Investor’s Digest of Canada, MPL Communications Inc.
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Investors who follow seasonal trends know that the best-six- month strategy begins in late October or early   Read More

The Investment Reporter, MPL Communications Inc.
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We’ve added Hardwoods Distribution to our Key stocks. This ‘Higher Risk’ stock is a buy for long-term gains   Read More

The TaxLetter, MPL Communications Inc.
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Split pension income, save taxes

All’s fair in love… and taxes. At least, that’s the way the Canada Revenue Agency   Read More

The MoneyLetter, MPL Communications Inc.
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Industrials offer great leverage to an improving economy and will outperform in the months ahead

The market was recently jolted   Read More

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How long you invest for-what’s known in the jargon of the investment industry as your ‘time horizon’-is critical   Read More

Canadian Mutual Fund Adviser, MPL Communications Inc.
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You may be disappointed if you plunge into the U.S. markets now expecting near-term gains similar to   Read More

The Investment Reporter, 133 Richmond St. W., Toronto, ON, M5H 3M8

THE MARKET THIS MONTH: In October, stocks rise on average. But one risk is the gains stocks made earlier this   Read More

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Technology is already changing the way you are, and will be, doing your banking. Now, the latest   Read More

We put Barrick Gold on a hold in our April 26 issue of The Investment Reporter. This Key stock remains a hold for a long-term recovery in its share price   Read More

While acknowledging that markets remained “tough” for the first half of 2013 (ended June 28), international infrastructure firm Balfour Beatty plc (BBY-LON, 282.90p) confirmed that trading conditions “weren’t getting any   Read More

Paying capital-gains taxes may be an inevitable result of successful investing. But the longer you can delay the inevitable, the greater will be your ultimate success.

Sector funds offer aggressive investors   Read More

Those who follow seasonal investment trends will know that the “best six months” strategy begins in late October or early November.

Now that we’re about to enter into this favourable   Read More

Rising interest rates are a real risk in today’s bond market. But there’s a way to reduce your risk by choosing bonds, bond funds or bond ETFs with relatively low   Read More

T he big six Canadian banks have now all reported their third-quarter earnings and, generally speaking, they are doing very well indeed. This time, just to change things up a   Read More

BCE Inc., one of our Key stocks, acquired Astral Media, another of our Key stocks. We’ve replaced Astral Media on The Back Page with Cineplex Inc. It’s a buy for   Read More

Some of the biggest names in Quebec business lit up an investors
Powwow in Toronto in early June. So you might think it was tough focusing on a smaller Quebec outfit,   Read More

It is important to have the right type of income when you retire.

There are various types of investment income that are more tax-efficient before and after retirement. and corporate class   Read More

If investing isn’t the most contrary business you will ever know, it’s certainly the most humbling – regardless of expertise or reputation!

A year ago famed author and forecaster Harry   Read More

The Mutual Fund Planning Guide goes out each month to subscribers of the Canadian Mutual Fund Adviser. It forms the basis of our approach to investing in mutual funds: build   Read More

Warren Buffett remains bemused that, when people discover a hamburger on sale, this makes them happy, but when they see a stock on sale, this makes them upset. Well, right   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, are a form of alternative investment that offer you diversification. It’s tempting to call them American Diversification Receipts. They give you access to global stocks and industries   Read More

Most financial advisors will recommend that investors diversify for their own protection. What they neglect to mention, however, is that this advice is also for the protection of the advisor   Read More

Editor John Kaiser ranks Midas Gold Corp. (MAX-TSX, $0.95) “among the top advanced gold juniors in the current environment.” That environment, by the way, is one in which no one   Read More

Editor Peter Hodson and his research team have answered more than a few investor questions over time. Not too surprisingly, many of those questions tend to run along the same   Read More

Is there any doubt that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will – at some point – be approved by the U.S. government? “Absolutely none” says this advisory.

To begin with,   Read More

Editor Raymond DeVoe Jr. always feels a “twinge of nostalgia” when he watches the opening of the New York Stock Exchange on CNBC and hears the voice that says “welcome   Read More

Not that he wants to, ahem, rub it in or anything, but editor Patrick Cox feels obliged to remind all the “panicked merchants of Peak Oil” about how wrong they   Read More

Calling it a “wonderful illustration of an invest-to-grow story in process,” chief investment strategist David Dittman is more than a little pleased with second quarter numbers from AltaGas Ltd. (ALA-TSX,   Read More

Are we in the middle of a “veritable U.S. energy renaissance?” Editor Richard Stavros seems to think so. He cites all the cheap natural gas from the bountiful shale plays   Read More

Are shares of Pason Systems Inc. (PSI-TSX, $20.77) overpriced? It’s likely, says editor Marc Johnson. He’s downgrading the international oil services company to a “hold.” The shares have risen 2.3   Read More

With domestically-focused industries outperforming the overall market, portfolio editor Genia Turanova thinks U.S. consumers are starting to relax. Not only that, but they’re growing increasingly willing to open their wallets   Read More

For every industry, there’s a leader – even if that industry is the “unattended point of sales sector. Out in front of this particular market (think vending machines, service kiosks   Read More

Ask editor Stephen Leeb for a nearer-term market portrait. He’ll paint you a mostly sunny picture in which the landscape is dominated by “relatively” low resource prices – especially for   Read More

From time to time, this advisory offers tips on how to “boost your returns above the posted rates, by negotiating, or through bonuses for re-upping at the same institution, or   Read More

This advisory has an appropriately succinct overview of a company that specializes in simplifying complex manual business processes. Direct Insite Corp. (DIRI-OTCBB, $1.65), it informs us, “helps businesses to operate   Read More

At some point – it could be sooner, it could be later – the U.S. Federal Reserve will “pull the plug”
on its “economic-stimulus/quantitative-easing/bond-buyback” program. And when it does, “it
will be   Read More

“We are now,” says editor Ray Blanco, “in the early stages of a huge change in how we treat cancer.” He believes that “serious progress” is being made in the   Read More

“Stocks that soar 178 per cent in six months don’t come along every day,” notes editor Chloe Lutts Jensen. But soar Invivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV-OTCBB, $4.22) did, with a   Read More

This advisory is dropping American Express Co. (AXP-NYSE, $75.64) from its “buy” list. Yes, its shares are yelling “charge it!” (they’re up 29 per cent this year) and running ahead   Read More

None of the latest data on U.S. housing starts and retail sales suggest that America’s recovery is slamming the door closed. But there are doubts among some observers about the   Read More

Optical component manufacturer LightPath Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ-LPTH) has its eye on the prize of three growing markets: glass aspheres (i.e., laser tools and gun sights), specialty optics (such as scientific   Read More

The latest data on U.S. housing starts and retail sales have caused doubts among some observers about the strength of the American economic recovery. In June, housing starts declined 9.9   Read More

At times we also offer tips on how to boost your returns above the posted rates, by negotiating, or through bonuses for re-upping at the same institution, or by switching   Read More

The shares of Pason Systems (TSX-PSI) have risen by 2.3 per cent since April of this year. That’s likely because it’s overpriced. We now downgrade Pason to a hold.

Pason trades   Read More