MANULIFE

A NEW ECONOMY, A NEW START.

There’s never been a better time to take a hard look at your investment portfolio.

Maybe you pulled your money out right at the depth of the economic downturn, and have been sitting on the sidelines ever since, scared and unsure of how to get back in. Or perhaps you’ve realized you have too much risk in your portfolio to stomach all the ups and downs – a reality that has seemed to become the new normal for financial markets.

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MANULIFE

A WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITY

Manulife Investments, emphasizing active management, delivers a breadth of products to help advisors and investors move forward with confidence.

Solid economic data indicating both Canada and the U.S. are in recovery mode suggest investors finally have reason for optimism after several very challenging years. Yet investors still have ground to recover and many steps still lie ahead as they take charge of their financial futures. Indeed, in a wide-ranging interview, Roy Firth, Executive Vice-President, Individual Wealth Management for the Canadian division of Manulife Financial, reveals that many investors remain paralyzed by fear and uncertainty, and are unsure how best to adjust their investment portfolio mix following a period of unprecedented market volatility.

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WEALTH MANAGEMENT: A New Day

Where do we go from here? That is the question many anxious investors are asking themselves, as they grapple with the new reality of their financial situation.

By the end of last year, the Toronto Stock Exchange had lost about half of its value since hitting an all-time high in early June—taking a serious bite out of investors’ RRSPs, stock portfolios, mutual funds and other investment vehicles. One only has to look at the total assets of mutual funds, a staple of the amateur investor, as an example:  By the end of the year, they had retracted by 20.4 per cent.
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DYNAMIC FUNDS:
Building Investor Confidence

When the stock market plunges the way it did last year, its effect can be measured in unopened envelopes. Many investors are afraid to open their financial statements. They would rather avoid knowing how the market turmoil has impacted their finances.
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STANDARD LIFE: Cautious investment approach pays off in economic downturn

Last year’s economic crisis has had one silver lining, says Joseph Iannicelli, president and CEO of The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada: Out of necessity, it has created much more educated and savvy consumers who have greater interest in finding out more about existing investment vehicles. “The situation has done more to educate them than the wealth management industry could have done in years,” he notes.
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