Pat McKeough

A professional investment analyst for more than 30 years, Pat has developed a stock-selection technique that has proven reliable in both bull and bear markets. His proprietary ValuVesting System™ focuses on stocks that provide exceptional quality at relatively low prices. Many savvy investors and industry leaders consider it the most powerful stock-picking method ever created.

As early as 1980, Pat was recognized as #1 in the world of published investment advice by the Washington, DC–based Newsletter Publishers Association, and he was the first multi-year winner of The Globe and Mail’s stock picking contest.

Both CBS MarketWatch and The Hulbert Financial Digest recognized Pat as one of North America’s top stock analysts. The Wall Street Journal called him “one of only four investment newsletter advisors who have managed to serve their readers well over the long haul.”

A best-selling Canadian author, he wrote Riding the Bull, his 1993 book that predicted the stock-market boom of the last half of that decade. Through his many television appearances, he is well-known to investors for his insightful analysis and his candid, unpretentious style.

Bottom line: Pat’s conservative, reduced-risk strategy is a proven approach to safe investing.

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Financial institutions continue to create and market products like index-linked GICs that harvest many fees and commissions, but typically limit your returns.
Investing in high quality stocks rewards you when you have the discipline to keep only the stocks in which you have the most confidence.
BMO S&P/TSX Laddered Preferred Share Index ETF holds floating-rate preferred shares that fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Our view.
Finning International is a value stock that we see rising when commodities rebound, as it rewards investors with a high dividend yield.
pink-sheet-stocks

Pink sheet stocks are the Wild West of U.S.-based stocks and for investors looking for high-risk investments.

Companies that trade on the U.S. over-the-counter market are said to trade as “pink sheet stocks,” a holdover from the days when the quotes for these stocks were printed on pink paper....
penny-stock-promoters

Beware of penny stock promoters. They are usually more interested in boosting their stocks than building their business.

Penny stock promoters love to make deals with major, household name companies. They find it far, far easier to sell stock to the public if Goldcorp, BHP Billiton or some other major mining company has agreed to finance exploration of their mining claims, or if Apple or Intel or some other household-name multinational has agreed to evaluate their revolutionary software or “cloud” application....
growth-by-acquisition

Investors often under-estimate the hidden risks of company that acquires growth by acquisition.


A growth by acquisition strategy is inherently risky....
ENCANA CORP. $9.24 (www.encana.com) is selling its Haynesville natural gas properties in northern Louisiana. These assets account for 9% of the company’s production but less than 3% of its cash flow. Selling them will let Encana focus on its more profitable properties (two in Canada and two in the U.S.), which produce large amounts of oil and natural gas liquids, such as propane and butane....
BCE INC. $54 (www.bce.ca) recently started offering tri-band LTE advanced (LTE-A) service, which is 1.9 times faster than its main LTE network, in Halifax, Hamilton, Oakville and Toronto. Faster wireless service should prompt more of its subscribers to upgrade to smartphones, which generate higher profits than regular cellphones....