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Uncertain outlook for star-studded Sprott Inc.
When Sprott Inc. went public last year, there was plenty of hoopla surrounding the firm with its star hedge fund managers - including Eric Sprott - and its ability to attract other top-performing peers.
Mutual fund investors still treading cautiously
FUNDS REPORTER Investors largely abandoned money market investments in May, instead throwing new cash mainly into long-term bond and balanced funds. Canada's fund industry attracted $939.2-million in net sales last month - up from an earlier estimate of $747-million, according to figures yesterday from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada.
Does index investing work in bonds too?
WHAT WE'RE UP TOCatching up with the fixed-income side of the index investing universe. As traditionally understood, indexing allows investors to buy into hundreds of different stock indexes through either index mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (index funds that trade like stocks). But it's also possible to apply index investing to bond indexes. The question is, should you?
