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     Nathan Parkhouse, CFP, CIM, FMA
     Founder & Financial Advisor
 
     121 King St W, Suite 2140
     Toronto, Ontario
 
     Phone: 416.838.3617
          Nathan@ParkhouseFinancial.ca
     www.ParkhouseFinancial.ca

Thank you to all of our clients and friends for a terrific first decade in business - Parkhouse Financial's doors first opened in late 2006! In particular, thank you for the significant amount of referral business that we received, especially throughout the last couple of years. We appreciate your support always and take that vote of confidence seriously. We always enjoy working with you and welcoming new clients too. You make our job fun!

Dear Friends & Associates,

I would like to extend my best wishes to you and your family for a happy, healthy 2016 and look forward to the opportunity to work with you as your investment advisor.

As we enter a new year, global capital markets have been volatile, continuing the challenging conditions that characterized much of last year. Although the global economy is still slowly growing, many bond and equity markets are being affected by a combination of factors, including several sharp sell-offs in the Chinese stock market, sinking commodity prices, soft economic data and uncertainty surrounding the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates for the first time since the financial crisis.

John Poulter, the Portfolio Manager and Chief Financial Officer, at Portfolio Strategies Securities Inc., comments on the markets and his portfolios in his quarterly outlook.
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Investment markets around the world have grown increasingly volatile recently because Greece has, thus far, failed to secure help to pay its national debt, raising questions about the future of the Eurozone, the health of European banks and what the crisis could mean globally.

Normal commerce has now become impossible in Greece.  Small businesses, lacking use of credit cards or money from bank accounts, are left to rely on cash coming from diminishing purchases from customers.  But Greeks are holding on tight to what they have. And suppliers are demanding that businesses pay cash up front.

John Poulter, the Portfolio Manager and Chief Financial Officer, at Portfolio Strategies Securities Inc., comments on the markets and his portfolios in his quarterly outlook.

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