Rethinking Safe Investments in 2026
A member posted a question in the AAII Allocation Strategies Community recently about boosting “safe money” returns and was met with many different answers. This led me to wonder:
For generations, safety in investing meant stability of principal. Certificates of deposit (CDs), Treasury bills and investment-grade bonds were the go-to safe havens. But decades of low interest rates and persistent inflation have rewritten the rules.
