Steadhand February 2012
Newsletter


Five Keys to Staying on the Long-term Track
It's hard being a committed, consistent long-term investor. Many factors can veer you off track, from a change in life circumstance to the promise of the cool new products that are focused on what's popular at the time. Sticking to a plan can be done, however, with a few tips. Here are five. 
Read More




Where to From Here? Our client presentations continue this month in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Details here

News

RRSPs / TFSAs
Only 28 days left! February 29th is the last day to make an RRSP contribution for the 2011 tax year. The maximum contribution limit for 2011 is the lesser of $22,450 or 18% of your previous year's earned income. 

Eligible investors also have the ability to contribute another $5,000 to a Tax Free Savings Account this year (or up to $20,000 if you've never contributed to a TFSA). Give us a call (1-888-888-3147) if you want to discuss the best option for you.   

Events

How is Your Portfolio Doing?
We've updated our report on assessing investment performance. All the market returns have been updated to December 31, 2011, and we've made a few small refinements. We've also updated our supplementary report that uses the framework to assess the performance of our hypothetical Balanced Income Portfolio (see links below).

How is Your Portfolio Doing? 

Balanced Income Portfolio (Hypothetical)

Blog Highlights

ETF Sales – Underwhelming and Disappointing
Some context on the 2011 sales numbers for ETFs
Read More

First Rant of 2012: RRSP Transfers
Sounding off on an industry practice that's totally unacceptable.
Read More

Podcast: 2011 in Review
Tom and Scott review the year that was.
Listen Here
This email appeared in your inbox because you subscribed to receive our monthly newsletter on steadyhand.com.
This monthly update is not part of our blog, which you can also subscribe to, and which has a much greater
frequency of distribution. If you wish to unsubscribe to future monthly updates, we won't be offended.

Steadyhand Investment Funds Inc | T: 1.888.888.3147