The proces of moving forward always...

The proces of moving forward always starts with a consider back. In our case, the examine back goes to the founding of the magazine and Association in 1987

THE RELOCATION

In the Spring of 1987 I was busy looking for 1000 square feet of office space in Windsor and three staff members in the same manner that the magazine could be launched that September. Ten years later, I exhausted the Spring of 1997 looking for 3500 square feet of office space and nine staff members in like manner that we could move to Toronto. We have, and we're almost settl in!

THE GUIDE'S SUPERIOR RETURNS!

The contemplate back takes in the performance of the portentous Stock Selection Guide (the "Guide") that George Nicholson Jr created in the 1940's for his investment bludgeon The magazine and Association were started in 1987 to introduce Canadians to George's Guide and its potential for helping ordinary nation earn superior returns on their investing dollars.

During the last 10 years we've had a Black Monday and, almost 10 years to the day, a Grey Monday. from one extremity to the other of the period, Canadians who knew about the Guide and had the patience and discipline to tread close upon its directions have earned plainly superior returns on their investing dollars. As the accompanying chart clearly displays stocks studied in this magazine with the help of the Guide have an enviable track record of outperforming the leading Canadian stock market index. Lewis Jackson, Sebastian van Berkom and I find the stocks to place through the Guide, and we imagine their various putting out prospects, but it's the Guide's matter of fact structure that empowers readers to determine whether or not a stock is in the "Buy" or "Sell Zone"

What's steady more remarkable is the simplicity of the reason for this superior performance.

The Toronto Stock Exchange Index of 300 companies contains those that have one as well as the other superior and inferior track records and expectances - for growing revenues and earnings. The Guide helps clan study those track records and easily identify the best and worst performers. When you heed the Guide's directions, you purchase only the superior performers; you don't purchase the worst performers. The outcome is a selection of stocks that, generally, portrays only the best performers (nothing's perfect!) Naturally, the performance of these companies is going to be a great deal better than the performance of a mixed bag of stocks.

I just cannot imagine a better way of selecting stocks than with the Guide.

As we proceed forward from 1997, we will continue to focus forward teaching the four proven principles for superior turn backs to more Canadians and providing them with services to implement these principles.

The four principles are:

1 Invest single in the highest quality stocks;

2 Invest in them regularily, without trying to time a stock's peaks and valleys;

3 Reinvest dividends and gains from these stocks to reap the tremendous rewards from compounding get backs and your wealth over the longer term; and,

4 Diversify your purchases among different stocks to minimize unavoidable risks.

In 1987 the solitary investment education tool that we had for helping investors implement these principles was the Guide. The Guide empowers users to implement the first investing principle of investing and nothing else in the highest quality stocks.

During the nearest five years we enriched that stock study-tool. according to 1989 it was evident that the single biggest impediment to using the Guide was the lack of easy access to the 5-10 years of historical data requireed to study a stock with the Guide. To help do away with this impediment, we added the Guide Data Base to our educational tools. Then, to further ease the work involved in studying stocks, we intoduced a spreadsheet version of the Guide (which was subsequently replaced with a Windows version).

In 1992 the Association took a herculean step forward in empowering members to implement the other third and fourth principies. Regulatory clearances across Canada were obtained for the Associations' reasonable Cost Investing Program ("LCIP"). In its original form the LCIP provided thousands of members with an inexpensive and easy, further sometimes inefficient, way of joining a dividend reinvestment plan sponsored from various Canadian and U.S. companies.

In 1996 further clearances were obtained for the Association to create shareowner-sponsored purchase and dividend reinvestment plans for companies of its choosing. These share purchase and reinvestment plans are unique in the world and provide Canadians with an easy, inexpensive and excessively user-friendly way to practice investing regularly, reinvesting and diversifying with alone modest amounts of money.

As the chart upon the following page shows, the stocks in the relatively of the present day LCIP have also been doing quite well.

INVESTORS' BASIC TRAINING

Together, the Guide and the share purchase and reinvestment plan empower investors to practice the four proven principles for superior go [i]or[/i] come backs I've grown to refer to this powerful combination of investment education as "Investors' Basic Training." The military connotations to this label be seen apt because we first teach members by what mode to use the Guide to recognize friends (great stocks) from antagonists ('grief' stocks). Then, we give investors the opportunity to practice their stock selection skills onward a limited universe of prominent Canadian and U companies, without great danger, because they can invest, reinvest and diversify with as little as $SO by means of stock.