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Safer Investment Options are Relative, Depending on Your Investment Needs

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.

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Signet Jewelers Ltd. Leans on Core Brands to Spur Growth

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Dividend Durability: Stocks Attracting Activist Attention

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Sun Life and Manulife Each Offers an Impressive Yield of 3.4% and 3.7%

Sun Life Financial Inc. and Manulife Financial Corp. each offers a combination of solid earnings growth, ongoing share repurchases, and impressive dividend yields.

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Jim Bates

Growth Stocks

Yum Brands is a Good Bet on Steady Unit Growth and Rising Profits

Top pick Yum Brands Inc. gives you sales growth, steady EPS growth, and a solid dividend

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Jim Bates

Mining Stocks

Nutrien Leans on Record Fertilizer Volumes

Nutrien Ltd. offers exposure to potash and nitrogen prices, a stable retail base and strong profitability.

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Jim Bates

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Tax Shelters In Canada: 3 Choices You Need To Know About

Tax shelters in Canada aim to reduce or eliminate your tax liability, they are great ways for Canadian investors to cut their tax bills.

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Stock Buyback Benefits Include Tax-Deferral Options, Unlike Cash Dividends

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.

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

Growth investing balances an investor’s portfolio

Growth investing fills in the gaps in an investor’s portfolio and can lead to an increase in portfolio returns

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

IBM $124.72 - New York symbol IBM

IBM $124.72 (New York symbol IBM; Shares outstanding: 970.1 million; Market cap: $137.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.2%; www.ibm.com) reported better-than-expected results in its latest quarter. In the quarter ended December 31, 2015, revenue fell 8.5%, to $22.06 billion from $24.11 billion a year earlier. However, that beat the consensus of $22.04 billion. IBM gets 60% of its revenue from outside the U.S., and the higher U.S. dollar hurts the value of these sales. The company continues to expand in fastergrowing areas like cloud computing and analytics software. In the latest quarter, IBM’s cloud and analytics businesses increased their revenue by 16%. That revenue now accounts for 35% of the company’s total. It also helps offset weaker demand for IBM’s consulting services and mainframe computers....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

When it comes to high dividend yields, you usually “get what you pay for”

High dividend yields and low P/E ratios are two signs that you need to research a stock very thoroughly before investing in it.

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Pat McKeough

Value Stocks

Value Stocks: New computer chip will spur Intel’s revenue

Intel Corp. aims to grow revenue by $1.8 billion with new chip technology for server computers

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Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

Value Stocks

What are value stocks?

One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

ETFs

What are ETFs?

ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund.. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

How To Invest

Pat McKeough has been making investing for beginners simple—and profitable—by helping investors make big gains for more than 25 years. His advice to beginning investors is the same as it is for all investors: buy high-quality, mostly dividend paying stocks (or ETFs that hold these stocks) and evenly spread your investments over the five main economic sectors (Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, Utilities and Consumer). Pat also believes investors should avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight and focus on those with hidden or little-noticed assets.

Wealth Management

Wealth management is the practice of putting your savings to work so that it continues to grow over your lifetime and will also benefit your heirs. Wealth management encompasses many different areas of investing like long term investment planning and retirement planning.

AI Investing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is essentially the merging of today’s big computing with big data. This has resulted in breakthroughs in everything from creating machines to recognize faces with more accuracy than a human, to the development of chatbots able to collect, organize and simplify all the Internet has to say on any topic.

Spinoffs

One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Mining Stocks

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.