Investing and finance statements: 4-12-2010 “With inflation and interest rates low and on the rise as well as dividend yields most likely investors will not see investment returns that they have grown accustomed to over the past 20 years, at least not until valuations revert to or beyond their mean. This is going to make it difficult for retiring investors to buy and hold stocks for the “long term” as the long term is most likely longer than their current life span.
Therefore, capital preservation will still be key for the decade at least while generating total returns in the form of stock dividends and interest from bonds as well as returns from non?traditional asset classes will define the difference from investing success and failure.
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