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For today's retired investor, safety is expensive
Ahead of MoneySense‘s May 7 Invest for Success event, editor-in-chief David Thomas asked Tom Bradley, president and co-founder of Steadyhand Investment Funds about the brave new world of fixed-income investing in a time of rock-bottom—or even negative—interest rates. What does this mean for investors?
DT: For years, investors could get by on fairly simple rules of thumb when it came to figuring out what to do with the fixed-income part in building a smart portfolio. Today it’s a lot less straightforward isn’t it?
TB: A decade ago, government bond yields were running at 2-4% above inflation. If an investor couldn’t stomach the ups and downs of the stock market, they could hide in bonds and GIC rates. Accordingly, the rule-of-thumb for your stock weighting was ‘100 minus your age’ (i.e. at 70 years of age, stocks should make up 30% of your portfolio, with bonds taking the rest).
Today, safety is expensive—secure, low-volatility alternatives barely offset inflation. To ensure a sustainable income, retired investors need to own more stocks and higher risk fixed-income vehicles than they used to.
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Hear Tom Bradley and others, including Kurt Reiman, chief investment strategist for BlackRock Canada, and MoneySense columnists Dan Bortolotti and Norm Rothery share more investing tips on May 7 in Toronto.
Tickets to Invest for Success are still available. Agenda and registration details are here.
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