investment advice

If you subscribe to Stock Pickers Digest, our newsletter that recommends stocks for your aggressive portfolio, you’ll want to take a very close look at the current issue. In it, we reveal the names of 12 stocks you should sell right away—and avoid the potential for big losses. (Note: if you are a current Stock Pickers Digest subscriber or Inner Circle member, click here to view the latest issue, which contains these 12 sell recommendations. Be sure to log in first.) If you’re a long-time subscriber to one or more of our newsletters, you likely know that we downplay market-timing and stock-price predictions in the advice we give you. Instead, we focus on investment quality. This includes the stocks for your aggressive portfolio that we recommend in Stock Pickers Digest....

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “How to invest in the stock market with less risk” Many people come up with unrealistic answers to the question of how much risk is right for them. For instance, when they’re young and just starting out, many investors decide to move away from a conservative investment strategy and speculate. They expect to build a small portfolio into a big one in a hurry, then shift their money into boring, but more dependable investments. Key points to remember:...

These 3 tips for finding the best Canadian stocks have long been part of the advice we give you in our investment services and newsletters, including Canadian Wealth Advisor, our newsletter for conservative investing. We think they can help you spot the best Canadian stocks for your portfolio, too.

1. No stock can ever be so undervalued or desirable that it overcomes a lack of integrity on the part of company insiders: If you have any doubts about the integrity of insiders, sell immediately. There are no limits to the ways in which unscrupulous operators can and will cheat you.
   However, to enhance your long-term returns, not just avoid loss, you need to apply this tip in a moderate fashion. You need to distinguish between lack of integrity on the one hand, and naivete or poor judgment on the other. Many of the best Canadian stocks eventually run afoul of tax rules or regulatory decisions, for instance. If you take that as a sign of low integrity, you can wind up selling solid investments at market lows.

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There’s no limit to the types of investment questions Inner Circle members can ask me and my team of investment experts. Members often ask us about the best ways to profit from specific trends in society. For example, we’ve gotten more questions from members about green energy stocks as concern for the environment has risen. An Inner Circle member recently asked for our recommendation on Electrovaya Inc. This green energy stock’s lightweight batteries can be used in renewable-energy projects and hybrid cars. To give you a sense of how the Inner Circle works, I’d like to share this question, and our answer, with you. I hope you enjoy and profit from it. Q: Hello Mr. McKeough: Recently there has been interest in Electrovaya Inc., which has signed an agreement to provide batteries to Chrysler. What is your opinion on this stock? Regards....

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “The top 3 ways to earn higher profits in world stock market investing” High-quality foreign stocks are a great way to diversify your portfolio. Moreover, many fast-growing markets, like China and India, have positive outlooks. That’s because their people are generally younger than North Americans, and rising incomes are helping more of them advance into the middle class....

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Base your investing strategy on these 3 good investor attitudes.” To succeed as an investor, you need to cultivate three personal mental strengths:...

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I hope you are enjoying and profiting from the free investing advice you get in our TSI Network daily updates. Our dailies aim to educate you on best practices in investing. They cover a range of investment topics, and explain conservative investment strategies you can use to build the best portfolio for you, and grow your wealth with less risk.

Time-tested investing advice that can help you weather any market

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Green stocks continue to appeal to many investors on an emotional and conceptual level. However, many of these companies offer limited investment potential. That’s because green stocks may need a long time to move from the research or concept stage to profitability. As well, many green stocks need government subsidies to be profitable, and the future of these subsidies is uncertain as governments around the world struggle with high budget deficits. To cut your risk in green stocks, we continue to recommend that you focus on established firms that have a sound base of other operations, or whose products have many different uses....

A key part of our three-part tsinetwork.ca portfolio management advice is to downplay stocks that are in the broker/public-relations limelight.

(The other two parts are to invest mainly in well-established, dividend-paying companies and spread your money across the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities.)

Portfolio management: Why “in the limelight” stocks are riskier than most investors think

It’s especially crucial to downplay stocks that are getting a lot of attention from brokers in the media....