One Percent? For Real? Insights from Modern Growth Theory about Future Investment Returns

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Article Title:One Percent? For Real? Insights from Modern Growth Theory about Future Investment Returns
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/one-percent-real-insights-modern-growth-theory-about-future-investment-returns/
Published Date:October 7, 2015
Accessed Date:February 12, 2025

Pension fund savers face a future of lower investment returns, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “One Percent? For Real? Insights from Modern Growth Theory about Future Investment Returns,” authors Steve Ambler and Craig Alexander project a 1 percent rate of real return for risk free investments like Treasury bills, forming an anchor for the returns on other financial assets, including bonds and equities.  

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