Curtis Cusinato comments in the feature story on the boom in private equity investing in Lexpert's Special Edition on Finance and M&A. He says there is currently an estimated $2 trillion of “dry powder” in the PE market and that, "private equity will continue to be very active in this upcoming year, and certainly that activity will keep pressure on pricing."

Curtis also looked at market segments and industries in the story: 

As for rising stars like cannabis, artificial intelligence and technologies and cryptocurrencies, “a lot of that attractiveness to those segments has certainly decreased,” says Cusinato.

In Canadian capital markets the two traditional resource sectors are mining and oil and gas, and while the market in those sectors has been less robust in recent years, Cusinato has “a more positive outlook going into 2020” for alternative minerals, such as lithium, and for rare earth. He also sees a favourable forecast for real estate/REITs.