# Wellington\-Altus: Independent Private Wealth Management, Holistic Wealth Planning, Investment and Protection

> Independent Private Wealth Management\. Holistic Wealth Planning, Investment and Protection\.

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## Pages
- [National Advisory Desk](https://wellington-altus.ca//national-advisory-desk/)
- [Legal](https://wellington-altus.ca//legal/)
- [About](https://wellington-altus.ca//about/)
- [Award\-Winning Firm](https://wellington-altus.ca//award-winning-firm/)
- [Careers](https://wellington-altus.ca//careers/)

## Posts
- [July Market Insights: Trump's Meta Game, Pax Americana, and the AI Age](https://wellington-altus.ca//july-market-insights-trumps-meta-game-pax-americana-and-the-age-of-ai/): In politics and markets, the decisive contest is often the one being played above the visible struggle\. Elections, earnings and summit communiqués are the surface game—the real action lies in the metagame, the contest over rules, incentives and narratives that shape outcomes long after today’s skirmishes are forgotten\. Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and political scientist, warned that most statesmen get lost in the “manifestations of events”—daily crises, tactical choices and headlines—and fail to read the deeper “trend of events” that gives those crises meaning\. Investors make the same mistake when they trade every move in yields or volatility but never ask which regime those data points are compounding into over a five‑ or ten‑year horizon\.
- [June Market Insights: America at 250](https://wellington-altus.ca//june-market-insights-america-at-250/): America reaches its 250th anniversary not as a fallen hegemon, but as the dominant centre of global hard power, monetary power, and frontier innovation\. It still sits astride the world’s resource base through energy, agriculture, and continental depth; it still issues the reserve currency at the core of global trade and finance; and it still leads the race to build artificial intelligence \(AI\) as the next digital platform\. Yet precisely because American power remains so large, the visible breakdown of the post–Second World War rules\-based order has become impossible to ignore\. To anyone who has read German historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West \(1918\), this is not a surprise but a pattern: history is not a straight line of progress\. Instead, it is the record of civilizations that rise as living cultures harden into systems and eventually exhaust the moral energy that made them great in the first place\. America did not choose this time, but it has been born into it\.
- [November Market Insights: Wealth In A Capex Supercycle](https://wellington-altus.ca//november-market-insights-wealth-in-a-capex-supercycle/)
- [January Market Insights: The 2026 Market Forecast](https://wellington-altus.ca//january-market-insights-the-2026-market-forecast/): History does not move in straight lines\. Markets ricochet between excess and restraint in violent cycles, a truth American economist Peter Bernstein hammered home and one investors are again being forced to relearn\. The foundation for the 2026 investment thesis is that with interest payments on U\.S\. debt now exceeding annual defense spending, the fiscal constraint has become too binding to ignore, and structural adjustment is no longer optional\. We have no choice but to adjust; the system is in a state of flux\.

- [April Market Insights: Bretton Woods 2\.0, the New Great Game, and Trump](https://wellington-altus.ca//april-market-insights-bretton-woods-2-0-the-new-great-game-and-trump/): U\.S\. President Donald Trump’s second term is not just another burst of tariff theatre; it is the opening move in a new great game over energy, artificial intelligence \(AI\), and money\. By neutralizing Iran and Venezuela, squeezing Cuba, binding Canada, and courting Russia, Washington is trying to re\-anchor oil in U\.S\. dollars and push BRICS’ \[1\] monetary ambitions to the margins\. Layered on top are digital rails—dollar\-backed stablecoins, tokenized Treasuries, gold, and even a strategic bitcoin reserve—designed to harden, not retire, King Dollar\. If it works, Bretton Woods 2\.0 will arrive not as a conference, but as the unannounced sequel to a crisis\-ridden decade, with the U\.S\. once again writing the rules\.

## Advisors
- [Grant Powers](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisor/grant-powers/)
- [Steve Damberger](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisor/steve-damberger/)
- [Darren Luck​](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisor/darren-luck/)
- [Stephanie Senteris](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisor/stephanie-senteris/)
- [Michael Zagari](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisor/michael-zagari/)

## Locations
- [Parksville](https://wellington-altus.ca//location/parksville/)
- [Nanaimo](https://wellington-altus.ca//location/nanaimo/)
- [Kingston](https://wellington-altus.ca//location/kingston/)
- [Guelph](https://wellington-altus.ca//location/guelph/)
- [Winnipeg \- Taylor](https://wellington-altus.ca//location/winnipeg-taylor/)

## Leaders
- [Mark Rarog](https://wellington-altus.ca//leadership/mark-rarog/)
- [Mike Locke](https://wellington-altus.ca//leadership/mike-locke/)
- [Jennifer Hochstein](https://wellington-altus.ca//leadership/jennifer-hochstein/)
- [James Thorne](https://wellington-altus.ca//leadership/james-thorne/)
- [James Virgo](https://wellington-altus.ca//leadership/james-virgo/)

## AWPGs
- [Travis Duhn](https://wellington-altus.ca//awpg/travis-duhn/)
- [Alton Mendes](https://wellington-altus.ca//awpg/alton-mendes/)
- [Marko Vujadin](https://wellington-altus.ca//awpg/marko-vujadin/)
- [Suniel Peirson](https://wellington-altus.ca//awpg/suniel-peirson/)
- [Behdad Ahmadi](https://wellington-altus.ca//awpg/behdad-ahmadi/)

## Women of Wellington members
- [Michele Santos](https://wellington-altus.ca//women-of-wellington/michele-santos/)
- [Julie Shipley\-Strickland](https://wellington-altus.ca//women-of-wellington/julie-shipley-strickland/)
- [Elaine Knotek\-Holmes](https://wellington-altus.ca//women-of-wellington/elaine-knotek-holmes/)
- [Sarah Jones](https://wellington-altus.ca//women-of-wellington/sarah-jones/)
- [Jennifer Hochstein](https://wellington-altus.ca//women-of-wellington/jennifer-hochstein/)

## National Advisory Desk Team Members
- [Charlie Purcell](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisory-desk-team/charlie-purcell/)
- [Mervyn Adams](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisory-desk-team/mervyn-adams/)
- [Jeffrey MacDonald](https://wellington-altus.ca//advisory-desk-team/jeffrey-macdonald/)

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