Executive Vice-President and Global Economic Strategist
BMO Financial Group

Chief Economist
BMO Capital Markets

Dr. Sherry Cooper is in constant demand as a speaker and writer because of her ability to simplify and de-mystify the complex subjects of economics and finance. Canada’s national newspaper calls Sherry “the megawatt celebrity economist”. She leads a highly-respected economics team and has been repeatedly cited as one of the most influential women in Canada. Dr. Cooper is regularly quoted in the financial press and you have heard her often on radio and TV. Sherry has just published her third book, The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future, released in January 2008.

Dr. Cooper has an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and began her career at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., covering monetary policy and financial institutions. Following five years at the Fed, she joined the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as director of financial economics and moved to Canada in 1983 to become Chief Economist at Burns Fry.

The New Retirement
How It Will Change Our Future

In The New Retirement, global economic strategist Sherry Cooper explains ... MORE

Ride the Wave
Take Control in the Acceleration Age

In Ride the Wave, Dr. Sherry Cooper shows how ... MORE

The Cooper Files
A Practical Guide to Your Financial Future

Never before in history has change ... MORE

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October 22, 2009
Sherry Cooper Takes Questions from the Globe and Mail
Dr. Cooper joined a forum at the Globe and Mail’s web site to take your questions about small business and the recession. MORE

October 15, 2009
The U.S. Dollar’s Decline Is Not Such a Bad Thing
Many have suggested that the fall in the U.S. dollar is reflective of the sad state of American economic affairs replete with surging budget deficits, profligate consumer spending, overleveraged banks, enormous current account deficits and an increasing reliance on foreign capital inflows to finance the overspending MORE

October 2, 2009
Remaking the Retirement Plan, Post-Crisis
Well before the financial crisis and recession, the traditional concept of retirement was outmoded MORE

September 18, 2009
U.S. Job Woes: Canada 1990s Redux
There is a new kind of unemployment in the U.S.—long duration structural unemployment MORE

September 11, 2009
Pain Not Over Yet
By now, it is pretty obvious that the financial crisis is behind us and the global economy is experiencing a synchronized recovery MORE

September 9, 2009
Unbelievable
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal highlighted the possibility of the Chinese Investment Corporation (CIC)—the sovereign wealth fund responsible for investing roughly $300 billion (and growing) of China’s foreign exchange reserves—investing in U.S. commercial real estate which is already down roughly 35% from its peak MORE

September 4, 2009
Who's Doing All of the Saving?
Are households rebuilding their savings in the wake of the economic and financial collapse or is the rise in savings, measured as a residual in the national income accounts, merely a statistical illusion? MORE

August 28, 2009
Upward Revision in Q3 U.S. Growth
We are revising upward our forecast for third quarter growth in the U.S. by a full percentage point, from an estimated 2.8% to 3.8% MORE

August 21, 2009
An Irresistible Opportunity for Successful U.S. Fiscal Stimulus
While everyone knows that the American consumer has been the weak link in this recovery, in one sector the fiscal stimulus has opened consumer wallets MORE

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