If I Knew Then 4

My adventures in Mutual Funds have been mixed. I tried investing in Mutual Funds. With all the hype about Mutual Funds, I thought I should invest in them. After all they were managed by investment experts. They should do better than me that was just leaning. Turn out not to be true. The stocks I invested in did mostly better than the mutual funds.

On May 4, 1982 I invested in the Royal Bank's Equity Fund. I held it until 29 April 1997 which is 15 years. My total return was 12.59% per year. Over the same time period the TSX index showed an increase of 9.2% per year. So it would appear I did well with this.

I invested in Mackenzie Financial Corp's Industrial Growth Fund January 9, 1985. I held it until December 31, 1987, which is almost 3 years. My total return was 5.18% per year. Over the same time period the TSX index showed an increase of 10.2% per year. Here I got a positive return but it was lower than the market.

On January 30, 1992 I invested in Altamira's Equity Fund. I sold this on October 16, 1998. This is just over 6 years. My total return was 5.7% per year. Over the same time period the TSX index showed an increase of 7.5% per year. This was a positive return and only a few percentage points below the TSX.

On February 9, 1993 I invested in Altamira's Special Growth Fund. I did $100 investment every month until February 1997 when I reduced my monthly purchases is $75 per month. I stopped my monthly investments in December 1997. I sold this on October 7, 1998. So I held this fund for almost 6 years. My total return is a negative 0.2% per year. Over the same time period the TSX index showed an increase of 8.7% per year. This investment did quite poorly.

This is the fourth of a series of blogs called "If I knew now". In February of 2017 I started this series saying that If I Knew Then when I started investing what I know now, I would have only invested in Canadian Dividend Growth stocks. My first entry was about investing in US stocks in the blog If I Knew Then 2. In the next entry I talk about investing in international stocks under If I Knew Then 3.

On my other blog I wrote yesterday about McCoy Global Inc. (TSX-MCB, OTC-MCCRF)... learn more. Tomorrow, I will write about TFI International (TSX -TFII, OTC-TFIFF)... learn more on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 around 5 pm.

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