Pierre Raymond is a 25-year veteran of the Financial Services industry. Driven by his passion for financial technology he has transitioned from being a quantitative stock picker, to an award-winning hedge fund manager, credit risk manager to currently a RISK IT Business Consultant. Pierre is the cofounder of Global Equity Analytics & Research Services LLC (GEARS) and a current partner at OTOS Inc.
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Distracted driving killed 3,275 people in the United States in 2023, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . Cell phone use alone accounted for 397 of those deaths. Federal regulators...
Few countries publish a multi-year roadmap of expected population growth. Canada does. Each year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) releases an Immigration Levels Plan that sets admission...
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Key Takeaways: Macro Indicator: Consumer credit scores are a vital leading indicator for bank earnings and credit cycle shifts. Rising Delinquencies: Q4 2025 data shows rising delinquency rates in subprime...
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When investors talk about the AI revolution, most of the attention goes to the applications: chatbots, copilots, and whatever new model is trending this quarter. But the durable, monetizable layer of AI...
For many investors, the real shock of the past two years wasn’t that real estate values adjusted to higher interest rates. It was how quickly the assumed liquidity of "paper real estate" disappeared....
With traditional cost-cutting levers exhausted, and moving past the initial phase of automation and hiring freezes, investors anticipate the possibility of a new, deeper source of savings. More than this,...
Market structure in 2025 is defined by elevated capital costs. Policy rates remain in the 4.00% to 4.25% range, core inflation hovers around 2.9%, and longer-term yields sit at elevated levels. The conditions...
Private equity and venture capital are flowing into accounting firms. Capital is being used to modernize operations, build digital platforms, and expand client pipelines in ways the industry has not seen...
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What happens when the search bar disappears? That question isn’t as far off as it sounds. Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s Gemini are already changing how people look for information...
Congress members buying and selling individual stocks had a busy start to the year with several elected officials having already disclosed filings following January's bumpy market delivery. U.S. markets...
