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When Derek Moran gets a call from someone who needs help investing a large chunk of money, he doesn’t send them to a traditional investment adviser or mutual fund salesperson. Instead, the Kelowna, B.C., financial planner always recommends a private investment...
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Post-traumatic stress investing
The global financial crisis has receded, stock markets have soared and there’s even talk the economy is reviving. Yet Canadian investors remain traumatized enough to have taken $90-billion that might otherwise be in the stock markets and stashed it in savings accounts, money market funds, guaranteed investment certificates and other places that pay next to nothing but offer near impregnable safety.
“The numbers say that risk avoidance has been on the rise for sure,” said Earl Bederman, president of the analysis firm Investors Economics. “The question that arises right now is how much of this is a temporary adjustment to the circumstances of last year and how much of it is going to be permanently...
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