Topic: How To Invest

Pat: Could I get your opinion on RBC Balanced Fund? I hold this in a RRIF. Thanks for your help.

Article Excerpt

RBC Balanced Fund is a balanced fund that holds 61.6% of its assets in stocks, 34.7% in bonds and the rest in cash. We generally don’t recommend balanced funds, including RBC Balanced Fund. That’s because bonds are unlikely to perform as well in the next few years as they have in the last few, mainly because interest rates probably won’t fall further. In fact, they will likely hold steady or rise. That means the fund would only earn interest income on its bonds; instead of capital gains, its bond holdings could produce capital losses. We don’t recommend RBC Balanced Fund. Fund. …