Blog: Cutting Through the Noise

Readers' Choice - Top Blog Postings of 2012

Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on January 3, 2013

Turns out the world didn’t end in 2012. A good thing, really, as Tom and I had a lot to write about. With over 120 posts, our updates, explanations, advice, observations, opinions, musings, rants and ramblings were well received, despite the odd scathing...

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Readers' Choice - Top Steadyhand Blog Postings of 2011

Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on January 4, 2012

Another year, another 120 blog postings. We had some thoughtful, informative, helpful, useless, controversial and scathing posts last year, based on the emails and comments we received. Below is a list of our most popular posts in 2011, as...

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Sound Off

Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on July 20, 2011

At Steadyhand, we think we’ve got the best business model and investment philosophy around. We offer investors access to talented and experienced investment managers (who are typically only available to the ultra-wealthy) and straight advice. We invest alongside our clients, charge low fees and provide timely &...

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Trends and Truthdom - Running Out of Oil?

Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on December 3, 2010

Is it a long-term trend or an investment truth? In my last Globe and Mail column (Much-maligned Greenback is Looking Increasingly Cheap), I held this question up to a number of economic factors - the declining supply of oil, China’s growth, Japan’s...

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A Blue Streak on the Greenback

Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on December 1, 2010

Here are a few quotes from the comments posted on the Globe and Mail's website following my column on the U.S. dollar: “... with a spendthrift administration and Helicopter Ben clearly willing to throw as much increasingly worthless paper as is...

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A Latter-Day Charles Dickens?

Excerpt from Scott Ronalds's blog on October 29, 2009

In a recent article written about Steadyhand titled "Mischievous Strangers and a Steadyhand", Karin Mizgala draws a connection between Tom Bradley and Charles Dickens. Very flattering. Especially when compared to some of the other comparisons...

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'It Will Sell': Feedback from the Trenches

Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on April 8, 2009

My last posting on packaged investment products generated a lot of feedback. There were some great comments posted on the blog, but I received many more emails from readers of the Saturday Globe and Mail. Below are snippets from some of the emails...

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In the Long Term, We're all Dead

Excerpt from Tom Bradley's blog on February 16, 2009

That’s how one reader felt about my last Globe and Mail column ( Focusing Too Much on the Short Term Can Lead to a Short Career ).  I stand by what I wrote about long-term thinking, but in response to that ...

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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 ...

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