A year after the fall, your portfolio should be looking a lot healthier, now that stocks have soared more than 40% in just the past six months. But this is unlikely to last.
While there is no certainty on how equities will behave heading forward, chances are good that Wall Street's scorching pace will shortly slow right down. Remember that in three of the past four market recoveries since 1982, equity gains slowed to a single-digit pace in the second year of the rally, after the initial exhilaration settled, CIG research showed.
Here are a few options CIG recomends looking at in the near term:
U.S. blue-chip stocks
In this rally, high-quality large-cap stocks have been left behind. This indicates that these stocks trading at much cheaper levels than are small stocks.
Blue chips in a slow-growth economy maintain the ability to yeild constant revenues, according to CIG sources.
Dividend-paying foreign stocks
Overseas equities have been really bullish of late, with the MSCI World Ex-U.S. index up more than 17%. Many analysts believe returns from abroad, predominantly from the developing markets, will continue to outpace domestic stocks.
High-quality corporate bonds
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