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Anxious clients struggle with changes 'hour to hour'

Paul Shelestowsky is a senior investment advisor at Meridian Credit Union in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. He’s been in the business close to 30 years — 23 of them at Meridian. Many of his clients are farmers in the region, along with business owners and older folks who’ve packed up their Toronto homes and downsized.

Like people across the country, they’re on edge. It feels as though their life savings are in play, at the whim of politicians in Washington and Ottawa. Local businesses are laying off staff. Shelestowsky’s retirees are white-knuckling it.

“They’re the most anxious right now,” he said. “They’re drawing on their savings.”

And they’re calling Shelestowsky, with questions about taking risk off the table.

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