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Video: ‘Beyond the Family Business’ with Jen McCain, president of Irie Capital Corporation
In this episode of “Beyond the Family Business,” Luke sits down with Jen McCain, whose family founded the multinational frozen food company McCain Foods in 1957.
McCain has carved out a niche of her own as the president of Toronto-based Irie Capital Corporation, a privately held investment and holding company focused on acquiring small and medium-sized businesses.
In her conversation with Luke, she shares how she came to understand her own value, the concept of ownership as a skillset, and how she sees herself within the family ecosystem.
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The Iran conflict’s silver lining for global ex-U.S. stocks
‘Negative sentiment creates an opportunity only if reality is likely to prove better than feared. We think it is. Regional conflicts, even those involving major oil-producing areas, don’t typically derail bull markets.’
Markets don’t move on what happens alone—they move most on the gap between what happens and what investors expected. When reality beats depressed expectations, prices tend to rise to close that gap. Our research suggests the Iran conflict created exactly that dynamic for non-U.S. developed markets. While the Iran war reset sentiment lower everywhere, it hit professional expectations for Europe and Asia particularly hard—harder than reality warrants. We think this makes the case for non-U.S. leadership even more compelling than at 2026’s outset.
This article is brought to you by Fisher Investments Institutional Group.
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