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Walmart Sees an Accelerating Transformation Pay Off Now and for the Future

Top pick Walmart Inc.’s earnings are projected to grow by double digits in 2027 while the stock boasts a “quality premium” to reflect its successful tech pivot.

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Jim Bates

Blue Chip Stocks

Intact’s Underwriting Excellence Drives Superior Growth

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Jim Bates

Blue Chip Stocks

Telus Offers a 9.0% Yield

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Jim Bates

ETFs

These iShares MSCI ETFs Navigate Trade Headwinds With Impressive Gains

iShares MSCI Germany Fund & Australia ETF offer concentrated entries into both an industrial backbone and exposure to the global resource sector.

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Scott Clayton

Growth Stocks

The Best High-Risk Stocks to Invest In for Aggressive Investors

Aggressive investors looking at high-risk stocks to invest in should only allocate a small part of their portfolios to those investments

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Double Gift Returns: Our Top Canadian Buyback‑and‑Dividend Picks

Discover 7 Canadian stocks delivering a double gift: meaningful share buybacks plus durable, sustainable dividends—as featured in TSI’s latest Globe and Mail column.

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Scott Clayton

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Wealth Management

Retirement Investments to Avoid? Here Are Our Thoughts on This Critical Subject

Retirement investments to avoid include everything from bonds down to stock options. Here’s why.

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

How to Get the Most Capital Gains Tax Benefits From Your RRSP

Tax savings are the most valuable part of an RRSP,but some investments can increase your capital gains tax if they’re sheltered in an RRSP

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Pat McKeough

Wealth Management

Defensive Stocks: Definition, Examples & How to Offset Risk

Learn what counts as a defensive stock in Canada, how these sectors behave in downturns, and the metrics to judge dividend safety and risk.

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Pat McKeough

Growth Stocks

Discover how to find the top Canadian growth stocks for maximum portfolio gains

Here are some of the main types of top Canadian growth stocks—and how to assess which ones offer you the best prospects

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Scott Clayton

Wealth Management

5 Steps to a Successful Retirement Investment Plan

Build a retirement investment plan more successfully when you focus on tried and true ways of saving, like using an RRSP and a RRIF, among other strategies

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Pat McKeough

Wealth Management

5 Key Factors That Influence Investment Decisions — Every Investor Should Know

Understand the factors that affect investment decisions so you maximize your portfolio returns. Keep reading to learn more.

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Pat McKeough

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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.