What’s A Girl To Do?

Essay. FAIR Canada (Canadian Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights) has made a big to-do about “FAIR Canada’s 5 Rules for Avoiding Investment Fraud” in which the bottom-line is only two rules: (1) only deal with “registered advisers” and (2) don’t deal with them, or anyone else, who promises guaranteed returns, possibly “enhanced” by new debt.

OK, So You Decide.

However, that doesn’t solve the problem or even address the problem. The alleged solution is a formula for poverty because they are suggesting that we should turn over our responsibility for safe investing to registered folks, in effect, to let them drive (our money) and we’ll be the passengers (like in a taxi, with a calculatable cost, hopefully less than all of our money).

In our view, a “registered adviser” needs to guarantee the capital, 100% capital safety, and to prove that they can do it, no matter what. If that is required for “registration”, then the number of “registered advisers” drops to zero. There aren’t any.

Nor is the requirement unreasonable. The insurance company “segregated funds” will provide the “capital guarantee” net of their fees, which are typically 2% to 3% per  year to the customer, and 7% to the salesperson funded by the company. However, in broad terms, the capital guarantees on “segregated funds” are bankrupting them, absent collateral business in the insurance business.

Moreover, the government provides Real Return Bonds (RRBs) that can and do guarantee a return above the rate of inflation. But, let’s face it, governments pay for their promises with other people’s money, some of which is ours.

The only company that guarantees the capital – 100% capital safety – and knows how to do it is The RiskWerk Company. But we will never be registered until the rest of the industry is prepared to meet that same burden.

This year’s capital markets have been near explosive because there is a lot of money looking for an investment return. But how much of that will be picked up by the “registered” investment advisers and the pension funds and be paid to their clients?

Not Much But They Like Us
Courtesy: Conde Nast

For more on what risk averse investing has done for us this year, please see our recent Posts on The S&P TSX “Hangdog” Market or The Wall Street Put or specialty markets such as The Dow Transports & Utilities or (B)(N) The Woods Are Burning, or for the real class action, La Dolce Vita – Let’s Do Prada! and It’s For You, Dear on the smartphone business.

And for more stocks at high prices, The World’s Most Talked About Stocks or Earnings Don’t Matter – NASDAQ 100.

Postscript

We are The RiskWerk Company and care not a jot for mutual funds, hedge funds, “alternative investments”, the “risk/reward equation” and every other unprovable artifact of investment lore. We have just one product

The Perpetual Bond™“
Alpha-smart with 100% Capital Safety and 100% Liquidity”
Guaranteed
With No Fees and No Loads on Capital

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Disclaimer

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