Our history
Sentry Select has been at the forefront of developing innovative products since 1997. But in fact, the company is built on a solid foundation established many years earlier.
Founder John F. Driscoll is a widely respected pioneer in the oil and gas, and royalty trust sectors. The successful enterprises he launched in the 1980s gave Canadian investors many innovations including one of Canada's first oil and gas royalty trusts and the first managed portfolio providing a direct interest in oil and natural gas production.
Sentry Select: Producing a series of industry firsts
Our growth can be attributed to a series of "firsts" that have influenced the varying ways people think about the components of a successful portfolio.
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1997 |
Introduces Canada’s first professionally managed diversified portfolio of income trusts |
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1997 |
Manages the company's first flow-through limited partnership |
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2001 |
Introduces the first REIT mutual fund |
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2002 |
Launches the first income trust to focus on business trusts |
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2003 |
Introduces a new asset class to Canadians: the U.S. mortgage-backed security |
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2004 |
Launches the company's first principal-protected notes, with returns based on North American blue-chip stocks and Canada's income trust market |
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2005 |
Introduces the commodities expertise of Jim Rogers through Sentry Select Commodities Income Trust |
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2005 |
Launches the first Canadian mutual fund to deliver growth and income from small-cap income trusts |
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2006 |
Introduces Oil Sands and Energy Mega-Projects Trust – a closed-end investment trust designed to invest exclusively in the Canadian Oil Sands and energy mega-projects |
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