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MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORP. $22 (Toronto symbol MFC; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio; Finance sector; Shares o/s: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $44.0 billion; Dividend yield: 4.5%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.manulife.ca) is Canada’s largest life insurance provider....
If you want to hold safer stock investments for your portfolio, then diversifying and using our three-part approach will help. It will also help guard against inflation.
For investors like Warren Buffett, investments are best picked with a value investing strategy that focuses on blue chip stocks that can be held for long periods.
As you may know, we send out a letter to our portfolio-management clients once every calendar quarter, with our updated view on the current market environment and outlook. Usually we send it out by the final week of January, April, July and October. Several weeks later, we publish the latest client letter in this section of our weekly Inner Circle Q&A.
This year we are changing the schedule, due to the timing of the upcoming U.S....
This year we are changing the schedule, due to the timing of the upcoming U.S....
We recommend that most investors include top consumer stocks in their portfolios. These can help provide protection against economic downturns—and cut your overall risk.
A: The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF, $43.27, symbol SDOG on New York (Units outstanding: 49.3 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; www.alpssectordividenddogs.com), is an ETF that applies the “Dogs of the Dow” theory on a sector-by-sector basis using the stocks in the S&P 500....
A vast number of factors can affect the price of any stock you buy. That’s why investors have a natural impulse to look for some sort of investing shortcut or formula that can cut the effort that goes into investing decisions. (Ideally, we all prefer a formula that fits on a T-shirt.)
I spent a lot of time researching investment formulas in my 20s and 30s....
I spent a lot of time researching investment formulas in my 20s and 30s....
Royal Bank’s shares have gained 35% since the bank’s 2015 acquisition of California-based City National Bank. Thanks to that purchase, Royal is now the 7th-largest full-service wealth management firm in the U.S.
City National also gives the bank a strong platform to further expand its U.S....
City National also gives the bank a strong platform to further expand its U.S....
A: Emblem Corp., $1.85, symbol EMC on the TSX Venture exchange (Shares outstanding: 120.5 million; Market cap: $198.1 million; www.emblemcorp.com) is a licensed producer and distributor of medical cannabis and cannabis derivatives in Canada....