Mackenzie
Monthly Income Portfolios
Investor Guide
What you need to know about
retirement income planning
Moving into retirement is a huge step. Switching from investing for retirement to drawing income from retirement savings can be a stressful time for many. When you’re living on income from investments, rather than employment income, you come across new challenges. These include:
If you’re already retired or approaching retirement, it’s important to understand the challenges that come with generating consistent income from your retirement fund. Mackenzie Monthly Income Portfolios can help you overcome those challenges.
Keeping up with inflation
Not knowing how long your savings will have to last
Having a limited amount of income sources
A volatile and uncertain investment landscape
Weathering market crashes
and sequence of returns risk
Market crashes can have a serious impact on retirees’ portfolios, particularly if you’re withdrawing funds to provide income. If your portfolio’s value falls sharply, it may not be able to withstand the same level of withdrawals. This is called sequence of returns risk and can be extremely problematic for retirees.
Investors who rely on their savings for retirement income and experience a market crash soon after retiring, could be faced with a tough choice. They could either see their savings dwindle or reduce their monthly income until markets recover. See our Investor Guide PDF for a detailed example of sequence of returns risk.
Avoiding sequence of returns risk
and providing predictable income
Mackenzie Monthly Income Portfolios are specifically designed for retired investors who:
There are three different Monthly Income Portfolios available, each with a slightly different risk profile, and capable of fitting into modern retirement income planning. They’re purposely designed to provide higher growth and cash flow potential than guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) and better protection against market crashes than traditional balanced funds:
Mackenzie Monthly Income Portfolios key benefits:
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They provide steady, predictable income, with a 4% fixed rate monthly distribution.
2
They use sophisticated options strategies to reduce the risk from severe market crashes.
3
They benefit from carefully managed growth, containing a mix of stocks, high yield bonds and floating rate loans.
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They’re managed by the Mackenzie Multi-Asset Strategies Team, whose members have experience at Canada’s largest and most sophisticated pension plans.
Are the Mackenzie
Monthly Income Portfolios right for you?
Talk to your advisor to learn more about how Mackenzie Monthly Income Portfolios could fit into
your retirement portfolio.
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The payment of distributions is not guaranteed and may fluctuate. The payment of distributions should not be confused with a fund’s performance, rate of return or yield. If distributions paid by the fund are greater than the performance of the fund, your original investment will shrink. Distributions paid as a result of capital gains realized by a fund, and income and dividends earned by a fund are taxable in your hands in the year they are paid. Your adjusted cost base will be reduced by the amount of any returns of capital. If your adjusted cost base goes below zero, you will have to pay capital gains tax on the amount below zero.
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Are concerned about suffering sharp portfolio losses.
Need to be able to draw income from their portfolio.
Require some growth but with limited risk.
Canadians are living longer, and the retiree demographic is booming. However, many retirees don’t have a company pension plan, and government pensions don’t come close to covering retirement expenses. As a result, more and more Canadians have to be responsible for their retirement income.
With no employment income to fall back on, and a potentially long retirement, this new retirement reality means that retirees are vulnerable to the ups and downs of the market.
Whenever there’s high inflation, which causes the value of the dollar to erode, retirees struggle to maintain their purchasing power. Given how much retirement has changed, shouldn’t your retirement income planning change, too?
Maximum drawdowns during previous market crashes
Market crashes happen, on average, every
6 years
Market crashes happen, on average, every six years. You therefore need retirement income planning that helps your portfolio weather the storms so that your retirement plans aren’t derailed, or your income reduced.
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The new retirement reality calls for new retirement income planning
Mackenzie Monthly Income Conservative Portfolio
Mackenzie Monthly Income Balanced Portfolio
Mackenzie Monthly Income Growth
Portfolio
65%
35%
40%
60%
15%
85%
Return Potential
Risk Potential
+
+
–
–
GICs
Traditional balanced funds
0
-21%
1957
-28%
1962
-22%
1966
-36%
1970
-48%
1974
-27%
1982
-34%
1987
-49%
2002
-57%
2009
-34%
2020
-25%
2022
9 months
to full
recovery
14 months
to full
recovery
7 months
to full
recovery
19 months
to full
recovery
67 months
to full
recovery
3 months
to full
recovery
20 months
to full
recovery
52 months
to full
recovery
45 months
to full
recovery
5 months
to full
recovery
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These asset allocations represent the Fund's strategic long term asset mix, howerver, they may change over time.
Equity
Bond
Months to full recovery
Source: Morningstar, based on S&P 500 price return in USD
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Portfolios Constructed for income
11
14
7
21
70
3
20
56
49
5
Months to full recovery
Return Potential
+
–
–
+
Risk Potential
GICs
Traditional balanced funds
65%
35%
Mackenzie Monthly Income Conservative Portfolio
40%
60%
Mackenzie Monthly Income Balanced Portfolio
15%
85%
Mackenzie Monthly Income Growth
Portfolio
These asset allocations represent the Fund's strategic long term asset mix, howerver, they may change over time.
Equity
Bond
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