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With Lower & Lower Interest Rates ... Whatcha Gonna Do ? :-(
October 25, 2024
12:20 pm
Dean
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Today's Food-For-Thought, from BNN . . .

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Damned if you Do ... and Damned if you Don't ! sf-confused

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October 25, 2024
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Yes sir, we are fu*ked.

October 25, 2024
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AltaRed
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I recall some members here were locking in 5 year GICs at 5+% for the past year or so and hopefully they continued the effort on subsequent renewals of maturing GICs on that ladder.....and didn't get seduced by the higher 1 year GIC rates in the meantime. Those rates look rather good now. All GIC term rates are likely going to be under 4% soon.

October 25, 2024
2:41 pm
Dean
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That 'Soon' part will most likely happen right after the BoC makes it's next interest rate announcement, on Dec. 11th.

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October 26, 2024
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Isn't this why we (should?) have been taking long positions on high yields? We've seen the rates dropping and been calculating the results of inverted yields to get our best outcomes.

I just took a 1-year for my new RRIF, but that gives me the best yield on what is a small, rapidly declining investment. The rest of my deposits map out my best yields.

If inflation is dropping, we'll still be doing better than during the peak inflation period last year.

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October 26, 2024
6:00 am
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Whatcha gonna do? I am shortening durations of fixed income. Still have money in funds with ~ 6 to 7 year effective duration (ZAG, FBND) and what used to be 5 year GICs but new money is going into funds with less than 3 years’ duration (like VSC, ZST and money market). And I swapped some ZAG for VSC a couple of months ago.

Generally I am a passive investor but more active with my 30% allocation to fixed income.

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