Comments on: The Next Hot Fund Manager http://canadiancouchpotato.com/2010/01/25/the-next-hot-fund-manager/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-next-hot-fund-manager Your guide to the investment strategy that will help you earn more and sleep better. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:01:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Canadian Couch Potato http://canadiancouchpotato.com/2010/01/25/the-next-hot-fund-manager/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Canadian Couch Potato Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:00:08 +0000 http://canadiancouchpotato.com/?p=474#comment-186 The VP of sales for a mutual fund company believes that timing the market is a good strategy? You may as well ask your barber if he thinks you need a haircut. Having just finished the CSC myself, I was surprised how little of the course material discusses indexing as a valid strategy. Meanwhile, there is a whole chapter on technical analysis, which even many stock pickers denounce as nonsense. And another whole chapter on segregated funds, which are almost always terrible investments. Pretty much every financial advisor starts with this course: no wonder investors are so poorly served by the industry. The VP of sales for a mutual fund company believes that timing the market is a good strategy? You may as well ask your barber if he thinks you need a haircut.

Having just finished the CSC myself, I was surprised how little of the course material discusses indexing as a valid strategy. Meanwhile, there is a whole chapter on technical analysis, which even many stock pickers denounce as nonsense. And another whole chapter on segregated funds, which are almost always terrible investments. Pretty much every financial advisor starts with this course: no wonder investors are so poorly served by the industry.

]]> By: moneyxyz http://canadiancouchpotato.com/2010/01/25/the-next-hot-fund-manager/comment-page-1/#comment-185 moneyxyz Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0000 http://canadiancouchpotato.com/?p=474#comment-185 The guy who is teaching my csc vol 2 prep course seems to think that you can time the market and he said he made so much money shorting nortel stock. He works in the industry for a mutual fund company as VP sales. However, I read the little book of common sense investing by john bogle and he convinced me that it's best to index. My whole RRSP is invested in low cost index funds. However, I'm wondering if maybe I had more time to analyse stocks, if I could have better performance than the index. Probably not. The guy who is teaching my csc vol 2 prep course seems to think that you can time the market and he said he made so much money shorting nortel stock. He works in the industry for a mutual fund company as VP sales. However, I read the little book of common sense investing by john bogle and he convinced me that it’s best to index. My whole RRSP is invested in low cost index funds. However, I’m wondering if maybe I had more time to analyse stocks, if I could have better performance than the index. Probably not.

]]> By: kyahgirl http://canadiancouchpotato.com/2010/01/25/the-next-hot-fund-manager/comment-page-1/#comment-184 kyahgirl Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:10:26 +0000 http://canadiancouchpotato.com/?p=474#comment-184 This is hilarious...thanks for the laugh. And I can just bet the fund managers are upset...the are in danger of being exposed :-) This is hilarious…thanks for the laugh.
And I can just bet the fund managers are upset…the are in danger of being exposed :-)

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