Buy for Large-cap Holdings

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HARBOUR FUND $21.66 (CWA Rating: Conservative)(C.I. Mutual Funds, 151 Yonge St., 7th Floor, Toronto, ON M5C 2W7. 1-800-268-9374; Web site: www.cifunds.com. Load fund — available from brokers) invests in only 25 to 40 high-quality mostly Canadian stocks, and it may hold stocks for four or five years to realize their value. The $5.2 billion Harbour Fund’s top holdings include Royal Bank, CN Railway, Goldcorp Inc., Suncor Energy, Bank of Nova Scotia, General Electric, EnCana Corp., Petro-Canada, Rio Tinto, TD Bank and BHP Billiton. The Harbour Fund gained 5.5% over the last year. Its MER is 2.33%. Harbour Fund holds about 16% of its total assets in cash. We don’t like the market timing aspect of holding a high cash balance, but overall we like the fund. Harbour Fund is still a buy. buy…