In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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But, at the same time, we think that they could also hold up to, say, 30% in more aggressive stocks. Younger investors with a longer time horizon could hold the full 30%. Meanwhile, older investors could also hold 30%, in particular if they are investing for their heirs. In that case, you have the luxury of investing more for growth than other retirees who depend on their portfolios for income.
Investors tend to prefer “pure play” businesses that operate in a single industry and that can be easily analyzed. As a result of the reorganization, Loblaw’s shares have posted an impressive 237% gain in the past five years and hit a new all-time high in February 2026! Note, that performance tops the 79% gain for the S&P/TSX Composite Index over the same period.
We designed our Portfolios to help you build the kind of portfolio we advocate. First, you should invest mainly in stocks from our “Average” or higher TSINetwork Ratings, which make up the bulk of the choices in our Portfolios.
The ETF tracks the Bloomberg Commodity Index. The current segment split of the ETF is Energy (37%), Agriculture (27%), Precious Metals (17%), Industrial Metals (14%), and Livestock (5%). The commodities are not held in a physical form, but rather through the use of derivative instruments.