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It is important to note that some types of investments provide more security than others. Investors seeking safe investment options should look for well-established companies with hidden assets among other key characteristics.
Sun Life Financial Inc. and Manulife Financial Corp. each offers a combination of solid earnings growth, ongoing share repurchases, and impressive dividend yields.
Top pick Yum Brands Inc. gives you sales growth, steady EPS growth, and a solid dividend
Nutrien Ltd. offers exposure to potash and nitrogen prices, a stable retail base and strong profitability.
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Tax shelters in Canada aim to reduce or eliminate your tax liability, they are great ways for Canadian investors to cut their tax bills.
In some ways, stock buyback benefits are better than dividends. In particular, they give you a tax-deferral option that you don’t get with cash dividends.
Metro Inc. owns 600 grocery stores and 250 drug stores across Quebec and Ontario. We look at whether this dividend stock can keep its profits growing
The most valuable advice I can give you today is this: don’t be too quick to take profits in your U.S. stocks. Since the 1995 launch of our first advisory service, The Successful Investor, we’ve been advising Canadian investors to include up to 25% or so of their portfolios in U.S. stocks The U.S. market gives you access to the world’s top stocks. These stocks come in a range of size and quality that’s largely unavailable in Canada. In 1995, many of these stocks seemed likely to get even more successful as years passed, and that’s what happened. We think things will work out much the same in the next 20 years....
The most valuable advice I can give you today is this: don’t be too quick to take profits in your U.S. stocks. Since the 1995 launch of our first advisory service, The Successful Investor, we’ve been advising Canadian investors to include up to 25% or so of their portfolios in U.S. stocks The U.S. market gives you access to the world’s top stocks. These stocks come in a range of size and quality that’s largely unavailable in Canada. In 1995, many of these stocks seemed likely to get even more successful as years passed, and that’s what happened. We think things will work out much the same in the next 20 years....
Silver Spring Networks Inc., $11.94, symbol SSNI on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 50.3 million; Market cap: $625.8 million; www.silverspringnet.com), helps power companies make their transmission grids more efficient. Its main products include meters and related software that can automatically adjust home thermostats and streetlights. The company is bringing this expertise to technology for monitoring and analyzing data from a wider variety of Internet-connected devices, including smartphones, tablets, vehicles and appliances. This “Internet of Things” could total over 30 billion devices by 2020, and tapping into the information they generate should help Silver Spring’s clients improve their products and make better decisions. Since it started up in 2002, the company has shipped more than 22.3 million network-connected devices. It first sold shares to the public on March 13, 2013, at $17.00 each....