Topic: How To Invest

What is Pat’s commentary for the week of September 27, 2011?

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We place a lot of importance on investment quality. We assign one of our six TSINetwork Investment Quality Ratings to every stock we recommend. We base these six ratings on a total of nine key factors. Many of the factors are widely recognized as investments quality hallmarks, such as a long-term record of earnings and a long-term record of dividends. Others are less widely followed, such as a company’s ability to profit from secular trends. Secular trends go far beyond mere business cycles. They reflect ongoing changes in the world. One key secular trend today is the fact that vast numbers of workers in emerging markets are pole-vaulting into the middle class. This opens up great opportunities for many of our recommendations in the consumer area, such as Tupperware, Kraft and many others. These companies can take the products and procedures they developed and perfected in the west, and put them to work in China, India and other emerging markets,…