Sarah Cunningham-Scharf, advisor.ca

Rising interest rates, inflation to cause more volatility in 2018

Canada’s economic boom in 2017 surprised economists and supported strong labour numbers. Yet, inflation also remained dormant, “which created this Goldilocks environment and, therefore, very strong financial market returns for the year,” says Luc de la Durantaye, the head of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management Inc. That won’t be the case […]

January 17, 2018 September 13, 2019
10:34

Corporate bonds ‘still look fairly attractive’

Five years ago, Patrick O’Toole said he was maintaining overweights in corporate bonds. “We think that strategy is going to pay off over the next few years,” he said at the time. It did. Over the past five years, O’Toole, vice-president of global fixed income at CIBC Asset Management, saw returns around 4.5 per cent; over […]

January 12, 2017 September 13, 2019
10:24