«National Post» Smart Funds 2000

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian Studies at
Concordia University and an avid outdoor recreationist. She is also the
author of The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women’s Lives, Kurlek, and
Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Hom

The sixth edition of the annual National Post mutual fund guide profiles
the 50 top fund families and analyzes 100 “smart funds.” The
uniqueness of this edition stems from worries about computer problems at
the turn of the year 2000—notably, the dreaded Y2K bug. With this
crisis come and gone, small parts of the edition are dated.

Conservative coverage includes the so-called segregated funds of
several major life insurance companies, which provide some guarantees
against loss. These include London Life, Canada Life, Great-West Life,
Standard Life, and ManuLife Financial.

Jonathan Chevreau is personal finance columnist for the National Post
and author of Krash!: How Y2K Could Sink the Stock Market and What
Canadians Can Do About It (1999). Stephen Kangas is vice-president of
External Funds Research and Marketing with Canada Trust. Susan Heinrich
is the mutual funds reporter at the National Post.

For investors with a special interest in Canadian mutuals, this series
may be unique. The new edition includes 100-percent-RRSP-eligible
foreign clone funds. The format has an assessment of risk, strengths and
weaknesses, and asset allocation for each mutual. It all adds up to a
solidly useful handbook.