investment

The most successful investors follow a sound growth investment strategy. Here are some top tips.
Discover the characteristics of the best Canadian real estate investment trust (REIT) to buy, including an example of one we like, as well as one type of REIT to avoid.
BCE INC., $69.50, Toronto symbol BCE, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider: it has 2.26 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces. BCE also has 3.95 million high-speed Internet users and 2.74 million TV subscribers (satellite and fibre-optic)....
RUSSEL METALS INC., $32.90, is a buy. Through their shares, investors tap one of North America’s largest metal distributors: the company (symbol RUS on Toronto) serves 33,000 clients at 48 locations in Canada and 16 others in the U.S.

Russel’s revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2022, jumped 51.2%, to $1.34 billion from $885.4 million a year earlier....
In recent years, I’ve mentioned that the world is going through a gigantic monetary experiment. At first, I was referring to the “quantitative easing” that the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks began in 2008/2009, to offset the financial crisis. But the more I look at it, the more I see a process that’s been going on for a century.

A change in standards


Up till about a century ago, the world pretty much ran on the gold standard....
Learn how to develop the best conservative portfolio for years of long-term investment growth. We even include a top blue-chip stock pick for you.
ENBRIDGE, $57.53, is a #1 Buy for 2021. The firm (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares outstanding: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $114.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.0%; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump Western Canadian oil and gas to eastern Canada and the U.S....

The market plunge at the start of the COVID-19 crisis lowered the unit price of most REITs. That’s because the pandemic forced many businesses—and REIT tenants—to temporarily close. However, as the pandemic wanes, the economy is normalizing. That will let these two REITs maintain, or even raise, their current high distributions.


ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $41.45, is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Units o/s: 128.0 million; Market cap: $5.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Divd....
A: WonderFi Technologies Inc., $1.08, symbol WNDR on the NEO Exchange (Shares outstanding: 161.5 million; Market cap: $176.5 million; www.wonder.fi), aims to provide consumers better access to digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

The NEO exchange, which is recognized by the Ontario Securities Commission, is owned by Aequitas Innovations, a company backed by a number of Canadian and international corporations including Royal Bank, IGM Financial and Barclays....
Here’s the third and final segment of our first-quarter 2022 letter to clients, which we sent out this past February. (For your convenience, here are links to Part One and Part Two, if you want to refer to them)....