Navigating Uncertainty: 3 Investment Strategies for Volatile Times
Canadian investors are facing increasing uncertainty, and as theylook to mitigate risk and hedge against inflationary pressures, it’s becoming tricky to find the right strategies.
Speaking with the Investing News Network (INN), Stephen Johnston, director at asset management firm Omnigence, explained how Canadians have gotten into this especially precarious position.
“Canada has very stagflationary macro conditions, which historically haven’t been good for inflation-adjusted returns for public equities,” he said. Stagflation refers to slow economic growth and high inflation, and Johnston noted that in real, inflation-adjusted terms, GDP per capita is stagnant or even declining right now.
In Canada, these conditions began…
