As the year winds down and markets flirt with new highs, it’s a good time to review your portfolio and make sure its asset allocation is suitable for your needs.
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Canadian energy stocks have been performing well of late. However, energy stock Veresen Inc. has been delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange after it was taken over by its peer,   Read More

‘Save your Confederate money, boys. The south will rise again.’ You may recall the lyrics about ‘Confederate’ dollars. They never did rise again. But the Yankee dollar? That’s another story.   Read More

A subsidiary of Key stock Telus Corp. has agreed to acquire an American provider of digital information technology and software services. This has little impact on Telus. It remains a   Read More

Scotia Canadian Dividend has been a relatively strong performer compared to its peers in the Canadian dividend and equity-income mutual fund category. It’s a fund that will fit with an   Read More

Many financial analysts will argue that medical marijuana producers are bargain stocks today. But one such bargain stock that Mackie Research analyst Greg McLeish recommends is a bargain that he   Read More

The TaxLetter contributing editor Samantha Prasad, LL.B, offers a number of ideas to help you minimize the tax impact on your will so you can leave as much of your   Read More

American Depositary Receipts, or ADRs, give you benefits. One is diversification. It’s tempting to call ADRs American ‘Diversification’ Receipts. They give you industries that Canada lacks or has in short   Read More

Since early June, two of Canada’s premier seafood processing companies have suffered from downward stock price momentum. High Liner Foods suffered through an expensive product recall. Clearwater Seafoods may have   Read More

Investor’s Digest contributor, Keith Richards of ValueTrend, shows investors an investment strategy known as the Elliott Wave Theory. He says the wave we experienced during 2017 is unprecedented and unusual.   Read More

Where can you buy a basket of stocks at a discount and get a 6.1 per cent dividend yield paid to you in monthly installments? The closed-end Blue Ribbon Income   Read More

US blue chip stock IBM’s shares have jumped since it reported better-than-expected third-quarter results. Even so, it should do better. We continue to rate the company’s shares a buy for   Read More

Blue chip stock Canadian National Railway Company is expanding and improving its infrastructure for global trade. The amount of cargo the company ships is expected by financial analyst Benoit Poirier   Read More

‘Laissez les bon temps rouler.’ And the Cajun French certainly know how to do that. It’s that ability to spend and celebrate, no matter what hardships or geopolitical tensions exist,   Read More

It’s said that gold comes out of dark underground mines only to disappear into dark bank vaults. When we publish our gold stock survey, we do outline the yellow metal’s   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for investors whose interest is more interest,   publishes its list of recommended bonds and preferred shares. This month the Money Reporter names two   Read More

Electric vehicle adoption is pushing up demand for rare earth elements (REEs), according to contributor Mike Kachanovsky. As of now, he says, China controls most of the global supply. However,   Read More

Here are two Canadian metals and mining stocks that we rate ‘buy’. One is a recovery play based on the entrepreneurial skills of its 37.5-per-cent owner and its current price   Read More

Vanguard’s Dividend Appreciation Index Fund gives you a diversified portfolio of stocks that have raised their dividends for at least 10 years in a row. It should go up with   Read More

There is no shortage of ways to calculate the yield on a preferred share. When do you go by which one?
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Looking out for bargain gold mining stocks? The mining industry as a whole has worked diligently to keep costs minimal and valuations high. Even so, more than a few gold   Read More

At some point you may have been asked if you’re agreeable to being named an executor of an estate. You may have forgotten all about it until a long-lost cousin   Read More

Benjamin Graham was the father of fundamental security analysis. His value-based stock-picking method has strong points—and weak points.
Benjamin Graham believes defensive investors should stick with large, prominent companies that are   Read More

Canada’s big five banks dominate the investing public’s attention when it comes to choosing financial stocks. But the next tier often offers interesting investing opportunities based on regional factors that   Read More

Seniors housing and business software technology may make for an odd couple on anybody’s ‘best of anything’ list. But chartered financial analyst Christine Poole sees money to be made from   Read More

In spite of a large body of evidence that investing in equities produces superior long-term results than does investing in any other class of assets such as bond, money-market securities   Read More

Blue-chip consumer goods stock Metro Inc. has agreed to acquire drugstore chain Jean Coutu Group. We think that Metro will profit from this transaction. It remains a buy. Coutu’s shares   Read More

VersaPay is a financial technology (fintech) stock that provides clients with cloud-based accounts receivable automation software called ARC. ARC currently has over 100 suppliers signed on the platform, more than   Read More

Stock market speculators should continue to work in Canadian oil and gas stocks and precious metals stocks. Gold, silver, oil and natural gas are all in long-term up trends right   Read More

Transcontinental Inc. is expected to earn more in the year to October 31. Its earnings are expected to slip a bit next year and the year after that. But as   Read More

If you want just one Canadian equity mutual fund, let it be Mawer Canadian Equity. The fund has one of the lowest management expense ratios in its category, giving you   Read More

Top Canadian stocks like financial stocks and oil and gas stocks are doing very well right now. Rising interest rates are boosting the former, while infrastructure investment has created greater   Read More

Canada’s two largest bank stocks, Royal and T-D, continue to rack up impressive earnings-per-share (eps) growth. Both of these blue chip financial stocks are rated buy for growth and income.
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BRP Inc. was founded in 1942 as L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée (Bombardier Snow Car Limited) by Joseph-Armand Bombardier. It was spun off by Bombardier in 2003. Canada has fairly few large   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for income-oriented investors, publishes its list of 25 recommended common stocks and 16 recommended mutual equity funds.
What to do about common stocks now
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Drivers of Canadian growth today (real estate and consumer debt) may be tomorrow’s burst bubble. Solid blue chip stocks like Canadian banks or Canadian oil and gas stocks are safe   Read More

There’s a lot going on these days for those with private corporations and those without. You owe it to yourself to preserve your hard-earned money for the people and causes   Read More

‘The Back Page’ is a weekly feature of The Investment Reporter that examines the market outlook with a focus on a particular industry. Here are 5 engineering stocks to buy   Read More

The emerging markets are in the best economic shape they have been in for years and they offer something that the developed world does not—explosive growth and dynamism. John Stephenson   Read More

You can profit from shorter-term swings in value by looking for stocks that are stuck within a sideways trading range. ValueTrend portfolio manager Keith Richards reveals four stocks stuck in   Read More

Manulife Financial has thrown cold water on the rumours that it was considering selling its US operations. It does have some underperforming assets in the US, but it would like   Read More

Benjamin Graham wrote that investors should mostly ignore the stock market. They should buy only bargain stocks that the market greatly undervalues. And sell only shares that the market has   Read More

“Irrational exuberance” is how former US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan described the stock market during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist Edward Gardiner looks at   Read More

While the latest pullback in the technology sector might represent a decent buying opportunity, MoneyLetter columnist John Stephenson believes that 2017’s second half strategy is to favor value stocks over   Read More

Hydro One is a buy for long-term share price gains and attractive growing dividends. It’s building a bright future in Ontario and the US.
Hydro One’s shares (TSX—H) are somewhat costly   Read More

In its monthly review of bonds and preferred shares, the Money Reporter recommends two corporate bonds that would fit well in a five-year laddered GIC portfolio.
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At this silver mine it apparently pays to get the lead out. Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist Mike Kachanovsky has found a silver mining stock with enough revenue from its   Read More

At ValueTrend, as the name suggests, portfolio management is driven by value-based principles. But, says portfolio manager Keith Richards, any system worth its salt will save you in the long   Read More

At this time of the year, the forward-looking stock market is more and more using outlooks for 2018 to set stock prices. Before you sell a stock that looks over   Read More

GBC International Growth Fund is well diversified by industry sector. It has exposure to most sectors of the global economy, and its greatest exposure to a single sector is just   Read More

You can profit from shorter-term swings in value by looking for stocks that are stuck within a sideways trading range. ValueTrend portfolio manager Keith Richards reveals four stocks stuck in   Read More

“It’s a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer/Leaving me here on my own/It’s a cruel, (it’s a cruel), cruel summer/Now you’re gone”. British pop artists Bananarama weren’t singing about Canadians’ 2017 proposed   Read More