Week Ending: 4 September 2026

Canada CA Financial Services Industry

Insurance - Diversified

For the week ending 04 September 2026, Insurance - Diversified advanced 0.57% with 3 advancing, 1 declining, and 0 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Deceleration

The positive Trend gate remains, but fan energy or fast-line momentum is cooling.

63 technical evidence
Index2190.96 1 week0.57% Breadth75% Members4
Country 🇨🇦 Canada · CA
Sector Financial Services
Universe country-listed
Price basis Adjusted weekly close

Trend architecture

Index, activity fan and structural anchors

Rolling 156-week evidence. Trend Signal points mark weeks when price, trend and the activity fan confirmed together.

Index Value Trend Line Fair Value Activity Lines Constructive architecture Transitional architecture Defensive architecture
Current architecture Deceleration 3 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance 5.0% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 100% Positive across every horizon
Participation 75% 3 advancing, 1 declining

Investor positioning lens

Is the evidence ready for capital?

A rules-based technical classification using trend, breadth, persistence, relative strength and path quality.

Current posture Wait for re-acceleration

Headline strength is not yet confirmed by the current Activity Line energy and constituent trend mix.

63 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Wait
Trend
69
Breadth
69
Persistence
62
Relative
24
Risk quality
94
What supports the view
  • The index remains above a constructive Trend gate.
  • Participation is broad enough to support the index move.
  • Constituent trends show positive multi-horizon persistence.
What restrains conviction
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • Activity Line energy is decelerating despite the positive Trend gate.
  • The index is extended well above current Fair Value, increasing chase risk.
  • Positive contribution is concentrated in a small leadership cohort.

This is a weekly research classification, not personal investment advice. Sentiment is reported as an independent confirmation layer and does not alter the technical score.

Trend state and durability

Architecture, persistence and constituent regimes

The index path is tested against the underlying security-level trend evidence.

Index architecture Deceleration

The positive Trend gate remains, but fan energy or fast-line momentum is cooling.

State age3 weeks
Trend gateUp
Fan width2.99%
Fast versus slow change-3.11 pts
Above 33% Below 0%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Positive across every horizon

100% agreement

The 13, 26, 39 and 52-week trends all point upward, giving the advance broad horizon agreement.

13-week
4.2%
26-week
15.3%
39-week
11.5%
52-week
11.7%
Regime age104 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary1961.90
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive50%
Coherent negative25%
Average horizon agreement88%
Positive horizon share62%
Weakening positives0
Repairing negatives1

4 constituents measured as of 4 Sep 2026. Median trend age is 44 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing25%1 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing50%2 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution0%0 securities
Stage 4 · Declining25%1 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch0 Relative strength leaders50% Fair Value repairs0

Measured as of 4 Sep 2026. Stages summarize price, Activity Line architecture, Fair Value position and relative evidence.

Architecture breadth

How market energy is distributed

78/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
25% 1
Rotation up
0% 0
Deceleration
50% 2
Balance
0% 0
Rotation down
25% 1
Downward expansion
0% 0
Unresolved
0% 0

Architecture breadth shows the distribution of expanding, rotating, balancing and contracting securities. It is diagnostic context and is not added as a second vote in the positioning score.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Financial Services

Weakening
Relative index 13-week relative trend Starting level
Rotation dashboard Weakening

A rising relative line means this group is compounding faster than Financial Services. A falling line means capital has done better in the parent benchmark.

Relative index81.0
13-week trend82.1
4-week trend change0.26%
Weekly peer rank7 of 9
1 week
-0.6 pts relative
4 weeks
-3.8 pts relative
13 weeks
-0.6 pts relative
26 weeks
1.0 pts relative
52 weeks
-20.2 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

Equal-weight index evidence with constituent-level breadth and dispersion.

Breadth

Participation quality

Broad
Advancing
3
Declining
1
Unchanged
0
4-week average 38%
13-week average 63%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility14.1%
Drawdown from 52-week high-4.4%
Positive weeks, last 1369%
Current directional run2 weeks
Turnover versus 13-week norm309%
Breadth impulse12.5 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

4 measured
Q1 -0.7% Median 1.1% Q3 2.4%
Average winner1.7%
Average loser-2.7%
Dispersion2.2 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share100%
Capital data coverage100%

Dispersion describes how far constituent outcomes are spreading apart. Capital concentration is contextual only; the index itself is equal weighted.

Momentum cycle

30-week persistence

Positive readings show expansion. Negative readings show contraction.

Breadth cycle

Net participation

Advancers less decliners as a percentage of measured constituents.

News and narrative

Does company news confirm the market tape?

Open Sentiment Intelligence
Sentiment evidence is still developing

Qualified company-level news coverage is not yet broad enough to influence the group view.

0 qualified records across 4 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 4 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 IAG iA Financial Corporation Inc. TOR 17.40B 203.86 0.69 pts
2.74%
2 SLF Sun Life Financial Inc. TOR 60.36B 112.09 0.56 pts
2.25%
3 BRK Berkshire Hathaway Inc. TOR 1.42T 36.63 0.01 pts
0.03%
4 BNT Brookfield Wealth Solutions Ltd. TOR 15.80B 55.99 -0.69 pts
-2.74%

The index uses capped equal-weight weekly constituent returns. The ledger shows uncapped security returns so outliers remain visible for research.

Evidence context