Rossport Metals & Mining Fund’s Outlook for Gold – Challenges for Further Price AppreciationAug14

Gold spiked to new all-time highs of US$2070 and Euro 1740 last week and is currently trading about US$1940 and Euro 1640 after a sharp correction in the past two days. That correction has modestly muted our more cautious view we had heading into this week. Forecasting gold is always dangerous because one can’t predict the future. We recall reading about a gold trader who lost his job after heavily shorting gold in December 1979 at around $500 after the price about doubled in the prior six months. Then the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and gold quickly went to over $800.

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White Paper: Bank Stocks Poised for Multi-Year Bull RunAug7

In this white paper, we discuss major market cycles for bank stocks which have not traded as cheaply since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) that ended in July of 2009, due to their cyclical business models tied to ebbs and flows of the economy. We furthermore conclude, that after a sharp move down in reaction to the COVID‐19 pandemic, banks may have begun a large, multi‐year bull market move, particularly as peak loan losses(a buy signal) may have already taken place

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Building Stronger Remote RelationshipsAug5

August is here, and we are still largely working remotely in the financial services industry. This separation from clients and prospects is particularly difficult to manage for those tasked with marketing, business development, and client relationships. There just isn’t an equivalent substitute for meeting and interacting in person for some of these functions, yet this is required for the majority of businesses in 2020 for the undetermined future. Some ideas to help mitigate the impersonal and isolated feeling that working remote can generate follow below

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