investment
An investment is an asset or property acquired to generate income or gain appreciation. Appreciation is the increase in the value of an asset over time. It requires the outlay of a resource today, like time, effort, and money, for a greater payoff in the future or for generating a profit.
An investment involves using capital in the present to increase an asset’s value over time.
Investments may include bonds, stocks, real estate, or alternative investments.
Investments can be diversified to reduce risk, though this may reduce the amount of earning potential.
In business contexts, investments are financial; however, consider how some people spend time to make higher incomes in the future (i.e. invest in a college education).
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IAMGOLD CORP., $2.76, symbol IMG on Toronto, has a joint venture with Calibre Mining (symbol CXB on Toronto) to explore the Eastern Borosi silver/gold project in Nicaragua. The partners plan to spend $1.5 million U.S. this year on a 5,500-metre drilling program. They have already completed 11,400 metres of drilling since they formed their joint venture in May 2014. The drilling results have so far included several high-grade mineral showings. They include a 12.9m drilling section that graded at a high 8.73 grams per tonne of gold and 11.5 grams per tonne of silver....
Loblaw Companies Ltd. has integrated Shoppers operations to cut costs, debt and grow earnings, but it will also close less-profitable food stores
Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund, $18.51, symbol BPF.UN on Toronto, (Units outstanding: 20.4 million; Market cap: $379.8 million; www.bpincomefund.com) holds certain trademarks and trade names used by Boston Pizza International at its Boston Pizza restaurants in Canada (but not including the U.S. and Mexico). The trademarks are licensed to Boston Pizza International for 99 years, for which Boston Pizza International pays the fund 4% of the franchise revenues of the 372 Boston Pizza restaurants in Canada. The fund first sold units to the public at $10 each and began trading on Toronto in July 2002. The fund’s royalty income grows from rising same-store sales, and from the opening of new Boston Pizza restaurants in Canada. Over the last year, Boston Pizza opened 12 new restaurants in Canada and closed six, raising its total to 372 from 366....
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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27.20 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 317.8 million; Market cap: $8.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.2%; www.riocan.com) is Canada’s largest real estate investment trust (REIT), with interests in 338 shopping malls containing over 92 million square feet of leasable area. That total includes 48 U.S. malls with over 13 million square feet.
In the three months ended March 31, 2015, RioCan’s revenue rose 7.7%, to $331.0 million from $307.4 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit gained 4.8%, to $0.44 from $0.42.
The trust’s latest acquisitions increased its rental space by 1.7%. It’s also doing a good job of renewing current tenants at higher rates: rents on renewals rose 9.8% in Canada and 8.3% in the U.S.
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In the three months ended March 31, 2015, RioCan’s revenue rose 7.7%, to $331.0 million from $307.4 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit gained 4.8%, to $0.44 from $0.42.
The trust’s latest acquisitions increased its rental space by 1.7%. It’s also doing a good job of renewing current tenants at higher rates: rents on renewals rose 9.8% in Canada and 8.3% in the U.S.
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TRANSCANADA CORP., $49.08, Toronto symbol TRP, has agreed to buy Texas-based Columbia Pipeline Group (New York symbol GPCX) for $13 billion U.S. That figure includes $2.8 billion U.S. of Columbia’s debt. This is a big purchase for TransCanada, which has a market cap of $35.4 billion (Canadian). Columbia operates natural gas pipelines in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, as well as underground gas storage terminals. It’s now working on $5.6 billion U.S. worth of new pipelines. Columbia has already secured contracts from gas shippers, which cuts the risk of these projects....
WESTJET AIRLINES, $20.34, symbol WJA on Toronto, started flying between Toronto and Boston this week. The new service will operate three times daily. The route is operated by WestJet Encore, the company’s Canadian regional airline. Encore started up in June 2013. This business now operates 28 Bombardier Q400 NextGen turboprop planes. Each seats 78 passengers. The flights to Boston are WestJet’s first cross-border route for Encore. The service will allow passengers from Boston to Toronto to connect into WestJet’s expanding Canadian and European networks....
Every investor has to live with all-too-human tendencies that influence our decision-making. You have these tendencies for a reason, but sometimes that reason works against your investment goals. To succeed as an investor, you need to recognize these tendencies, and take control of them. Reaction to danger. This is one of the oldest human tendencies. It goes back to the millennia that our ancestors spent on the African savannah, hiding from saber-toothed tigers and other megafauna, not to mention marauding neighbours. To stay alive, we learned to keep a constant eye out for danger, react quickly, and run fast at the first sign of trouble. False alarms were frequent, of course. But the odds favoured running at any hint of risk. If we ran, we stayed alive, and at times we happened upon a new berry patch, a bird’s nest full of eggs, or a small rodent for our next meal....
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