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IVY GROWTH AND INCOME FUND $17.86

IVY GROWTH AND INCOME FUND $17.86 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (Mackenzie Financial Corp., 150 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B5. 1-800-387-0780; Web site: www.mackenziefinancial.com. Load fund — available from brokers) is a balanced fund. As such, it holds a mix of stocks, bonds and cash. Ivy Growth and Income Fund has returned 2.9% annually for the 10 years ended April 30, 2009. Over the last year, the fund lost 16.6%. Its MER is 2.08%.

The fund’s top stock holdings are: Thomson Reuters Corp., Shoppers Drug Mart, Imperial Oil, Tim Hortons, Bank of Nova Scotia, Becton Dickinson, Colgate-Palmolive, McDonald’s Corporation, Nestle SA and Reckitt Benckiser Group plc.

The $1.8-billion Ivy Growth and Income Fund holds 25% of its assets in bonds. In Canada, interest rates on bonds are between 2% and 4% annually. That’s the total return that a bond can provide from today until the day it matures. However, bonds leave investors at the mercy of inflation, which shrinks the purchasing power of all fixed-return investments. In fact, an upsurge in inflation could wipe out all returns on bonds, as well as some of their principal.

We see Ivy Growth and Income Fund as a hold.

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