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PIE Funds and Portfolios
A unique portfolio service, giving you access to a wide variety of diversified, tax-efficient, index-based strategies
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R. N. Croft Financial
Group Inc. is a boutique portfolio management
company, providing fully customized discretionary asset management to
discriminating investors.
Our investment approach combines low cost tax-efficient indexed
investment strategies, with targeted active management, and sophisticated
options techniques to maximize client returns at any risk level.
Our portfolio processes are unique, flexible and comprehensive.
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ECONOMIC OUTLOOK & MARKET FORECAST 2010 |
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"The year of recovery”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, is these days no longer seen chomping on oversize cigars or jumping out of those oversize vehicles called Hummers. That’s because a) California is bankrupt (again), b) cigars, being associated with “fat cat” bankers, are politically incorrect, and c) Hummer, a brand of “civilianized” military vehicles that General Motors Corp. acquired in 1999, has been purchased by Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co., a Chinese company. In a way, however, poor Arnie’s travails encapsulate the economic outlook for the entire industrialized world for 2010: governments’ extreme fiscal problems; a not-yet-recovered bank sector taking the blows of political populism; and the growing strength of emerging economies.
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PORTFOLIO MATTERS, 4th Quarter
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“Range-bound fourth quarter caps year of gains”
In its semi-annual Financial System Review released in early December, the Bank of Canada said, “While indicators point in different directions, various measures, such as forward price-earnings ratios, suggest that equity prices may have increased more than warranted in the context of an expected slow recovery.” The Bank’s musings about the market indicates a level of concern about the potential for asset bubbles that it hadn’t shown in its communications over the previous year, most of which dealt with systemic liquidity and bank credit issues.
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CROFT FINANCIAL
PLANNING, November 2009 |
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“Thoughts on year-end planning”
Every year around this time, you’ll receive reminders from your advisors, brokers, and financial planners that it’s time to consider a review of your financial plan, your taxes, and your investments before year-end. We’re no exception. It’s an important and useful practice, because it gives you a snapshot of your current situation and allows you to measure investment performance, take advantage of all possible tax breaks for 2009, and assess your progress towards your financial goals.
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