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Japan’s reconstruction could prompt a further rise in copper prices. This new FREE report shows you how you can profit with less risk. Copper continues to attract a lot of investor attention. That’s because copper prices recently hit an all-time high of $4.62 U.S. a pound. That’s up sharply from a low of $1.25 U.S. in late 2008. Copper prices fell to around $4.10 U.S. a pound in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, but have moved up since then. The dip in copper prices mainly reflects investor fears that copper demand will drop because the disaster has slowed Japanese industrial production. But that’s just temporary. As the reconstruction of Japan gets underway, the need for wiring, piping, and other copper-based products will be great. That could prompt a further rise in copper prices....

A key part of our three-part tsinetwork.ca portfolio management advice is to downplay stocks that are in the broker/public-relations limelight.

(The other two parts are to invest mainly in well-established, dividend-paying companies and spread your money across the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities.)

Portfolio management: Why “in the limelight” stocks are riskier than most investors think

It’s especially crucial to downplay stocks that are getting a lot of attention from brokers in the media....

There’s no limit to the types of investment questions Inner Circle members can ask Pat and his team of investment experts. Members often ask for Pat’s advice on Canadian stock market investments they are thinking of buying that we don’t cover in our newsletters. These companies range from large multinational firms to the most speculative penny mines. Members also frequently ask about specific investment strategies, or how headline-making events could affect their portfolios. For example, the TMX Group, which operates a number of Canadian stock exchanges, recently announced that it had agreed to merge with the London Stock Exchange (LSE). An Inner Circle member recently asked for our recommendation on TMX Group, and what impact such a merger would have on Canadian investors. To give you a sense of how the Inner Circle works, I’d like to share this question, and our answer, with you. I hope you enjoy and profit from it....

The Money Game, a 1968 mega bestseller about investing, was an eye-opener for a generation of investors, myself included. The author, George Goodman, wrote under the pseudonym Adam Smith. It takes a lot of chutzpah for a writer to name himself after the 18th century Scottish father of modern economics, but Goodman/Smith pulls it off. In his book, Smith introduced a number of key investing concepts that go to the heart of our Successful Investor stock investment advice. Smith has a genius for encapsulating his ideas in anecdotes, and here’s one that jumps out. It concerns the need to invest opportunistically, rather than emotionally. The story concerns a group of portfolio managers on a tour of troubled factories in the U.S. northeast. When passing by one facility, the tour’s broker-organizer commented, “I understand this company has thousands of drug addicts among its employees in that facility alone.”...

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment advice, based on our stock market research. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investment strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “Goodwill should play an important role in your stock market research” When we’re looking for stocks to recommend in our newsletters and investment services, we put a lot of importance on the amount of goodwill that a company carries as an asset on its balance sheet....

A good stock broker can help you manage your investments if you don’t want to do it yourself. However, good brokers have always been hard to find. And, as any good stock broker or experienced investor can tell you, bad brokers are all too common. By “bad brokers,” we mean those who put their own interests above their clients’. Keep in mind, however, that a bad stock broker can do this in a perfectly legal fashion by catering to their clients’ whims and weaknesses. Here are 3 ways to tell if brokers are putting their interests ahead of yours:...

Members of our Inner Circle service often ask for our advice on stocks they are thinking of buying that we don’t cover in our newsletters. These companies range from large multinational companies to the most speculative penny stocks. For example, an Inner Circle member recently asked our advice on Gippsland Resources. The Australia-based penny stock’s two main properties are both located in Egypt, and contain deposits of tantalum, a rust-resistant metal with many industrial uses. To give you a sense of how my Inner Circle service works, I’d like to share this question, and our answer, with you. I hope you enjoy and profit from it....

We’ve long relied on these 3 stock market investing tips to find stocks to recommend in our investment newsletters and services. We think they can help you pick winners, too. (Our special report, “Stock Market Investing Strategy: Pat McKeough’s Conservative Investing Guide for Making Money and Cutting Risk,” is full of lower-risk investing strategies you can easily put into practice right away. Click here to download your copy now.)

1. Think like a portfolio manager: Portfolio managers gather information from companies, industry studies and other sources. A good portfolio manager then tries to build his or her client a portfolio that makes money if things go well, but won’t lose too much if the opinions sometimes turn out to be faulty....

Members of our Inner Circle service often ask for our advice on stocks they are thinking of buying that we don’t cover in our newsletters. These companies range from large multinational companies to the most speculative penny mines and gold investments. For example, an Inner Circle member recently asked for our advice on Northern Abitibi Mining. The company has reported some promising drill results from its gold project in Newfoundland. To give you a sense of how my Inner Circle service works, I’d like to share this question, and our answer, with you. I hope you enjoy and profit from it....