We are proud to feature Investors Group, our Inaugural Memory Makers Sponsor for our Awareness Dinner/Silent Auction 2010.

INVESTORS GROUP

“It’s when you focus outward that happiness comes in”. Bill Whitehead says that is one of the most important things he has learned in life. Bill is the Regional Director of the Investors Group Financial Services. He oversees 62 independent consultants working in Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury and Parry Sound. Those consultants provide investment, insurance, mortgage, and banking services.

In addition to providing financial services, Bill says the company is committed to improving the quality of life in every community in which it is located. It has a corporate commitment to donate one percent of its profits to charity. It has a strong volunteer ethic…one that is very apparent in Northern Ontario.

Bill says there is always a strong contingent of volunteers among employees—so much so, that recently the Sudbury office formed a volunteer committee, dedicated to co-ordinating its volunteers! And it’s no wonder. The Sudbury office of The Investors Group has been involved in many special events for organizations such as the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Easter Seals, The Sudbury Blueberry Festival, and The Dragon Boat Festival. The Sudbury Investors Group also hosted Craig Kielburger.  Almost a thousand clients of the Investors were invited to hear him speak about his work with Free the Children. That helped inspire Bill and his family to spend ten days last summer, building classrooms with an outreach program in Kenya.

Bill and his wife are both Sudbury natives. Although they lived in southern Ontario for a while after graduation, they always wanted to come home to raise their three children. Bill says they enjoy the northern lifestyle, and the outdoors. Living in Sudbury also allows him to help care for his mother who is living with Alzheimer’s disease. Bill says anyone involved in community development work always gets back much more than they give, in many different ways. That is one of the many reasons he feels The Investors Group was such a good career fit for him.

We are known as a caring company,” he says, “and that’s one of the many reasons I enjoy working with our dedicated people.”  For more than 80 years, Investors Group has been working in Canada. The Investors Group website points out the company’s pride in its efforts to help Canadians build long-term financial security. Investors Group says its products and services continually evolve, to respond to the changing needs of its clients.