How To Invest
In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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CANADIAN REIT $43.32 (Toronto symbol REF.UN; Units outstanding: 68.7 million; Market cap: $3.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.8%; www.creit.ca) owns 194 properties, including retail, industrial and office buildings, across Canada and in Chicago. These holdings contain over 19.7 million square feet of leasable area. The trust’s occupancy rate is 94.9%.
In the three months ended September 30, 2013, Canadian REIT’s revenue rose 6.8%, to $94.3 million from $88.3 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit gained 8.8%, to $0.62 from $0.57.
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H&R REIT $21.22 (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units outstanding: 269.6 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 6.4%; www.hr-reit.com) owns stakes in 42 office buildings, 112 industrial properties and 164 shopping malls across Canada. The trust has a 98.2% occupancy rate.
In March 2013, H&R finished building The Bow, a $1.33-billion, two-million-square-foot office complex in Calgary. Encana Corp. has already leased the entire building for 25 years.
In April 2013, H&R completed the purchase of 27 properties from Primaris REIT for about $3.1 billion. These assets include the aging 567,000-square-foot Dufferin Mall in Toronto’s west end, which has huge redevelopment potential. As well, eight of the 27 properties now have Target stores as their main tenants.
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In March 2013, H&R finished building The Bow, a $1.33-billion, two-million-square-foot office complex in Calgary. Encana Corp. has already leased the entire building for 25 years.
In April 2013, H&R completed the purchase of 27 properties from Primaris REIT for about $3.1 billion. These assets include the aging 567,000-square-foot Dufferin Mall in Toronto’s west end, which has huge redevelopment potential. As well, eight of the 27 properties now have Target stores as their main tenants.
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ISHARES AUSTRALIA INDEX FUND $24.15 (New York symbol EWA; buy or sell through brokers) is an ETF that holds the 71 largest Australian stocks. Its MER is 0.51%.
The fund’s top holdings include Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 11.4%; BHP Billiton, 10.9%; Westpac Banking Corp., 9.0%; Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, 8.0%; National Australia Bank, 7.4%; Wesfarmers, 3.9%; Woolworths, 3.8%; CSL Ltd., 3.0%; Rio Tinto, 2.7%; Woodside Petroleum, 2.3%; Telstra Group, 2.1%, Westfield Group, 1.9%; and Macquarie Group, 1.4%.
Australia benefits from its stable banking and political systems. It is also rich in natural resources, and it’s close to key Asian markets with vast potential, including India and China.
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The fund’s top holdings include Commonwealth Bank of Australia, 11.4%; BHP Billiton, 10.9%; Westpac Banking Corp., 9.0%; Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, 8.0%; National Australia Bank, 7.4%; Wesfarmers, 3.9%; Woolworths, 3.8%; CSL Ltd., 3.0%; Rio Tinto, 2.7%; Woodside Petroleum, 2.3%; Telstra Group, 2.1%, Westfield Group, 1.9%; and Macquarie Group, 1.4%.
Australia benefits from its stable banking and political systems. It is also rich in natural resources, and it’s close to key Asian markets with vast potential, including India and China.
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TRANSCANADA CORP. $47.76 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 707.0 million; Market cap: $33.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.9%; www.transcanada.com) recently completed the purchase of another Ontario solar power facility from Canadian Solar (Nasdaq symbol CSIQ).
TransCanada now owns four of the nine solar farms it agreed to buy from Canadian Solar in 2011. It expects to take possession of the remaining five by the end of 2014. In all, it will pay about $500 million.
The company has 20-year deals to sell the power from these nine solar farms, which cuts the risk of this investment.
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TransCanada now owns four of the nine solar farms it agreed to buy from Canadian Solar in 2011. It expects to take possession of the remaining five by the end of 2014. In all, it will pay about $500 million.
The company has 20-year deals to sell the power from these nine solar farms, which cuts the risk of this investment.
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MANITOBA TELECOM SERVICES INC. $29.70 (Toronto symbol MBT; Shares outstanding: 76.8 million; Market cap: $2.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.7%; www.mts.ca) plans to build a new data-storage facility in Manitoba that will help it profit from rising demand for cloud computing services.
Technology firms will be able to rent space in this building to house their servers and related equipment. Manitoba Telecom will also help these tenants manage and operate their systems.
The company will spend $50 million to build this facility. That’s equal to 2.0 times the $25.4 million, or $0.38 a share, that Manitoba Telecom earned in the three months ended September 30, 2013. The company expects to complete this project in 2015.
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Technology firms will be able to rent space in this building to house their servers and related equipment. Manitoba Telecom will also help these tenants manage and operate their systems.
The company will spend $50 million to build this facility. That’s equal to 2.0 times the $25.4 million, or $0.38 a share, that Manitoba Telecom earned in the three months ended September 30, 2013. The company expects to complete this project in 2015.
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ISHARES MSCI BRAZIL INDEX FUND $42.51 (New York Exchange symbol EWZ; buy or sell through brokers) is an exchange traded fund that is designed to track the Brazilian stock market.
Top holdings are Petrobras (oil and gas), 10.7%; Vale do Rio Doce (mining), 9.1%; Cia Itau Unibanco Holding (banking), 7.4%; Cia de Bebidas das Americas (beer and beverages), 6.9%; Banco Brandesco, 5.5%; and BRF SA (food), 3.5%.
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ISHARES MSCI CHILE INVESTABLE MARKET INDEX FUND $45.70 (New York Exchange symbol ECH; buy or sell through brokers) is an ETF that aims to track the MSCI Chile Investable Market Index, which consists of stocks that are mainly traded on the Santiago Stock Exchange.
The fund’s top holdings are S.A.C.I. Falabella (retail), 9.2%; Empresas Copec SA (conglomerate), 8.6%; Enersis AS (electricity), 8.4%; Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (electricity), 6.7%; Cencosud SA (retailer), 5.7%; LATAM Airlines, 5.6%; Banco Santander Chile (banking), 4.7%; Banco de Chile, 4.3%; Empresas CMPC (pulp and paper), 4.2%; and Quimica y Minera de Chile (mining), 3.5%.
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ISHARES MSCI GERMANY FUND $30.82 (New York Exchange symbol EWG; buy or sell through brokers) tracks the stocks in the MSCI Germany Index.
This index aims to replicate 85% of the total market capitalization of the German stock market. The remaining 15% is unavailable for investment, partly due to limitations on foreign ownership.
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ISHARES MSCI SOUTH KOREA INDEX FUND $60.73 (New York Exchange symbol EWY; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the MSCI Korea Index.
The ETF’s top holdings are Samsung Electronics, 20.1%; Hyundai Motor Co., 5.5%; Posco (steel), 3.4%; Naver (Internet content), 3.2%; SK Hynix Semiconductor, 3.1%; Shinhan Financial, 3.1%; Hyundai Mobis (auto parts), 3.1%; Kia Motors, 2.3%; LG Chemical, 2.2%; and KB Financial, 2.1%.
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ISHARES MSCI EMERGING MARKETS INDEX FUND $39.78 (New York symbol EEM; buy or sell through brokers) is an ETF that aims to track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
Its geographic breakdown includes China, 18.3%; South Korea, 16.0%; Taiwan, 11.7%; Brazil, 10.6%; South Africa, 7.4%; India, 6.4%; Russia, 6.2%; Mexico, 5.4%; Malaysia, 3.9%; and Indonesia, 2.2%.
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