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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.
With energy prices down, Encana has cut its dividend and sold assets, but we still view it as an energy stock with great long-term potential.
This will be our last Inner Circle Q&A for 2015. Our next issue will go out on Tuesday, January 5, 2016.
Now is a good time for me to say “Thanks!” to all our Inner Circle members. It’s a pleasure to read and answer your questions. I take great pleasure and pride from the many compliments and expressions of gratitude you send every week.
That’s especially true when I hear from a member who I recognize from decades ago—from the early days after the 1994 launch of The Successful Investor, or from the two prior decades that I spent at The Investment Reporter and MPL Communications.
It’s also great to see that our Successful Investor philosophy and practice have begun attracting more and more younger investors.
I wish you all a great year-end holiday and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!
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Now is a good time for me to say “Thanks!” to all our Inner Circle members. It’s a pleasure to read and answer your questions. I take great pleasure and pride from the many compliments and expressions of gratitude you send every week.
That’s especially true when I hear from a member who I recognize from decades ago—from the early days after the 1994 launch of The Successful Investor, or from the two prior decades that I spent at The Investment Reporter and MPL Communications.
It’s also great to see that our Successful Investor philosophy and practice have begun attracting more and more younger investors.
I wish you all a great year-end holiday and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!
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Trimac Transportation, $5.70, symbol TMA on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 28.2 million; Market cap: $155.7 million, www.trimac.com), is a trucking company that operates across Canada. Trimac has more than 500 customers and ships products like chemicals, petroleum, cement, wood and wood products, resources, food and compressed and liquefied gases. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company’s revenue fell 6.2%, to $95.2 million from $101.7 million a year earlier. That’s mainly because low oil and gas prices have hurt the Western Canadian economy....