successful investing
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 advice on successful investing, including retirement planning. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “Retirement planning calls for realistic calculations.” Suppose you’re 50 and want to retire at 65. You have $200,000 in your RRSP, and expect to add $15,000 yearly for the next 15 years. To determine if this is enough to retire on, you need to make assumptions about investment returns and income needs....
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 a specific advice on successful investing, including tips on portfolio management. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away....
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 advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “It takes more than a DRIP to make a stock a worthwhile buy.” Some companies offer automatic dividend reinvestment plans, also known as DRIPs. These plans let shareholders reinvest their dividends to buy additional shares (or fractions of shares) of the company. DRIPs bypass brokers, so shareholders save on commissions....
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 advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “Short sellers make money fast when they win, but most wind up losing.” When you sell short, you borrow stock from a broker and then sell it. However, you eventually have to buy back the stock on the market to return it to its owner....
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 advice on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Successful investors own big and small companies.” Shares of large, well-established companies have rebounded well after the 2007-2009 market crisis. Investors sometimes refer to these companies as “large cap stocks.” That’s because they have a market “cap” (that’s short for “capitalization,” or total value of shares outstanding) of several billion dollars or more....
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 advice on successful investing, including how to profit in Canadian mutual funds. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “These 3 rules can help you make higher profits in Canadian mutual funds with less risk.” Here are 3 rules we stick to when we’re researching mutual funds to recommend, including the 10 fund picks we’ve included in our special report “Mutual Funds Canada: Inside the Top 10 Canadian Mutual Funds.” While a mutual fund’s performance is never guaranteed, following these rules should help you avoid making poor choices....
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 advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Treat Canadian stock options like lottery tickets, because the odds are almost as bad.” Canadian stock options come in two varieties. Calls give you a right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a fixed price, for a fixed period. Puts give you the right, but not the obligation, to sell....
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 advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Dividends can produce a large part of your total return over long periods.” Dividends rarely get the respect they deserve, especially from beginning investors. That’s because a dividend paying stock’s yearly 2% or 3% or 5% dividend barely seems worth mentioning alongside possible yearly capital gains of 10%, 20% or 30% or more....
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 advice on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Stock market software is a help, but successful investing calls for experienced human judgment.” Many investment firms manage money with the help of something called a “black box.” This is stock market software that picks stocks or makes other investment decisions, based on historical data. Individuals sometimes buy these programs over the Internet or from direct-mail advertising....
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 advice on successful investing, including how to spot the best bargain stocks for your portfolio. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Spinoffs can bring two-way benefits, to the parent and the spun off division.” In a spinoff, a company sets up part of its operations as a separate public company, then hands shares in this company over to shareholders, or gives them a chance to buy these bargain stocks cheaply. Often, the spun off business and the parent both gain. Here’s why:...