Welcome to Making Money
with Ron Hiebert & Graham Hicks
OUR GOAL
is to provide you with financial information and investment strategies that are real world practical. This site is designed to act as a guide through the maze of promotional and self serving clutter out there and give clear, trustworthy and actionable information that will help you improve your financial situation.
OUR CONTENT CURRENTLY CONSISTS OF 2 AUDIO FEATURES:
MAKING MONEY MINUTE
Making Money Minute is Ron’s daily financial feature that is aired weekdays on the Alberta radio station 840 CFCW at 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. It provides a daily summary of major financial issues that effect you personally. These topics are later given more in depth analysis on our Making Money Show.
MAKING MONEY
This show is hosted by Graham Hicks and Ron Hiebert. Our wide ranging discussions include investing strategy, economic trends, expert interviews, and financial/tax/estate planning. As we produce and archive shows, the plan is to build a complete investment library with all the tools an investor needs to successfully navigate their way through the complex financial world we live in. Each episode is condensed down to 15 – 20 minutes for efficient listening.
YOUR HOSTS
RON HIEBERT
Ron was a portfolio manager for a major Canadian investment firm for 35 years. His main responsibility was to oversee a billion dollar stock and bond portfolio for his clients. He has taught investment classes at Grant McEwan University and the University of Alberta for two decades and hosted a weekly financial talk show called Making Money since 1989. He has written two investment books, “Making Money The Old Fashioned Way” and “Wealth Building” and an audio CD, “The Best of Making Money”. Ron has been a serial entrepreneur throughout his career focussing on the energy and real estate sectors. He is a voracious reader, loves to cook for family and friends and enjoys motorcycling and kayaking. When not at home, Ron is travelling the world with his wife Penny. His passion is education and he has been involved for many years building schools in Africa. Like Graham, he sees a general lack of basic financial skills among Canadians and wants to help improve that through this project.
GRAHAM HICKS
Graham Hicks enjoyed a 30-year career as a “town crier” columnist with the Edmonton Sun newspapaper, followed by a 10-year-stint as a once-a-week business columnist at the Sun.
He received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for community service, Sun Media’s J.D. Creighton Award for lifetime achievement, the Grant MacEwan College’s Distinguished Citizen Award and The Rotary Club of Edmonton 2008 Integrity Award. On the eve of Graham’s retirement from the Edmonton Sun, Edmonton Mayor Steve Mandel declared November 8, 2010 to be “Graham Hicks Day” in Alberta’s capital city. On Jan. 2, 2011, the Edmonton Sun published a Graham Hicks retirement special section.
Always interested in long-term investing, Graham co-authored his first financial book in 1993 with Ron Hiebert, entitled “Making Money The Old-Fashioned Way”. Our second financial book on cautious, conservative investing geared primarily to seniors, will be published in 2026.
In the financial world, Graham sees his primary purpose as helping Ron provide simple, intelligent and expert investing advice, thus allowing individuals to carefully prepare for, and then enjoy, a satisfying and comfortable retirement.
Graham and Maria have been married for almost 40 years, raised three daughters in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and now are busy with six grandchildren, three of whom are still in diapers. Interests include cooking, nature, history, gardening, golfing and canoeing.
In the community, Graham was the founder and spokesman for the annual Adopt-A-Teen” Christmas project, providing Christmas gifts for over 6,000 teens from low-income Edmonton families. He founded and ran The Edmonton Sun’s annual ATCO Christmas Charity Auction, last held in 2018.
In 2003 Hicks chaired the $2 million Edmonton Catholic Social Services “Sign of Hope” Campaign. He continues to volunteer with the social agency and with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, helping the poor.
