Ross Healy gives his analyts opinion of his top picks Barrick Gold and BCE on March 5, 2009

C. Ross Healy began his investment industry career more than three decades ago as a securities analyst for Midland Osler Securities. He was also co-founder of Sceptre Investment council, a leading Canadian money manager.

Healy went on to become Director of Research at Merrill Lynch Canada, and during this time provided support to Dr. Verne Atrill, the late theorist who decoded the mathematics underlying the Theory of Accounting Dynamics upon which the Strategic Analysis Corporation methodology is based. When Merrill Lynch ceased its Canadian business operations, Healy joined SAC as Chairman and CEO.

Healy is a past president of the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts, and served on the board of the Financial Analysts Federation (now the Association for Investment Management and Research) as Chair of the Financial Analysts Journal. He also served on the Financial Disclosure Advisory Board of the Ontario Securities Commission from 1983 to 1989, chairing the Investment Committee, and was a member of the Executive Committee of Trinity College, University of Toronto.

Healy has authored several articles for the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He was the author of the Talisman Fund in The Financial Post (now The National Post) for 11 years, during which time the fund consistently beat the S&P/TSX Composite and was the second best performing Canadian fund in its class.