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A: Canadian Apartment Properties REIT, $48.66, symbol CAR.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 145.9 million; Market cap: $7.1 billion; www.capreit.net), is a real estate investment trust that owns multi-unit residential properties, including apartment buildings and townhouses....
A notable event in stock-market history is scheduled to take place in less than a week. It could be a game-changer for the brokerage industry, and may even change our view on investing in new stock issues (Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs).

Slack Technologies Inc....
Identify the worst investments for individuals so you can stop investing in high risk stocks that are rife with conflicts of interest and speculation.
GREAT-WEST LIFECO $33.78 (Toronto symbol GWO; shares outstanding: 987.8 million; Market cap: $31.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.9%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s second-largest insurance company, after Manulife Financial.


The company plans to merge its three Canadian insurance subsidiaries (The Great-West Life Assurance Company, London Life Insurance Company and The Canada Life Assurance Company) into a single firm—The Canada Life Assurance Company....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.83 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 304.6 million; Market cap: $7.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.6%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 233 shopping centres and other properties across Canada....
A: Summit Industrial Income REIT, $11.80, symbol SMU.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 96.3 million; Market cap: $1.2 billion; www.summitiireit.com), is an open-ended trust (see below) that owns light industrial properties across Canada.

As of December 31, 2018, the trust owned 108 buildings, making up 13.3 million square feet of leasable area....
I attended an investment newsletter publishers conference last month, and one topic under discussion was, “What will we do when the Cannabis Boom collapses?”

My view is that the collapse has already begun, but it’s likely to be a slow-motion affair. That’s because of the widespread notion—an example of a fixed investing idea—that cannabis is “The best ground floor opportunity we’ve seen since the early days of the Internet.”

I’ve seen the quote above attributed to Forbes Magazine, and that’s quite possibly where it (or something like it) first appeared....
If natural gas investments interest you, it’s worth looking beyond natural gas penny stocks to more stable companies with established production and cash flow
Barclays plc reported a much lower loss in the most-recent quarter on stronger results for its equities trading operations and rising activist pressure to focus on its retail banking business.
Most REITs, or real estate investment trusts, distribute almost all of their net income to their unitholders. As a result, they pay little or no income tax, since most of their earnings flow through to investors.


Unitholders are responsible for paying tax on the entire amount of a distribution, but they defer paying tax on a big part (usually 50% to 100%) until they sell—and then it’s at the same rate as capital gains.


That big part of the distribution is treated as a return of capital, which lowers the adjusted cost base of an investor’s unitholdings....