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ETFs

QUIZ: Ins and outs of how to buy exchange traded funds (ETFs) for a successful portfolio

Test your knowledge with this QUIZ on how to buy exchange traded funds (ETFs). The answers will help ensure you are putting the best funds into your diversified portfolio

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Scott Clayton

Wealth Management

Learn how to calculate dividend yield—and then how to use this key ratio

Discover how to calculate dividend yield as an important part of the process of picking the best stocks to boost your portfolio returns.

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

QUIZ: Learning about stocks for fun—and profit

Successfully learning about stocks means discovering how to do insightful research—but above all, investigating widely, rather than focusing on a narrow range of information

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Here’s how to find the best stocks that pay monthly dividends (or quarterly or annually)

Choose investments with strong balance sheets and industry dominance to discover stocks that pay monthly dividends and offer consistent growth

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Scott Clayton

Penny Stocks

Penny stock gainers—tips on buying them and selling them

Investing in penny stock gainers is risky enough without using a “black box”. Plus here’s a great rule for taking penny stock profits.

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Scott Clayton

Blue Chip Stocks

Add the best conservative investments to your portfolio for maximum gains with lower risk

Putting lower-risk blue chip stocks and the top ETFs that hold those stocks into your portfolio will let you tap into the best conservative investments for long-term gains

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Scott Clayton

Wealth Management

QUIZ: What are cyclical stocks? Test your knowledge and learn more here.

What are cyclical stocks? Discover the answer, plus how these types of stocks best fit into your portfolio

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Pat McKeough

Penny Stocks

Highly-speculative investments rarely, if ever, pay off

Buying highly-speculative investments such as penny stocks is especially risky. So it’s important to use our three-part philosophy to build your overall portfolio

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Scott Clayton

Blue Chip Stocks

Here’s how to find the best U.S. stocks to buy for international portfolio diversification

Look for blue chips with a history of paying dividends to find the best U.S. stocks to buy for increased portfolio returns

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Investor Toolkit: How to make the most of your tax free savings account (TFSA)

While many Canadians continue to ignore the tax free savings account, specific advice on how to make the most of this growing savings plan.

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

Use these investment ideas for beginners to build a better stock portfolio

Follow these investment ideas for beginners to benefit from superior long-term gains from your portfolio

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Discover the best dividend-paying stocks for your (successful) portfolio

Putting the best dividend-paying stocks into your well-diversified portfolio will help you make more income right now—and more gains in the long run

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Scott Clayton

Penny Stocks

QUIZ: Do you know how to invest in penny stocks for beginners?

Answer the investing quiz questions below to discover how much you know about how to invest in penny stocks for beginners and experts alike

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Scott Clayton

ETFs

Here’s how to find the best oil ETF for your well-diversified portfolio

A top oil ETF will give your portfolio exposure to oil prices. But like all ETFs, you need to choose wisely.

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Scott Clayton

Dividend Stocks

Two ways to buy Canadian financial shares

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ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $105 (Toronto symbol RY; Income-Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $147.0 billion; Dividend yield: 3.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.rbc.com) is Canada’s largest bank with assets of $1.38 trillion....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

Pembina has lots of growth ahead

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Pembina Pipeline continues to enjoy our Above-Average Dividend Sustainability Rating....

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Pat McKeough

Wealth Management

Avoid misleading model retirement investment portfolios to make sure you buy the best stocks for you

Be very skeptical of the model retirement investment portfolios put out by some brokers. The many hypothetical and theoretical strategies they use rarely translate into real-world returns

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Pat McKeough

Blue Chip Stocks

Do you know all of the benefits of dividend paying stocks? Canada provides a big tax break, for example

Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of dividend-paying stocks. Canada gives Canadian residents with dividend stocks a tax credit, but do you know what the tax savings are? Plus more quiz questions.

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Scott Clayton

How To Invest

Is now a good time to buy stocks? Look beyond the headlines to learn the answer to this question

Is now a good time to buy stocks? Examine the theories that forecasters rely on to predict market swings—and learn their flaws.

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Scott Clayton

Penny Stocks

Here’s what to look for in top TSX stocks for your portfolio

Use these strategies to uncover the top TSX stocks, including undervalued stocks that could boost the value of your portfolio

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Scott Clayton

ETFs

Malaysian stocks primed for future growth

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Malaysia has an steady track record of economic growth and ranks as one of the most competitive nations among the emerging markets....

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Pat McKeough

Spinoffs

We like this spinoff and its former parent

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KAR AUCTION SERVICES INC....

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Pat McKeough

Spinoffs

AltaGas split produces two buys

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AltaGas is now focused on high-growth U.S....

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Pat McKeough

Wealth Management

Keep politics in perspective to make better long-run investment decisions

Politics is important, but if you focus your long-run investment decisions on a multitude of other factors, you should see better returns over time

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Pat McKeough

How To Invest

QUIZ: Do you know the RRIF rules that lead to greater profit?

Discover how much you already know (or don’t know!) about RRIF rules and how this great tax-deferral opportunity can help you plan for your retirement

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Scott Clayton