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Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on May 8, 2008
The Globe and Mail published a report on investment blogs in Tuesday’s paper, where a number of their columnists identified some of their favorite blogs. If you’re a fan of our blog, you may want to check out a few ...Read More
A Belated Response to an Income Investor
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on May 6, 2008
Our blog on March 17th ( In Need of a Steady Hand ) generated a large number of hits, which given the investing environment at the time, is not surprising. The main message in the posting was that investors shouldn’t ...Read More
Get a Reality Check Folks: Those Low-risk Big Yields are History
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on May 6, 2008
The Globe and Mail, Report on Business Published May 3, 2008 Where were you in August of '82? I will always remember. I was between my years at Western in what is now the Ivey School of Business and was ...Read More
Irrational Nervousness = Fertile Soil
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on May 1, 2008
The managers of our funds report to us formally once every quarter. In the Income Fund report from Connor, Clark & Lunn, there was a chart that is a great indication of what the capital markets are going through. It ...Read More
An Intrinsically Attractive and Flexible Vehicle
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on April 25, 2008
Jonathan Chevreau’s article in Wednesday’s Financial Post highlights the latest book that bashes the mutual fund industry, The Investor’s Dilemma: How Mutual Funds are Betraying Your Trust and What to do About it , written by Louis Lowenstein. It’s books ...Read More
The Increasing Complexity - and Masked Risks - of Wealth Management
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on April 21, 2008
The Globe and Mail, Report on Business. Published April 19, 2008 Purdy, what were you thinking? Didn't you know how complex and convoluted investment products have become? Didn't you know this would become a hornet's nest with many different interests ...Read More
Steadyhand Wins Coveted Lippy Awards
Excerpt from Neil Jensen's blog on April 16, 2008
Vancouver, April 16, 2008 - Steadyhand Investment Funds is proud to announce that they are the recipient of two Lippy Awards. The prestigious awards are presented for excellence in the fields of mutual fund performance and marketing. The firm is particularly ...Read More
Podcast: First Quarter Review
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on April 15, 2008
In this podcast, we review the first quarter of 2008 and touch on some highlights from our Quarterly Report.Read More
Fund Fees Coming Down; Cost of Investing Going Up
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on April 8, 2008
Last Saturday (April 5th), Globe and Mail columnist Rob Carrick wrote a piece ( Fund Fees that Have Fallen the Most ) featuring mutual funds where the management expense ratio is falling. He published a list of the ‘Top 30 MER decliners’ (click ...Read More
Odds Can be Stacked in Your Favour Buying Bank Stocks for the Long Term
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on April 7, 2008
The Globe and Mail, Report on Business Published April 5, 2008 A couple of times in recent months I've used the banks as a framework for talking about investing and the buy side of the street. I'm back at it. ...Read More
"You Like Me. You Really Like Me!"
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on April 4, 2008
Who can forget Sally Field’s acceptance speech at the Oscars in 1985? The Canadian mutual industry has taken a page from Sally’s delivery. As Jonathan Chevreau points out in his blog today, the Lipper annual awards gala held in Toronto ...Read More
One Year Performance for the Steadyhand Funds
Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on April 2, 2008
Oh boy, we finally get to release our investment returns . The markets having been so...well...interesting. We’ve been busting to get the numbers out. You may remember that until we renewed our prospectus, we weren’t allowed to provide fund returns ...Read More
