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Ivy Growth and Income Fund $20.21

IVY GROWTH AND INCOME FUND $20.21 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (Mackenzie Financial Corp., 150 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont. M5S 3B5. 1-800-387-0780; Web site: www.mackenziefinancial.com. Load fund — available from brokers) is a balanced fund, holding a mixture of stocks, bonds and cash. The fund has returned 5.7% annually for the 10 years. It lost 0.8% over the last year. The fund’s MER is 2.09%.

The fund’s top stock holdings are Shoppers Drug Mart, Manulife Financial, Enbridge, Canadian National Railway, McDonald’s Corporation, Thomson Reuters Corp., Toronto-Dominion Bank and Imperial Oil.

The $2.4 billion Ivy Growth & Income Fund holds 22% of its assets in bonds. Interest rates on bonds are now under 5% annually in Canada. That’s the total return that a bond can provide, from today until it matures. However, bonds leave investors at the mercy of inflation, which shrinks the purchasing power of all fixed-return investments. In fact, an upsurge in inflation could wipe out all returns on bonds, and some of their principal besides.

We see Ivy Growth and Income Fund as a hold.

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