Diversity is the key to limiting trust woes
16th Nov 2006, 11:11 GMT
A week after the great Canadian income trust bust, it's apparent that the wounds sustained by lots of investors can be classified as non-life-threatening.Financial journalists like me have been bombarded by e-mails in recent days from livid investors who say they have lost $30,000, $50,000 or even $100,000 as a result of the Conservative government's trust crackdown. It's hard to know how to take these numbers, in part because of a problem that many investors have with measuring losses.
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