Blog: Cutting Through the Noise
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Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs)
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on January 5, 2009
Starting this year, a new savings vehicle will be available to all eligible Canadians who are at least 18 years old. Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) will enable individuals to invest money in a tax-free structure throughout their lifetimes. Contributions to TFSAs ...Read More
Readers' Choice - Top Steadyhand Blog Postings of 2008
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 30, 2008
As 2008 comes to an end (thank god!), we’d like to thank all of the loyal readers of our blog. We hope you’ve enjoyed our thoughts, opinions, commentaries, criticisms, musings and satires on investing and the industry that we call ...Read More
How do You Like Them Apples
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 22, 2008
There was an interesting article in the New York Times last week on Wall Street bonuses – a topic that is enough to make many investors sick, given the sad state of the financial industry. Putting aside the debate on ...Read More
They Say That Laughter is the Best Medicine
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 13, 2008
A little Saturday humour to perk you up in these troubling times. The market seems to keep dropping and dropping Because those damn Yankees couldn’t stop shopping Through their homes they’ve borrowed a ton of dough Now they’ve got no ...Read More
Corporate Bonds Assuming Worse than the Worst
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 12, 2008
This posting is for the bond geeks in the crowd. The manager of our Income Fund, Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management, recently did the following analysis on corporate bonds. If you passively buy a portfolio of 5-yr U.S. investment ...Read More
Year-end Distributions
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 11, 2008
A quick reminder that with the exception of the Savings Fund, the year-end distributions of all our funds will be calculated on December 15th and paid on December 16th . The distribution for the Savings Fund will be calculated on ...Read More
A Lousy Destination
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 10, 2008
The latest take on principal protected products comes in the form of life cycle funds with capital guarantees. For those unfamiliar with life cycle funds, they are simply packaged products that have a target end date and shift the asset ...Read More
Weak Markets Needn't be all That Taxing
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 4, 2008
We all love to hate taxes. Especially when it comes to our investments. This explains why some investors are now busy harvesting losses to offset any prior capital gains. It also explains the growing number of investment products on the ...Read More
Fund Updates
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 3, 2008
Suffice to say, we’ve been watching our funds quite closely these days. We want to make sure that our managers are doing what they do best and are sticking to their investment disciplines. Following recent calls with the managers of ...Read More
A Bigg Opportunity?
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on December 2, 2008
Aside from having one of the great names in the business, Barton Biggs is a renowned hedge fund manager and author of the popular book Hedgehogging . Biggs is a great thinker and investor, and in the words of David ...Read More
Is Your Fund Company Betraying Trust?
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on November 27, 2008
I recently finished reading Louis Lowenstein’s latest critique of the mutual fund industry, The Investor’s Dilemma: How Mutual Funds are Betraying your Trust and What to do About it . The book is a great read for investors seeking an ...Read More
Co-investment
Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on November 10, 2008
Co-investment is arguably the greatest form of alignment between fund manager and investor. When a manager has their own wealth invested alongside that of their clients, you can be assured that you’re getting the full benefit of the manager’s skills, ...Read More
