BCE Inc.
Toronto symbol BCE, provides local and long distance telephone services in Ontario and Quebec. It also operates a nationwide wireless service.
TRANSCANADA CORP. $60.99 (Toronto symbol TRP; Shares outstanding: 800.3 million; Market cap: $52.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.1%; www.transcanada.com) operates a 90,300-kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to Eastern Canada and the U.S....
A: The BMO Low Volatility Canadian Equity ETF, $29.04, symbol ZLB on Toronto (Units outstanding: 47.2 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; www.etfs.bmo.com), provides exposure to a low beta-weighted portfolio of Canadian stocks.
The ETF selects the 40 or so lowest beta stocks from the 100 largest and most-liquid securities in Canada....
The ETF selects the 40 or so lowest beta stocks from the 100 largest and most-liquid securities in Canada....
BCE INC. $59 (Toronto symbol BCE; Income-Growth Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 870.7 million; Market cap: $51.4 billion; Dividend yield: 4.9%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.bce.ca) is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider, with 6.3 million customers in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces....
Dear client:
BCE continues to invest heavily in its networks. Those improvements have helped the company attract more high-speed Internet customers. They’ve also helped BCE add more wireless subscribers as an increasing number of Canadian households give up their landlines.
The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand BCE’s wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings....
BCE continues to invest heavily in its networks. Those improvements have helped the company attract more high-speed Internet customers. They’ve also helped BCE add more wireless subscribers as an increasing number of Canadian households give up their landlines.
The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand BCE’s wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings....
Dear client:
BCE continues to invest heavily in its networks. Those improvements have helped the company attract more high-speed Internet customers. They’ve also helped BCE add more wireless subscribers as an increasing number of Canadian households give up their landlines.
The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand BCE’s wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings....
BCE continues to invest heavily in its networks. Those improvements have helped the company attract more high-speed Internet customers. They’ve also helped BCE add more wireless subscribers as an increasing number of Canadian households give up their landlines.
The company’s upcoming $3.9 billion acquisition of Manitoba Telecom will further expand BCE’s wireless business as well as its geographic reach and earnings....
CI Canadian Bond Fund | $ 31,286 |
CI Canadian Equity | $ 73,406 |
CI Corporate Bond | $ 37,783 |
iShares Cdn S&P/TSX60 | $ 22,640 |
iShares MSCI JAPAN ETF | $ 22,640 |
BCE Inc. | $ 7,592 |
SPDR S&P China ETF | $ 6,783 |
WestJet Airlines | $ 12,090 |
Cash | $ 3,489 |
TOTAL Investments | $ 217,710 |
A: We don’t generally recommend that investors hold mutual funds, mostly because of their higher fees.
In particular, we also don’t recommend bond funds: Bonds are unlikely to perform well over the next few years, if only because interest rates will likely hold steady or rise....
Dear safe-money investor:
We’ve selected our top picks for 2017—one stock, one real estate investment trust and one ETF. Each offers a particularly attractive combination of long-term growth prospects and a reasonable price.
We feel that investors will profit the most by holding a well-balanced portfolio of high-quality stocks and REITs—like our first two recommendations below.
If you want to supplement your individual stock holdings, then ETFs, like our third recommendation, provide a sound alternative.
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $77.89 (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $94.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%, www.scotiabank.com) is the third largest of Canada’s five biggest banks.
In the three months ended October 31, 2016, the bank earned $1.9 billion, or $1.58 a share....
We’ve selected our top picks for 2017—one stock, one real estate investment trust and one ETF. Each offers a particularly attractive combination of long-term growth prospects and a reasonable price.
We feel that investors will profit the most by holding a well-balanced portfolio of high-quality stocks and REITs—like our first two recommendations below.
If you want to supplement your individual stock holdings, then ETFs, like our third recommendation, provide a sound alternative.
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $77.89 (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $94.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.8%, www.scotiabank.com) is the third largest of Canada’s five biggest banks.
In the three months ended October 31, 2016, the bank earned $1.9 billion, or $1.58 a share....
These six ETFs hold mostly blue-chip stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each ETF mirrors, or tracks, the performance of a major stock market index. That’s different from narrower indexes that focus on resources or themes such as solar power or biotech.
Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....
Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....
TELUS $43.51 (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 591.4 million; Market cap: $25.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.4%; www.telus. com) provides a wide range of telecommunications services across Canada, including television, high-speed Internet, and wireless and landline telephone services.
The company recently agreed to repurchase up to 1.0 million of its shares from a private seller at a discount to the market price.
The move is part of Telus’s plan to buy back up to 8.0 million of its common shares, or roughly 1% of the total outstanding, by September 29, 2017....
The company recently agreed to repurchase up to 1.0 million of its shares from a private seller at a discount to the market price.
The move is part of Telus’s plan to buy back up to 8.0 million of its common shares, or roughly 1% of the total outstanding, by September 29, 2017....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $26.78 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 325.1 million; Market cap: $8.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.3%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 301 shopping centres in Canada.
The trust is teaming up with Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol BEI.UN) to build and operate an 11-storey residential/retail tower in Calgary....
The trust is teaming up with Boardwalk Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol BEI.UN) to build and operate an 11-storey residential/retail tower in Calgary....