A 7% nominal return sounds great on paper until inflation and taxes slice off 3-4%. If your cash is sitting on the sidelines or your yield isn't beating CPI, your real purchasing power is going backward every single year. 🏃♂️💨 How are you shielding your portfolio from purchasing power decay over the long haul? 🏢 Pricing Power Equities – Companies with wide moats that force cost increases onto consumers. 🔁 DRIP Engine – Aggressive dividend growth and auto-reinvestment to out-compound CPI. 🛢️ Hard Assets & Energy – Real infrastructure, commodities, and energy pipelines. 🛡️ Short-Duration Yield – Rotating short-term debt and inflation-protected bonds as rates adjust.
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Catherine @ffcatherine · 2h
Beating inflation is the main reason I moved my $ from GICs to the stock market index funds .. Plus GICs the full % gain is added to your income vs many ETFs can have capital gains only taxed when the ETFs is sold (of course there’s the dividends… but still better tax rate than direct interest )
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