Introduction

To enjoy a comfortable financial future, investing is absolutely essential for most people. As the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic demonstrated, a seemingly stable economy can be quickly turned on its head, leaving those who haven’t prepared scrambling for income.

But with bonds and CDs yielding so low, some assets at astronomical valuations and the economy still recovering, what are the best investments for investors to make this year? One idea is to have a mix of safer investments and riskier, higher-return ones.