Vanguard's Midyear 2026 Economic Outlook: Key Trends Shaping Our Economic Future

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Join us to hear expert perspectives from Vanguard’s global economics and markets teams, focusing on the trends that are poised to define our economic future.

Key Topics:

Artificial Intelligence and Technological Advancement: Explore how AI, emerging as the most disruptive technology in decades, is reshaping global growth and investment cycles.
The Future of AI: Examine the two divergent paths for AI, either a transformative general-purpose technology or a more limited automation story, and what each means for markets.
Market Implications and Valuations: Learn how parts of the markets are increasingly being priced for perfection, with important implications for valuations, growth expectations, and risk premia.
Canadian Economic Outlook: Understand why Canada is expected to deliver resilient growth, supported by fiscal spending, rising real wages, and likely improving trade dynamics.
Energy and Oil Shock Scenarios: Learn how Canada’s role as an energy exporter creates asymmetric outcomes supporting GDP and government revenues while posing inflation risks if shocks persist

Meet our speakers

Ashish Dewan, CFA, CFP

Senior Investment Strategist, Vanguard Canada

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Ashish Dewan, CFA, CFP, is a Senior Investment Strategist for Vanguard Americas. He provides investment strategy and portfolio construction guidance to wealth managers and institutional clients across Canada and Latin America. He also develops economic and market commentary, working closely with our Global Investment Strategy team. Ashish's previous experience includes working as a Portfolio Construction Specialist for a large global asset manager. He also has experience in manager due diligence and investment writing. Ashish earned his M.B.A. in International Business from the University of Victoria. He is a CFA Charterholder and holds the CFP designation.

Parm Dhaliwal

Senior Regional Director, Vanguard

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Parm Dhaliwal is a Senior Regional Director for Vanguard Investments Canada Inc., serving British Columbia. Before joining Vanguard, he held increasingly senior positions in the investment industry. Most recently he was a regional vice president at Claymore Investments for Western Canada. Before that, He worked on the sales team at Fidelity Investments and was supervisor of trading operations at CIBC World Markets. He has over 28 years of experience in the financial services industry.

He has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, and is a CFA® charterholder.

Adam Schickling

Economist, Senior Specialist, CFA, Vanguard

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Adam Schickling, CFA, is a senior economist in Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group, where he researches trends in labor markets, demographics, globalization, and technological progress. He joined Vanguard in 2012.

Previously, he was a fixed income risk analyst in the Risk Management Group, specializing in municipal bond funds.

Mr. Schickling is a CFA® charterholder and holds an M.A. in economics.

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