Every Friday, QV Investors distributes a market commentary that outlines various market events that happened throughout the week along with any market issues and/or changes affecting the Candadian Small Cap Fund.
The credit crisis has clearly evolved into a crisis of confidence. This is impacting the economy in a very real way as business and consumer spending has ground to a halt. This environment is stress testing business models to an extent we ...
Here we are, Halloween, one of my favourite times of the year. Ahhh, the tootsie rolls and the little munchkins dressed up as spooky ghosts and goblins is just the diversion most of us need right now. To top it off, the ...
Over the past year there have been extreme changes on so many fronts. In November of last year the front cover of India's national newspaper displayed a cartoon of an indestructible sacred cow in a superman costume celebrating the new found wealth ...
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On non-quarter-end months, QV Investors distributes a broad market commentary that discusses major market themes along with outlining the monthly peformance of all QV Investors pooled funds.
For equity investors, the months of September and October seemed like an eternity. Losses, year-to-date, were worse than even the "bears," like ourselves, predicted. One must now go back to the early 1970's and, even worse, the 1930's, to compare with other ...
If you glance at QV's Pooled Fund returns, at the bottom of the next page, you will see the month of August shows a positive glow. Briefly, we were happy.
Autumn has come early, frosty and fast to commodity prices. In the first half of the year, with the exception of March, every month of '08 had seen higher prices set by the Commodity Research Bureau's Index. Metals, oil, natural gas, minerals, ...
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Every quarter-end, QV Investors compiles an update that includes a general market essay along with individual pooled fund updates. This commentary package is also included within our private clients' Portfolio Performance Reports.
Over the past year, international equity markets recorded split results. Those stock markets with significant mineral and energy components - Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and Canada, rose. Those without minerals fell. Energy and mineral or hard asset companies now dominate the S&P/TSX ...
All right, who didn't read the small print? It would appear the answer
is just about everyone. The real answer is policy makers did not care.
At the end of the quarter, Washington finally announced the overhaul
of the rules governing its ...
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