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Imperial Oil shares are still a best buy among oil and gas companies

Take our advice and you’ll avoid investing scams involving penny stocks

Don’t follow this investment rule if you want to profit in conservative investments.

Investors who go out of their way to buy cheap stocks sometimes find themselves with stocks that are headed in the wrong direction.

For many investors, the stock trading advice they follow is to decide which stocks to buy, and then try to buy below market price.

Don’t undercut your profits by selling your top rising stocks too soon.

Energy mining stocks are usually volatile, but can give investors good investment returns over the long term.

If you decide to invest in alternative energy, we recommend that you pay attention to these key risks.

Investors who have a fixed idea about the future value of an investment often make the wrong decisions in the present.

Investing success comes from making more right decisions than wrong over a long period of time, and our 10 personal finance tips will set you up for success

Being a fair-weather investor is not a sound stock market strategy.

There are enough stock market risk factors out there already—listening to permabears, commercial alarmists or magic numbers just makes it worse.

Newmont Mining Corp. is positioned to capitalize on higher gold prices with its purchase of key mining sites and its move to cut costs.

Energy stock options may sound attractive, but they’re some of the fastest ways you can part with your money.

Sun Life Financial increased its quarterly dividend 3.8% following acquisition of Assurant Inc., which will expand the insurer’s employee benefits programs.

Recent acquisitions boosted sales by 25% for Ag Growth International and should help protect its 6.1% dividend yield.

An investor’s wealth mindset can often determine their investment success. What kind of wealth mindset do you have?

It pays to take a skeptical view of companies that use acquisitions to expand. Unforeseen problems with these new operations can limit expected profit increases. In extreme cases, multiple problems can force the buyer to write off the entire purchase.

Of course, some companies do succeed with growth by acquisition....

BCE INC. $62 (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 868.6 million; Market cap: $53.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) sells landline telephone services in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces....

THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $53 (Toronto symbol TRI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 750.4 million; Market cap: $39.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.3; Dividend yield: 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.thomsonreuters.com) mainly sells information products to financial clients such as banks and brokerages....

FINNING INTERNATIONAL INC. $22 (Toronto symbol FTT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 168.1 million; Market cap: $3.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.finning.com) sells and services Caterpillar-brand heavy equipment in Canada, South America and the U.K....

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $33 (Toronto symbol GWO; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 992.9 million; Market cap: $32.8 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend Yield: 4.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.greatwestlifeco.com) sells insurance, mutual funds and wealth management services....

CGI GROUP INC. $55 (Toronto symbol GIB.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 302.8 million; Market cap: $16.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.cgi.com) is Canada’s largest provider of computer-outsourcing services....

AGRIUM INC. $115 (Toronto symbol AGU; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 138.2 million; Market cap: $15.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.1; Dividend yield: 3.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.agrium.com) sells seeds, fertilizers and other agricultural products to farmers through 1,400 stores in North America, South America and Australia....

POTASH CORP. OF SASKATCHEWAN $21 (Toronto symbol POT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 839.4 million; Market cap: $17.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.3; Dividend yield: 6.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.potashcorp.com) gets 40% of its revenue and 50% of its earnings from potash, followed by nitrogen (35%, 40%) and phosphate (25%, 10%) fertilizers....