<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is probably the best advice you can find<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://www.sanfran.com/content_areas/home/view_printable.php?story_id=1507">http://www.sanfran.com/content_areas/home/view_printable.php?story_id=1507</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Doesn't have anything nice to say about mutual funds.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Dave</div><div><br><div><div>On 20-Feb-08, at 11:07 AM, Asaf Maruf wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I think i did not make my point clear. I maintain that for a person to venture into buying and selling stocks, one has to be very well prepared. There is too much risk involved.<br><br><br>Alternately, one can go with the less risky instruments like GIC's, mutual funds and other government securities. Not much preparation is required except for knowing your fund manager and details of the instrument.<br> <br>They can give a decent return of 10-15% on average.<br><br><br>Asaf<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 7:06 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY <<a href="mailto:clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org">clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">David Kreuter wrote:<br> > back to linux topics perhaps?<br> <br> </div>... he wrote, with a "winmail.dat" attachment :) The subject line is<br> marked "OT" for a reason.<br> --<br> Regards,<br> <br> Clifford Ilkay<br> Dinamis Corporation<br> 1419-3266 Yonge St.<br> Toronto, ON<br> Canada M4N 3P6<br> <br> <<a href="http://dinamis.com" target="_blank">http://dinamis.com</a>><br> +1 416-410-3326<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">--<br> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/</a><br> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <a href="http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." - Richard P. Feynman</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>