Life insurance has turned out to be
a pretty safe investment considering what the market has done over the last decade.
That depends on who you ask; I personally believe a blue chip is a company that, among other things, is
a pretty safe investment because it has been around for a while and will continue to be around for a while just because most people can't envision it ever going away.
Not exact matches
To lessen your chances of losing money, your short - term
investments should be limited to
pretty safe options.
If your
investment horizon is longer than the fund's duration, then your principal is
pretty safe.
«Investors who rely on bond products to keep them
safe and provide a reasonable rate of return could be very disappointed for many years,» explains Miles Clyne, a portfolio manager with the Tycuda Group at MacDougall
Investment Counsel Inc. in Langley, B.C. Current low interest rates and the impact of rising rates in the future, are «foretelling a not - so -
pretty picture.»