This week I spoke to Tom Bradley, president of Steadyhand Investment Funds Inc., a Vancouver-based, mutual-fund group launched in April, 2007. He wanted to fill me in on what his funds were all about (I had inadvertently overlooked them in an article I did on low-fee funds awhile back).

Here is Part VII of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. To scroll through Parts II to VI, click on links at the bottom of each page.

The results of Cone's 2009 Consumer New Media Study include two points that I found to be remarkable:

Here is Part VI of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. To scroll through Parts II to V, click on links at the bottom of each page.

I just finished reading the Yvon Chouinard's book, Let My People Go Surfing. In terms of pure authenticity around corporate responsibility, what Chouinard has done at Patagonia is hard to beat. And he makes a solid business case for a business model that many would still consider unconventional. Here's what ...

The Ontario government is tabling its proposed HST legislation this week (tax to come into effect July 1). B.C. is also moving forward on its HST.

Just because you haven't heard much about the Harmonized Sales Tax over the last few weeks doesn't mean the Ontario government has stopped its plan to merge the PST and GST. Today, McGuinty's Liberals tabled the HST legislation. The Conservatives will no doubt put up a fight, but no matter ...

Here is Part V of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. To access follow-on parts, click on links at the bottom of the each page.

Here is Part IV of the Quotable Guide to Passive Investing. Part I is here. Then follow the links at the bottom of the page to access the rest of the parts.

We often hear references to October being a bad time to invest. After all, the crashes of 1929 and 1987 were in October.  In order to check this out we pulled Bloomberg data for the performance of the DOW during each month going back to 1925. When we took the ...