Desjardins Group is offering its members a brand new investment product, Global Equity Guaranteed Investment. The product offers investors a secure way invest in carefully selected, widely recognized companies in Europe, Asia and the United States.

“As a rule, Canadians don’t make a lot of foreign investments. However, a diverse portfolio must contain non-local investments to boost potential return and control portfolio volatility, and that’s exactly what Global Equity Guaranteed Investment offers”, pointed out Bernard Fortin, business development director at Desjardins.

Eligible for RRSP and patronage dividends, Global Equity Guaranteed Investment will be available for purchase as of January 15 in the Desjardins cooperative network in Quebec and Ontario.

“In the Canadian financial engineering market, Desjardins is always a front runner when it comes to guaranteed capital structured products. It further strengthens its leadership role with the launch of Global Equity Guaranteed Investment, having designed an innovative calculation method – never before seen in Canada – that offers the investor an unlimited potential return for terms of three or five years, as well as guaranteeing the capital at maturity,” stated Fortin.

For a list of securities and their weights in the portfolio, please refer to the attached news release.