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Many Canadians dream of becoming snowbirds and exploring the southern U.S. “sunbelt” states, such as Arizona and Florida, in the winter. Some choose to buy vacation properties in those states, especially in light of the Canadian dollar’s continued strength against the U.S. dollar and lower U.S. house values. Making real estate investments in the sunbelt can be a great personal decision. However, before you consider such a move, you should first make sure that buying a vacation property doesn’t leave your investments overweighted in real estate. What’s more, there are a number of other special risks and costs involved with buying and owning vacation property in the U.S.
5 risk factors to consider when making real estate investments in the sunbelt
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Here at TSI Network, we’re always looking for new ways to interact with our readers. For example, you can get our latest investment advice, and send me your thoughts, through the popular social-networking service Twitter. As well, we’ll soon be launching a Facebook page that will give you even more free information and advice, plus the opportunity to participate in investment-related discussions with us and other investors, as well. To make it even easier for you to share your views on our investment advice, we’ve recently opened TSI Network to comments from visitors. Adding your comments couldn’t be easier: just scroll to the bottom of the article you’d like to comment on and type in your thoughts (you’ll have to log in first). We hope this will create an ongoing discussion that will let the site’s visitors share their own views on our investment advice, and read other visitors’ opinions....
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 advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Treat Canadian stock options like lottery tickets, because the odds are almost as bad.” Canadian stock options come in two varieties. Calls give you a right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a fixed price, for a fixed period. Puts give you the right, but not the obligation, to sell....
If you need steady income and want to hold bond funds, we advise you to focus on those with short-term maturity dates (see below for more on bond funds). That’s because bonds with shorter terms face a lower risk from interest-rate increases. You should also avoid funds that take part in any kind of speculative trading.
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Low fees, high-quality holdings are pluses for this bond ETF
The iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index Fund (symbol XSB on Toronto) is a bond exchange-traded fund (ETF) that we cover in our Canadian Wealth Advisor newsletter. The fund cuts risk by avoiding speculative trading and emphasizing government bonds....
We get a wide variety of interesting questions from members of Pat McKeough’s Inner Circle. Most often, members ask us about specific investments, such as stocks, income trusts or exchange-traded funds, that they’re considering investing money in. However, they send us other types of financial questions, as well. To give you a sense of how the service works, I’d like to share a recent question from an Inner Circle member on investing money in time-shares. I hope you enjoy and profit from it. Q: Pat: What is your take on time-shares? They seem like a deal for a cheaper vacation. Thanks....
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 advice on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Stock market software is a help, but successful investing calls for experienced human judgment.” Many investment firms manage money with the help of something called a “black box.” This is stock market software that picks stocks or makes other investment decisions, based on historical data. Individuals sometimes buy these programs over the Internet or from direct-mail advertising....
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 advice on successful investing, including how to spot the best bargain stocks for your portfolio. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Spinoffs can bring two-way benefits, to the parent and the spun off division.” In a spinoff, a company sets up part of its operations as a separate public company, then hands shares in this company over to shareholders, or gives them a chance to buy these bargain stocks cheaply. Often, the spun off business and the parent both gain. Here’s why:...
A number of our Inner Circle members have asked our opinion on global stock market investing in recent months, particularly companies that operate in fast-growing emerging markets. Some of these companies may not be well-known to North American investors. However, if it’s possible to invest in these stocks through North American markets, our team of independent investment experts is happy to look into them. We then share our research with all of our Inner Circle members, along with the original member’s question (of course, we eliminate any personal information). We reserve our specific buy/sell/hold advice for Inner Circle members, of course. But to give you an idea of the depth of our research, here are two recent examples of member questions about global stock market investing. One is about a Spanish telecommunications company that’s part of a joint venture to expand China’s wireless networks. The other is about a growing Philippine fast-food chain....
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since we launched TSI Network. When we flicked the switch in June 2009, after months of hard work, the web site already contained a wealth of investment information and stock advice — over 2,000 individual articles, in fact. TSI Network is built on the strengths of our four newsletters: Canadian Wealth Advisor, Stock Pickers Digest, The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster. The site has come a long way in its first year. Its online investment library now contains more than 5,000 articles on stock advice and investment strategy. Plus, we’ve further expanded the information and stock advice you get on the site by adding new free reports and features, such as our “Investor Toolkit” series of Daily Updates. Every Wednesday, these articles give you a fundamental piece of stock advice and show you how you can put it into practice right away....
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 on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a new piece of investment advice and shows you how you can put it into practice right away....