In this episode, special guest Sohrab Movahedi, ETF Strategist Bipan Rai, and your host, Skye Collyer, take a deep dive into Canada’s Big Six banks, from first-quarter earnings results to Trump’s tariffs and all the key themes in between. Skye Collyer is a Director of ETF Distribution at BMO Global Asset Management. She is joined on the podcast by Bipan Rai, Head of ETF Strategy, Exchange Traded Funds, at BMO Global Asset Management, and Sohrab Movahedi, Managing Director of Financials Research at BMO Capital Markets. This episode was recorded on Monday, March 10, 2025.

Sohrab Movahedi
Banks & Asset Managers Analyst
BMO Capital Markets
Sohrab joined BMO Capital Markets Equity Research in 2014 as the Canadian banks analyst. Prior to joining BMO, Sohrab was a senior portfolio manager and financials sector head in the Global Corporate Securities group of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Previous to that, Sohrab spent 13 years at CIBC in various senior management roles in risk and finance.
In the 2020 and 2021 Brendan Wood International Surveys, Sohrab was ranked as a TopGun analyst for the Canadian banks sector.
Sohrab holds a bachelor of engineering science (civil engineering) and bachelor of arts in economics both from Western University (1994), and an MBA from Schulich School of Business (1996).