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POWER CORP., $41.03, is a buy. The conglomerate (Toronto symbol POW; Shares outstanding: 621.7 million; Market cap: $28.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.8%; www.powercorporation.com) is a holding company with a diversified list of businesses.


Its primary investments are controlling stakes in Great-West Lifeco and IGM Financial....
Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S. unless those funds are also registered with provincial securities commissions. (Moreover, some Canadian mutual funds are only available in a limited number of provinces.)


Investors in this country can, however, buy exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, listed on U.S....
A: We’re not tax experts, so you might want to consider talking to an expert—especially if there are large funds involved.

However, transferring shares in kind into a TFSA does trigger a capital gain or loss for income tax purposes.

If the investment is in a capital gains position, you will have to declare it as a capital gain on your income tax return....
A: CIBC’s new Canadian Depository Receipts (CDRs) aim to give investors the opportunity to buy shares and/or fractions of shares in any of a number of U.S. or other foreign companies, in bundles that start out trading at a price of about $20 Cdn. each. CDRs come with a built-in hedging feature that reduces exchange-rate fluctuations....
Dear Inner Circle Member,

You may draw a blank when you hear the term “poka yoke,” but it’s a good bet that you run into examples of it every day.

The term was coined in the 1960s by a worker in a Japanese Toyota plant. A poka yoke is a feature of a manufactured product that aims to prevent using the product in a costly, harmful or dangerous way....
DREAM OFFICE REIT $24 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol D.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 54.9 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; Dividend yield: 4.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Average; www.dream.ca) sold roughly 138 properties in 2016 as part of a new strategic plan....
Allied Properties continues to build new projects, particularly in Toronto. Those developments will help it profit as more workers return to their offices. Meantime, H&R is spinning off its retail properties as part of a plan to focus on the residential and industrial segments....
AUTOMOTIVE PROPERTIES REIT $13.50 (Toronto symbol APR.UN; Units outstanding: 39.1 million; Market cap: $527.9 million; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.automotivereit.ca) is a real estate investment trust that owns 66 commercial properties across cities in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C....
Dear Inner Circle Member,

In July 2011 we analyzed Pfizer’s prospects and felt it offered our readers a strong combination of long-term growth and income. We—and you—have not been disappointed. The stock touched a new all-time high of $51.86 in August 2021, which is an impressive 159.3% above the $20 that the stock was trading for when we first recommended it in our Wall Street Stock Forecaster newsletter....
Calls by activist investors for corporate breakups are working. In fact, IBM, GE and Johnson & Johnson have all announced or completed spinoffs in the past few weeks. That pressure should draw more attention to the prospects of these two stocks, but we see just one as a buy right now.


ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC ADR is a hold. The company (New York symbols RDS.A $45 and RDS.B $45; Resources sector; ADRs outstanding: 2.05 billion; Market cap: $92.3 billion; Dividend yield: 3.6%; Takeover Target Rating: Lowest; www.shell.com) is one of the world’s largest oil companies with about 87,000 employees in 70 countries....