Market volatility and increasing expenses can have many retirees concerned whether their retirement income will last as long as they live. In this video segment, Peter discusses four key retirement questions you should consider to help plan for the unexpected.
Media headlines and market uncertainty have left many aging investors with the feeling “I’m worried that I won’t have enough”. In this first segment of Life & Money Matters, Peter shares some of the top retirement planning concerns among investors.
This article was written by David Keelaghan, News Editor and originally appeared in Wealth Professional on February 21, 2017.
Research is finding that more and more aging Canadians today aren’t saving for retirement. They are seeking financial freedom. That’s not freedom from money. It’s the kind of freedom they feel when they can do what they want to do and when they want to do it. Yet we all know that how we manage, invest and spend our money can have a huge impact on our life and our lifestyle.
Amber Sinha, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Equities provides his perspective on the three reasons why markets are optimistic about a Trump presidency.
Tactically Increased Canadian Equities, Decreased U.S. Equities
We’re now a little over a month since the surprise election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The other surprise to most is that financial markets have responded as strongly as we witnessed since market open on November 9th (see table below). It is almost as if the Trump presidency is the “cure-all” elixir for all that ails us.
When it comes to selling investments, the old saying goes; BUY LOW, SELL HIGH! Tax loss selling is one of the very few reasons you may consider actually selling low.
Try Googling “Trump and Reagan” and you will get plenty of material on the comparison between the two, on so many fronts. Even in the financial markets, the foreign exchange market seems to have started to price in a scenario that the Trump presidency will be something like Reagan’s in the 1980s – a scenario that includes a U.S. dollar boom.
