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Fiera Capital 2026 Q3 Investor Letter | Buyside Digest

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Primary Source Intelligence • Q3 2026 Letter Analysis

Fiera Capital Quarterly Analysis

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Fund Returns

Positioning StanceCAUTIOUS

GeographyGlobal, US, Emerging markets

Digest Analysis

Quick Take

"Defensive on public equities and traditional bonds amid sticky inflation and rising bond yields, overweighting cash, real assets, private credit, and private equity for resilient, uncorrelated income."

Executive Summary

Fiera Capital maintains a cautious tactical positioning heading into the fourth quarter of 2026, setting traditional equities and fixed income to underweight while holding an overweight posture in cash and private markets. No fund-level net performance returns were disclosed in the report. In its model portfolio, the firm holds a 17.5% overweight to money market cash, fully zeroes out its 17.5% benchmark allocation to U.S. investment-grade bonds, and underweights public equities by 10.0% (-5.0% each in international and emerging market equities), citing deteriorating risk-reward across public capital markets. The manager's macroeconomic framework assigns a 45% probability to a 'Sustained Inflation' base case and a 30% probability to 'Stagflation', with recession (15%) and a disinflationary productivity boom (10%) representing the tails. The outlook reflects persistent headline price pressures driven by geopolitical energy disruptions, trade policy tariffs, and AI infrastructure capex bottlenecks ('chipflation'). With central banks constrained by sticky inflation and bond yields pushing to multi-year highs, traditional 60/40 balanced allocations face severe duration headwinds and multiple compression. Without naming individual single-stock equity holdings, Fiera advocates strategic deployment toward non-traditional asset classes. Non-traditional income is overweighted by 8.5% across diversified credit (15.5% strategy vs. 12.0% benchmark) and real assets (23.0% strategy vs. 18.0% benchmark), alongside a modest 1.5% overweight to private equity (16.5% strategy vs. 15.0% benchmark) to access resilient cash flows, lower public market correlations, and inflation-protected return profiles.

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Signal Matrix

Market Conviction

35%

CautiousHigh

Cautious (35%)

Fiera presents broad macroeconomic scenarios and asset allocation shifts across model benchmarks rather than high-conviction, concentrated single-security bets. The document emphasizes multi-asset diversification across private markets and cash with no individual corporate issuers or concentrated holdings pitched. Uncertainty across geopolitical and central bank reaction functions is explicitly emphasized through probabilistic scenarios.

Growth Outlook

25%

BearishBullish

Bearish (25%)

The firm outlines a cautious baseline dominated by sustained inflation and potential stagflation, viewing equity markets as vulnerable to negative surprises. High interest rates, lofty public market valuations, and margin compression from rising debt costs pose downside risks to both earnings multiples and economic activity.

Risk Appetite

25%

DefensiveAggressive

Defensive (25%)

Capital positioning reflects a defensive posture, eliminating U.S. investment-grade debt exposure to 0% and reducing public equity exposure by 10% below benchmark. Risk exposure is channeled predominantly into capital preservation via a 17.5% cash allocation and asset-backed private market strategies.

Capital Deployment

30%

De-riskingDeploying

De-risking (30%)

The portfolio has substantially derisked by shifting 17.5% of total capital into money market instruments while completely divesting U.S. investment-grade bonds. Net risk-asset deployment is restricted to selective private credit and real estate allocations.

Forward Guidance

45%

CautiousExpansionary

Neutral (45%)

The manager favors holding dry powder in cash and observing central bank policy actions and geopolitical developments over active near-term deployment. Marginal capital additions are strictly reserved for private credit and real assets rather than buying dips in public markets.

Language Signal

25%

BearishBullish

Bearish (25%)

The text is dominated by risk-averse terminology, repeatedly referencing 'downside risks', 'multiple compression', 'sticky inflation', 'stagflation', and 'fragile' economic momentum. Optimistic terminology is mostly confined to the low-probability (10%) 'productivity boom' tail-risk scenario.

Perceived Risk

80%

Low RiskElevated

Elevated Risk (80%)

The firm highlights extensive systemic and macro threats, including escalating Middle Eastern conflict, energy supply shocks, expanding global tariff regimes, and debt-fueled AI capex vulnerabilities that could spark stagflation.

Opportunity Density

35%

ScarceAbundant

Selective (35%)

Opportunities across traditional public equities and bonds are characterized as scarce and vulnerable given high baseline valuations and interest rate headwinds. Attractive risk-adjusted return density is identified almost exclusively within non-traditional income, private debt, and real assets.

Time Horizon

45%

Short-TermLong-Term

Multi-Year (45%)

Tactical asset allocation guidance is explicitly anchored over a 12-to-18-month investment horizon, while incorporating secular 5-year views on deglobalization, demographics, and energy transitions.