PIE Funds and Portfolios

A unique portfolio service, giving you access to a wide variety of diversified, tax-efficient, index-based strategies

Click here to visit www.piefunds.ca

 
Engineering custom asset management solutions

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.  More ...

 
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK & MARKET FORECAST, September 2011
“Outlook uncertain after summer of discontent”
Investors may be forgiven for being confused through the past few weeks. And anxious. Welcome to the club. So are the managers of hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, brokers, and advisors for accounts large and small everywhere. And the advice, of course, is flying thick and fast – and contradictory. So what to do?  Read more
 
Market Commentary
New: Markets surge into the New Year ...
Recent: More worries bedevil investors
 
CORE PORTFOLIOS The Croft Core Model Portfolio Mandates
Details, fact sheets
CORPORATE CLASS PLATFORM A tax-efficient, discretionary asset management service
Manager Select Program  Pool
Calculator
Active Management Portfolio Program 
Active Portfolio Program 
MARKET MATCH PORTFOLIOS A set of passive, low-cost, user-friendly quality portfolios
Information, contact
GAInS PORTFOLIOS Global tactical asset allocation portfolios
Details, fact sheets
FINANCIAL PLANNING
Comprehensive financial planning services
Description, Portfolio Tools
 Free 
 Analysis
 
CUSTOM PORTFOLIO SERVICE Customized efficient portfolio solutions
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Financial Planning
* FP Newsletter
Corporate Class
Platform
Quarterly
Commentary
PORTFOLIO MATTERS
Markets stage third-quarter stealth rally as investors overcome anxieties
PORTFOLIO TOOLS
Portfolio Management Models/Simulations
CROFT COMMENTARY
Market, Quarterly
OTHER
Benchmark Articles, Books
  PIE Funds - A
  Active Mgmt Pools
More Info
  RealWorld Benchmarks
Details

Options Blog
MOST RECENT APPEARANCE: “MARKET CALL” MARCH 16, 2010 AT 1:00 PM
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Richard Croft’s
appearance on BNN’s Market Call, discussing options and ETFs
Click here to watch
financial advisor Doug Nelson’s
recent appearance on 
BNN’s Market Call, discussing
how you too can
“Master Your Retirement”
* Help for financials may
hold opportunities
* Fixed-income can increase returns and decrease risk
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Protect Your Nest Egg

Eric Kirzner and Richard Croft


Includes information on:

      
Master Your Retirement: How to fulfill
your dreams with peace of mind

Doug Nelson, MFA, CFP, CLU

Includes information on:

o Income Trusts
o Active Investing
o Indexing
o Hedge Funds
o Portfolio Benchmarks
o and more!
o The five important phases to retirement
o The 10 critical dos and don’ts
o The difference between income needs and lifestyle wants
o The difference between guaranteed and variable income sources
o How timing your retirement can influence success and failure
o How to get the most in government benefits all year long
o Prepare for the inevitable “roadblocks” that all retirees encounter
o Maximize the legacy you leave your heirs
o Achieve peace of mind and live the life you want to live