 24/7 Equity Markets: Opportunity or Chaos? 45:25 — The Kitchen Drawer Metaphor: Good Tools vs. Junk Drawer ETFs 48:00 — Covered Call ETFs & the Yield Illusion: Total Return Is the Litmus Test 50:40 — How to Spot Extractive Products vs. Genuine Innovation 54:52 — Why Dave Came Back to ETF.com — and Why He Won't Stay in a Box 01:00:02 — ETF.com 3.0: Content, Pop-Up Events & the ETF Beach House 01:03:02 — The ETF Industry's Obligation: Keeping It From Going Extractive 01:07:13 — Where to Find Dave Nadig: ETF Zoo Podcast, Excess Returns & More #ETF #ETFinvesting #DaveNadig #ETFcom #RaiseYourAverage #PassiveInvesting #MutualFunds #PrivateCredit #Tokenization #MarketStructure #LeveredETF #CoveredCallETF #PredictionMarkets #InvestingEducation #WealthManagement #FinancialAdvisors #ETFbubble #PortfolioConstruction #AIinvesting #IndexFunds