Scott Clayton

Scott is an associate editor at TSI Network. He is the lead reporter and analyst for Dividend Advisor, Power Growth Investor and Canadian Wealth Advisor and a member of the Investment Planning Committee. Scott began his investment and financial career working with Pat McKeough at The Investment Reporter in the 1980s. Subsequently, he worked at the Financial Post Corporation Service for 10 years. He joined TSI Network in 1998. He is a Bachelor of Economics graduate of York University, and he also has an M.B.A. from the Schulich School of Business.

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ATLAS COLD STORAGE INCOME FUND $6.26 (Toronto symbol FZR.UN; SI Rating: Speculative) provides temperature-controlled storage and logistics services to processors, distributors, food service providers and retailers across North America. Growing losses forced Atlas to halt distributions in 2003....
CONSUMERS’ WATERHEATER INCOME FUND $13.62 (Toronto symbol CWI.UN; SI Rating: Speculative) owns a portfolio of approximately 1.3 million installed water heaters, rented primarily to residential customers in Ontario. The units currently yield 8.7%. A lot of the fund’s growth comes from installations in newly built homes....
TD CANADIAN EQUITY FUND $29.13 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (TD Asset Management, P.O. Box 7500, Station A, Toronto, Ontario. M5W 1P9. 1-800-463-3863; Web site: www.tdcanadatrust.ca. No load — deal directly with the bank) uses a “bottom-up” approach (using fundamentals such as earnings, cash flow and low debt) to identify undervalued companies with strong growth potential.

TD Canadian Equity Fund’s 10 largest holdings are Manulife Financial, Suncor Energy, Royal Bank, EnCana, TD Bank, Petro-Canada, Rogers Communications, Bank of Nova Scotia, Falconbridge and Valero Energy.

The $2.4 billion fund currently holds about 31.8% of its portfolio in Financial services shares....