In light of the Bank of Canada’s six interest rate hikes this year, homeowners with a mortgage loan should brace themselves for higher rates at renewal over the next five years. And according to a recent Leger survey conducted on behalf of RATESDOTCA and BNN Bloomberg, 53% of homeowners are already feeling concerned about an increase in payments when their mortgages come up for renewal. While 52% of homeowners have a plan in place to meet those increased payments, half don’t consider shopping the market as part of that plan. In fact, 51% say they don’t plan to change lenders upon renewal, and 9% said they weren’t even aware that switching lenders was possible.https://static.rates.ca/images/BNN_x_RATESDOTCA_Concern_over_mortgage_renewal.width-800.png" width="800">

Index Time Series for iShares U.S. Fixed Income Balanced Risk Factor ETF. The frequency of the observation is daily. Moving average series are also typically included. The underlying index measures the performance of the corporate and mortgage portion of the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index while targeting an equal allocation between interest rate and credit spread risk. The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the component securities of the underlying index and TBA transactions that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the component securities of the underlying index.