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Joey Mack will provide some surprising facts about bond market returns, and provide guidance over how investors can participate in the top performing asset classes in Canada.

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Learn more about the positive outlook the BlackRock Total Return Fund portfolio management team has for bond markets in 2018.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

However, the reaction of the bond market is another story altogether, with yields on 10 - year Treasuries recently returning to about where they were when this year began.

Given that the Market Climate in bonds continues to be characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a muted duration of about 2 years, mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected SecurMarket Climate in bonds continues to be characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a muted duration of about 2 years, mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securmarket action, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a muted duration of about 2 years, mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.

One thing that's markedly different about bond markets, however, is the inherent asymmetry of potential returns: The best a bond can do is pull to par, but the worst it can do is default — taking your capital investment with it.

In bonds, the Market Climate was characterized by relatively neutral valuations and unfavorable market action, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a relatively limited duration of about 2.5 Market Climate was characterized by relatively neutral valuations and unfavorable market action, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a relatively limited duration of about 2.5 market action, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a relatively limited duration of about 2.5 years.

So a portfolio that contains a balance of market - tracking equities and bonds will, history suggests, likely earn average returns of about 4 to 5 percent per year.

Interesting, I always felt bad (yes, even through the recent bear market) about putting 8 % into bonds due to the low returns, but this is reassuring.

I eventually cobbled together about a dozen ETFs, covering everything from emerging markets, to real - return bonds, to U.S. small - cap value stocks.

The total return on the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund was about 3.5 % annually from 2004 through 2006.

But given today's low interest rates (recently about 2.3 % for 10 - year Treasuries) and relatively rich stock valuations (Yale finance professor Robert Shiller's cyclically adjusted P / E ratio for the stock market recently stood at 29.2 vs. an average of 16.7 since 1900), it would seem to strain credulity to expect anything close to the annualized returns of close to the annualized return of 10 % for stocks and 5 % for bonds over the past 90 years or so, let alone the dizzying gains the market has generated from its post-financial crisis lows.

From about mid-April (see last vertical line), both the bond and equity markets have been falling, making it very difficult to make returns whether you own bonds, equities or both.

When we talk about credit, we refer to the likes of investment grade bonds (issued by more creditworthy companies), high yield bonds (issued by less creditworthy companies, but offering more return and income in exchange), and emerging market bonds.

In Strategic Total Return, we slightly increased our bond market duration to about 3 years on the spike in Treasury yields last week.

The market is really worried about rising interest rates, but this is actually a minor issue when it comes to future bond returns.

Up until I read about the buzz around Vanguard and it's lower MERs, I was planning on investing all of our money in the Complete Couch Potato portfolio as suggested in the 2011 Edition of the MoneySense Guide To The Perfect Portfolio: i.e. — Canadian equity 20 % iShares S&P / TSX Capped Composite (XIC) US equity 15 % Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI) International equity 15 % Vanguard Total International Stock (VXUS) Real estate investment trusts 10 % BMO Equal Weight REITs (ZRE) Real - return bonds 10 % iShares DEX Real - Return Bond (XRB) Canadian bonds 30 % iShares DEX Universe Bondreturn bonds 10 % iShares DEX Real - Return Bond (XRB) Canadian bonds 30 % iShares DEX Universe BondReturn Bond (XRB) Canadian bonds 30 % iShares DEX Universe Bond (XBB)

As stock investing generally requires a very detailed market study and is a very volatile investment in terms of return of investment, investors, especially the new investors out there are now turning to investing in bonds, as bond investments are safer than most of the other forms of investments and you need not constantly worry about prices going high or low.

While I think it's reasonable to lower your expectations for bond market returns and allow for higher volatility because of the level of rates, it seems to me that many of the fears about fixed income are overblown.

And if the market is wrong about the interest rate change then the bond could correct by 10 % and you'll just have to wait the full 10 years to earn your 2 % annual return.

Sustained low interest rates have made it more difficult for your clients to generate income, while more volatility in the equity markets has made them gun - shy about banking on predictable returns from stocks, bonds and other traditional investments.