At Cidel, we have long been concerned about the level of risk investors are taking in interest rate sensitive securities and the potential conclusion of a 30 year bond bull market. Somewhat lost in the massive surge in global equities (hello Dow 19,000!) has been the massive sell-off in the bond market. Bloomberg takes a look at the carnage and where we go from here. Please contact us to discuss further.

In an ever-shifting sports media environment, where e-sports are thriving and NFL ratings are nose-diving, perhaps it isn’t surprising that an unlikely new star has emerged in one of our oldest and most august pastimes. Vice takes a look at how Magnus Carlsen is almost single handedly making chess cool again.

Bloomberg Pursuits’ wine guru Elin McCoy takes a journey to the find the decade’s best new world chardonnays and finds them in….Prince Edward County, Ontario? In a glowing review, she praises the region’s climate and limestone as ideal for the trend towards more minerality and acidity versus the fat, oaky California chardonnays.