Greetings!



Please join us for our signature event, the Annual Forecast Dinner, which will take place on Thursday, February 5, 2026, at the Fairmont Empress.

As in past years, the Forecast Dinner will be an evening of insightful discussion as our forecasters share their thoughts on the economic factors that influence and shape the Canadian and global financial markets for 2026 and beyond. 

This is a sellout event; early bird pricing is offered until January 3rd!

FORECASTERS

Grant Johnsey
Head of Market Solutions, Banking & Markets, Americas
Northern Trust


Grant is responsible for delivering market solutions to institutional clients across agency brokerage, transition management, security finance, and foreign exchange. Grant joined Northern Trust in 2004 and has served in a variety of roles including, global head of transition management, head of institutional brokerage in the Americas, and most recently head of ITS Americas.

Grant began his career at Capital Institutional Services (Capis), working in their London and Dallas offices. Prior to joining Northern Trust, he was overseeing the program trading and transition management business at Capis. 



Grant has a finance degree from Trinity University, and currently holds FINRA series 7, 9, 10, 24, 55, and 63 licenses.

Paul Beaudry 
Vancouver School of Economics
University of British Columbia



Paul Beaudry is currently Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Senior Economic advisor at Bennett-Jones and incoming President of the Canadian Economics Association. Professor Beaudry has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, monetary policy, labour economics, technical change, and economics growth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Research Associate at the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2019 to 2023, Professor Beaudry was Deputy Governor at the Bank of Canada. In that position he oversaw the Financial Stability Department, the International Department and the Research Department. Professor Beaudry was also the Bank of Canada Deputy for G7 and G20 meetings. Professor Beaudry has held faculty positions at Oxford University, Boston University and the Université de Montréal. He has been a visiting Professor at MIT, Sorbonne Paris, the European University Institute and the Université de Toulouse.

Professor Beaudry received a BA from Laval University (1983), an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia (1984), and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1989). He was born in Montreal.

Eric Savoie, CFA, CMT

Senior Investment Strategist
RBC Global Asset Management

Eric is an investment strategist on RBC GAM’s Macro Economic and Strategy team. In this role, he constructs and maintains ‘top-down’ forecasting and valuation models for global fixed income, equity and currency markets. He also analyzes capital markets and macroeconomic data used to drive market forecasts, asset mix, country/regional allocations and sector recommendations for balanced portfolios.

His career in the investment industry began when he joined RBC GAM in 2012. Eric has been working alongside the Chief Investment Officer as well as the Senior Portfolio Manager of RBC Portfolio Solutions since 2013.



Eric earned an MBA in 2011 from the Sprott School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering in 2010 from Carleton University. He has been a CFA charterholder since 2015.