Topic: How To Invest

Pat: Can you give me your opinion on the CI Select 50i50e Managed Portfolio Fund?

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CI Select 50i50e Managed Portfolio Fund is a balanced mutual fund, holding a mixture of stocks and bonds. It holds 50% of its assets in bonds and 50% in Canadian, U.S. and foreign stocks. The fund has a 2.32% MER. We don’t generally recommend balanced funds, as bonds are unlikely to perform well over the next few years, if only because interest rates 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. The CI Select 50i50e Managed Portfolio Fund holds mostly corporate bonds, which are riskier than government bonds and have risk levels that vary widely. Some corporates are almost as safe as government bonds and offer only slightly higher yields. Others offer higher yields but are much riskier. We don’t recommend the CI Select 50i50e Managed Portfolio Fund. Fund. …