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Q: Hello, I plan to rebalance my portfolio in the new year, increasing my bond component in my reg accounts. I already have Canadian individual bonds in my RSP, so I was looking at VGAB for diversification, but when I compare it to XBB, it underperformed XBB for every period in the last 5 years. What do you think of VGAB and should I just keep it simple and use XBB instead? Thanks
Asked by Martin on December 05, 2024
5i Research Answer:
VGAB is an international fund and XBB is Canada-only. VGAB's non-North American assets have...
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