It is well known that the Canadian banks performed very well during the financial crisis relative to their global peers, and the U.S. banks in particular. However, what is less well known is that the Australian banks did even better than the Canadian banks, generating higher returns from 2007 through 2009, the years encompassing the financial crisis (see chart below). As we explain in “Dividend-Heavy Australian…
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Dividend-Heavy Australian Financials: History of Outperformance vs. Canadian Peers
All Canadian bank investors know that the sector has experienced very good performance over the past ten to fifteen years. However, most are less familiar with Australia, which actually has a history of long-term outperformance relative to the Canadian financials, with virtually identical volatility. Interestingly, as a testament to the strength of the Australian financial sector, its banks even outperformed the Canadian banks during the global…
HCB: A New Strategy for Bank Investors (Wealth Professional Article)
Wealth Professional interviewed Rob Wessel, Managing Partner at Hamilton Capital, following the launch of the Hamilton Capital Canadian Bank Variable-Weight ETF (HCB). The interview covers mean reversion trends and how they are incorporated into HCB, how the strategy might lower risk in period of market turbulence. Click here to read more.
Hamilton Capital Launches Hamilton Capital Australian Financials Yield ETF
TORONTO, December 14, 2018 – Hamilton Capital Partners Inc. (“Hamilton Capital“) is pleased to announce the launch of the Hamilton Capital Australian Financials Yield ETF (“HFA“). HFA seeks long-term returns consisting of regular dividend income with modest long-term capital growth from an actively-managed equity portfolio comprised primarily of Australia-based financial services companies. HFA will also employ a covered call strategy to help generate additional income and…
HFY: Despite Global Sell-off, 5% Yield Helping HFY Hold in vs. Even the Lowest Beta Countries
In periods of high macro uncertainty/market volatility, certain countries’ financials tend to hold up better – i.e., decline less in corrections. Most prominent among these low beta countries are Canada, Australia and virtually all Northern European countries (HFY has ~20% exposure). These countries are all wealthy and importantly their financial sectors have healthy dividend yields. 2018 has been a very challenging year, with many global financial…
U.S. Financials | Analysts vs. the Markets (as Fundamentals/Stock Prices Diverge)
This has been a tough month for the financials, particularly banks. What made this correction unusual is that throughout October, the financials continued to post very high earnings growth, and with minimal downgrades in estimates/target prices, the ingredients for a sharp sell-off were largely absent. Of the 270 financial services stocks covered by the U.S. broker-dealer, Sandler O’Neill + Partners (SOP), over 70% met or beat…
U.S. Financials | Mid-Caps Longer-Term Outperformance in One Chart
Given the media attention given to the U. S. large-cap financials (e.g., JPM, MetLife, AIG), Canadian investors can’t be faulted for sometimes neglecting to diversify into the very large and varied mid-cap financial sector south of the border. That said, in our view, investors should not overlook this important sub-sector given its long-term history of material outperformance relative to its better known large-cap peers, as evidenced…
BNN: Canadian Banks Read-Through from U.S. Financials Earnings
Rob Wessel appeared on BNN this morning to talk about the Canadian banks. Rob discussed the implications to the Canadian bank profitability from the earnings reported by the U.S. large-cap financials thus far. He also talked about the firm’s new ETF, the Hamilton Capital Canadian Bank Variable-Weight ETF (HCB) as a vehicle to gain exposure to mean reversion, one of the most popular themes in Canadian…
Hamilton Capital Announces Q4 2018 Distributions and Name Change for HCB
TORONTO, October 16, 2018 – Hamilton Capital today announced that the name of its exchange-traded fund, the Hamilton Capital Canadian Bank Dynamic-Weight ETF is, effective immediately, changed to the Hamilton Capital Canadian Bank Variable-Weight ETF (the “ETF” or “HCB”). Class E units for the ETF continue to trade under the ticker HCB on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The investment objective of HCB, which is to generate…
Notes from Chicago: Opinions on the Canadian Banks (part 1)
We recently met with the top management of four Chicago-headquartered U.S. mid-cap banks (see related October 9, 2018 “Notes from Chicago – Three Takeaways from the Windy City (Part 2)”). Given their large presence in this giant MSA, it was not surprising that the Canadian banks and their speculated U.S. expansion plans were a frequent discussion topic. Chicago is the single most important market to Canadian…
Notes from Chicago: 3 Takeaways from the Windy City (part 2)
We recently met the top management of four U.S. mid-cap banks headquartered in Chicago (see related October 10, 2018 “Notes from Chicago – What the Banks Said About the Canadian Banks/M&A (Part 1)”). Chicago is the third largest U.S. MSAwith real GDP of US$583 billion and a population of 9.6 million. Although large, the Chicago MSA has one of the least favourable demographic profiles among the “large…
Opening the TSX, launching our Canadian Bank Variable-Weight ETF
On October 2, 2018, Hamilton Capital and its partners joined the TMX Group to open the market to launch Hamilton Capital Canadian Bank Variable-Weight ETF (HCB;TSX). HCB commenced trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on October 1, 2018.