Home Breadcrumb caret Investments Breadcrumb caret Market Insights Housing bubble won’t burst, say experts Advisor.ca is live-tweeting the Morningstar Investment Conference Canada. By Staff | June 5, 2013 | Last updated on June 5, 2013 1 min read Advisor.ca is live-tweeting the Morningstar Investment Conference Canada. This morning, panelists discussed Canada’s housing market and explained why you should overweight emerging markets. Here are some of our tweets: BMO’s Porter: Manufacturing will do well in 2013, with the auto sector performing well. It will benefit from upwards global trends #MIC2013 When questioned about commodity bear market, the panel agrees it will continue to be weighed down by demand distortion for a while #MIC2013 Consider the # of homeowners in China surged to 60% over the past few decades. We’re still recovering from the uptick in demand #MIC2013 Porter says he considers healthy global growth to be 3.5%, and forecasts we’ll reach that benchmark by 2014 #MIC2013 10 years ago, ppl said Canada’s housing bubble would burst. It didn’t happen then and won’t happen now #MIC2013 One of the market’s issues is how easily accessible info is. Ppl react to policy announcements globally and impacts performance #MIC2013 Emerging market risk has trended down, while developed market risk had surged. Many are overweighting EMs #MIC2013 Porter says markets aren’t that volatile compared to the extreme conditions we’ve endured. They’ve been smoother than expected #MIC2013 China’s focused on healthier growth. It’s upgrading infrastructure & increasing company spending #MIC2013 It’s enhancing urbanization But you need to watch reforms across the globe and monitor how they’re implemented, so you can manage exposure #MIC2013 Emerging markets have good long-term prospects “We favour regions w/t good population growth,” but still room 4 regions to backstep #MIC2013 Staff The staff of Advisor.ca have been covering news for financial advisors since 1998. Save Stroke 1 Print Group 8 Share LI logo