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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Realistic expectations and an eye toward diversification will help you develop the best retirement portfolio, and give you built-in security
To succeed in the long term, find the best blue chip stocks to buy and hold on to them.
Here are some investment thoughts on snap judgments, the investors who make them and how they can hurt your portfolio.
Stock buybacks can offer investors a number of key advantages over dividends.

We’ve always placed a high value on a sustained record of dividends, mainly because it provides something of a pedigree for stocks we recommend. But stock buybacks are also a great opportunity for investors.

While investors periodically crave cash dividends, they rarely get excited about stock buybacks....
Make a wrong move, and investing in penny mines can cost you your investment
VANECK VECTORS VIETNAM ETF $14.75 (New York symbol VNM; buy or sell through brokers) holds Vietnamese companies and foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from the Southeast Asian nation.

The ETF’s top holdings are Vingroup (conglomerate), 8.6%; Vietnam Dairy Products, 7.9%; No Va Land Investment Group (real estate), 6.7%; the Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, 5.9%; and Masan Group (a food, resources and banking conglomerate), 5.4%.

Investing in Vietnam still comes with aboveaverage political risk....
Even though new products can be enticing, a lot of new ETFs mean higher prices and more risk
Clean energy stocks: strong on emotional appeal but weak on investment strength
Unless you’re willing to take unnecessary risks, follow these tips to find the best aggressive growth stock funds