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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 use it to increase your chances of making winning stock picks. Today’s tip: “Corporate earnings statements can help you find winning stock picks if you read between the lines.” A company’s earnings are different from an employee’s salary. Earnings are indefinite and subject to revision, even years later. Companies have to estimate many costs, and make yearly write-offs against earnings, according to arbitrary rules....

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 and how to make better stock market picks. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a new fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Stay alert for subtle risk factors, because they may appear long before disaster strikes.” Most investors are aware of standard investment risk factors, such as disappearing profits, cuts in dividends, police investigations, etc. But it pays to be aware of more subtle signs of coming problems:...

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 new fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Time spent finding a good stock broker can be an excellent investment.” Investors often ask us to refer them to a good full-service stock broker. Stock brokers are now more commonly referred to as “investment advisors.” But good stock brokers or investment advisors have always been hard to find. We mainly only hear about them after they’ve retired, when investors complain about the bad brokers who have taken over their accounts....

Whether you’re an aggressive or more conservative investor, we feel you can improve your results in stock market investments — and cut your risk — by understanding and avoiding these 5 common investment errors: 1. Focusing on three or fewer of the 5 main economic sectors: Manufacturing and Resources stocks expose you to above-average risk, Utilities and Canadian Finance stocks involve below-average risk, and Consumer stocks fall in the middle. The sectors go in and out of investor favour, depending on economic conditions and investor whim. But in the long run, winners and losers appear in all five. Spreading your money out across most or all of the five sectors limits the role of luck in your results. Your stock market investments will always have some exposure to the year’s most profitable investment area, and that’s a key factor in 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 investment advice on the fundamentals of successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a new piece of investment advice and shows you how you can put it into practice right away....

Whether you’re a beginning or experienced investor, it’s always a good idea to review the fundamental points of successful investing. That’s what we give you in our new “Investor Toolkit” series. Every Wednesday, we’ll give you a new fundamental easy investing tip and show you how you can put it into practice right away. We hope you enjoy and profit from it. Today’s tip: “Sound investor habits and attitudes are as important as good investments.”

To succeed as an investor, you need to cultivate three personal mental strengths:...

One of our key rules for successful investing is to diversify — spread your money out across most, if not all, of the five main economic sectors: Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities. If you follow this rule, you improve your chances of making money over long periods, no matter what happens in the market. For example, manufacturing stocks may suffer if raw-material prices rise, but in that case your Resources stocks will gain. Rising wages can put pressure on manufacturers, but your Consumer stocks should do better as workers spend more....

At Successful Investor Wealth Management, we sometimes get questions from investors who are looking for one great stock pick, or one big idea, that can quickly make them rich.

Beginning investors often start their portfolio investing with these types of ideas....

I hope you are enjoying and profiting from my daily updates on TSI Network. Aside from the daily updates, TSI Network offers a range of other benefits, including over 2,000 articles on individual investments and how you can use our time-tested approach to maximize and protect your profits. Finding what you’re looking for couldn’t be easier. TSI Network gives you a wide range of easy-to-use tools to help you zero in on specific investment information. One of these is the handy list of 27 investing topics on the left-hand side of the site’s homepage....

Criterion Water Infrastructure Fund is a mutual fund that invests in a variety of industries that have something to do with water. These include creating and supplying water, making and selling water-related technology, and providing environmental services and packaged water. Criterion Water Infrastructure Fund is managed by Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management. The fund started up in February 2007. The fund seeks to invest in a number of trends its management sees as currently shaping the global water industry. These are:...