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Are your fixed income investments safe? Are you sure?

Posted By Kelly Willis, Editor On December 16th, 2010

The devastating market correction of 2008/2009 and the accompanying global economic recession have left many investors feeling skittish about stocks.

While some have stood by with a ‘buy and hold’ approach, many abandoned equities and flocked to fixed income investments, such as money market instruments and bonds.

i 187f57ae142157bf64881024783b4589 iStock 000002481097Medium no grey(1) Are your fixed income investments safe? Are you sure? According to a report by Barron’s, in the United States, since the start of 2010, more than US$274 billion has flowed into bond funds, while net $35 billion has been redeemed from equity funds.

It’s a natural human tendency to react to short term market fluctuations. But could investors be taking on new risks they are unaware of?

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Tags: Bonds, Interest Rates, Investing, Making Sense of the Economy, Maureen Farrow

Digesting the economy

Posted By Mike Vanderburgh On November 5th, 2010

i 29009350cc26daa99a7bd9da1952286b economy blog Digesting the economy We just returned from a breakfast presentation by our economic advisor, Maureen Farrow who was speaking to some of our clients at an Inside the Tent event in Mississauga. The timing was opportune as equity markets are soaring, Canadian jobless numbers are improving and the US embarks on another round of fiscal stimulus and quantitative easing (flooding the market with cash).

While the newspapers, evening news and markets seem to concentrate on the silver lining, there are indeed many clouds on the horizon and investors would be right to ask whether all of this is too good to be true. Maureen did an excellent job of reflecting our thoughts that while things are certainly improving, many countries around the world and in particular Europe and the US have a very long road ahead of them when it comes to economic recovery.

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Tags: Investing, Making Sense of the Economy, Maureen Farrow

The prosperity gap

Posted By Peter Churchill-Smith On April 13th, 2010

We had our quarterly visit from Maureen Farrow last week. (Maureen is a highly-respected Canadian economist whom we retain to provide us with economic analysis and briefings.)

All things being equal given the tough economy,she’s feeling relatively bullish about Canada’s prospects these days. There is an unusual amount of global investor interest in our country and with good reason.

After all, it’s no secret that Canada has survived the financial crisis better than almost all other major industrialized nations of the world.

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