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A: Needless to say, this ETF’s prospects are a lot brighter now than they were at this time last week! We see the results of the U.K. election last Thursday—a strong majority for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party—as the best of all possible financial worlds for the U.K....
Exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) have taken the investment world by storm.


In Canada, ETF assets under management have grown by 150% over the past five years, from $77 billion to $192 billion. At the same time, the number of ETFs has doubled. Robust growth was also evident in the U.S....
Medium-sized companies are a bit like the proverbial middle child—they tend not to get as much attention from investors as the smallest or the biggest.


But this creates opportunities for investors who are prepared to add the best of those stocks—or the ETFs that hold them—to their portfolios.


High-quality mid-cap stocks can offer your the stability and balance sheet strength of large caps, while at the same time they give investors growth potential similar to small caps.



What are mid-cap stocks?


Mid-cap stocks are typically defined as those having a market capitalization of between $2 billion and $10 billion....
Many investors overlook mid-cap stocks, thinking that a combination of large- and small-cap stocks will provide their portfolios with all the diversification they really need. However, as a group, U.S. mid-cap stocks have often performed better than large caps and are generally less risky than small caps....
ISHARES CHINA LARGE-CAP ETF, $40.88, is a hold for safety-conscious investors. The ETF (New York symbol FXI; buy or sell through brokers) tracks the 50 largest, most-liquid Chinese stocks. It started up October 4, 2004, and investors are charged a high 0.74% MER....
Investing in frontier-market stocks can lead to success, but investors need to realize that these are riskier than even emerging markets
A: Stryker Corporation, $206.97, symbol SYK on New York (Shares outstanding: 373.1 million; Market cap: $76.8 billion; www.stryker.com), is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies....
A: The Goldman Sachs JUST U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, $44.89, symbol JUST on New York (Units outstanding: 3.1 million; Market cap: $139.2 million; www.gsam.com), started up June 7, 2018, launched by prominent hedge fund manager and billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones.

The ETF’s MER is a low 0.20%, and it yields 1.9%.

Jones’s charitable foundation, Just Capital, conducts regular polling to determine the American public’s most important concerns as they relate to business behaviour....
A: Smartsheet Inc., $44.60, symbol SMAR on New York (Shares outstanding: 87.4 million; Market cap: $5.0 billion; www.smartsheet.com), provides cloud-based software for teams and organizations to plan, capture, manage, automate, and report on their work.

Smartsheet first sold shares to the public in April 2018 at $15 a share.

The company operates in a competitive market and continues to lose money; it will likely report a loss of $0.55 a share in 2020....
A: True North Commercial REIT, $6.98, symbol TNT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 57.7 million; Market cap: $489.6 million; www.truenorthreit.com), owns and operates a portfolio of 46 office properties....