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ISHARES MSCI JAPAN INDEX FUND, $82.80, is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol EWJ; buy or sell through brokers; us.ishares.com) aims to mirror the return of the Morgan Stanley Capital International Japan Index.

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Dividend Stocks

Great-West is still a hold

GREAT-WEST LIFECO, $59.32, is still a hold. The company (Toronto symbol GWO; shares o/s: 924.8 million; Market cap: $52.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 4.1%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is Canada’s second-largest life insurer, after Manulife Financial. It also offers pension and wealth management services. Power Corp. (Toronto symbol POW) owns 68.3% of the firm.

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Buy 4 of these 6 ETFs for global growth

We think foreign stocks can safely make up 10% of a conservative investor’s portfolio. One way is through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with an overseas focus. The best of those ETFs charge you very low management fees yet offer you well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of high-quality stocks.
Here’s a look at four international ETFs we see as suitable for new buying and two others we feel you should continue to hold.

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ETFs

Copper’s outlook is bright

GLOBAL X COPPER MINERS ETF, $59.30, is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol COPX; buy or sell through brokers; www.globalxfunds.com) lets you track the Solactive Global Copper Miners Index, with 41 global mining and exploration firms. The fund launched in April 2010.

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ETFs

Use these ETFs to tap gold’s and silver’s rise

Most precious metal stocks dropped along with the market in March 2020. They then quickly reversed that trend to soar for investors, in part because of gold’s appeal as a “safe harbour” in times of economic uncertainty. In fact, in August 2020, gold jumped to over $2,000 U.S. an ounce for the first time ever. Gold stocks also jumped.

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Mining Stocks

Newmont up 117% in 2025

NEWMONT CORP., $81.63, remains a buy for long-term growth and as a hedge against inflation. The company (New York symbol NEM; Shares outstanding: 1.1 billion; Market cap: $94.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.2%; www.newmont.com) is the world’s largest gold miner. It also produces copper, silver, lead and zinc.

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Dividend Stocks

New geographic focus lifts BNS

Bank of Nova Scotia acquired a 14.9% stake in U.S.-banking firm KeyCorp (New York symbol KEY) in December 2024 in an effort to pivot away from its underperforming Latin American markets. KeyCorp provides a variety of financial services through 1,000 branches in 15 states.

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How To Invest

Here’s our CWA ETF Portfolio for November 2025

Index funds are mutual funds that invest so as to match market-index performance. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hold baskets of stocks that represent stock indexes.
ETFs trade on stock exchanges, just like stocks.

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How To Invest

Q: Why does TSI only recommend publicly traded REITs?

A: Private REITs are unlike Choice Properties and other conventional REITs, which are publicly traded. Private REITs themselves calculate the value of their units (usually just twice a year, but sometimes quarterly) and needn’t reveal all the information that’s available to investors in publicly traded investments.

Private REITs tout that lack of transparency as a benefit—since it avoids the volatility and speculation of public markets.

On the other hand, staying private also cuts the likelihood that nosy outsiders and analysts will find out about and draw attention to hidden risks and problems that the REITs happen to suffer from.

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How To Invest

Q: Could you kindly give me your input on whether Ecolab (ECL) is worth investing in? Thanks.

A: Ecolab Inc., $257.03, symbol ECL on New York (Shares outstanding: 283.2 million; Market cap: $77.7 billion; www.ecolab.com), develops and markets chemicals and services for cleaning, pest elimination, sanitizing, and maintenance. It sells to customers in foodservices, food and beverage processing, healthcare, government, education, and retail.

The company operates through four main business units: Global Water (49% of revenue) serves customers in the water, food & beverage, paper, and textile-care fields; Global Institutional & Specialty (39%) sells its products to restaurants, hotels, schools and hospitals; Global Pest Elimination (8%) helps detect and eliminate pests; and Global Life Sciences (4%) makes pharmaceutical, personal care, infection and containment control systems.

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Spinoffs

One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

ETFs

What are ETFs?

ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

Value Stocks

What are value stocks?

One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

Wealth Management

Wealth management is the practice of putting your savings to work so that it continues to grow over your lifetime and will also benefit your heirs. Wealth management encompasses many different areas of investing like long term investment planning and retirement planning.

Mining Stocks

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

How To Invest

Pat McKeough has been making investing for beginners simple—and profitable—by helping investors make big gains for more than 25 years. His advice to beginning investors is the same as it is for all investors: buy high-quality, mostly dividend paying stocks (or ETFs that hold these stocks) and evenly spread your investments over the five main economic sectors (Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, Utilities and Consumer). Pat also believes investors should avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight and focus on those with hidden or little-noticed assets.

Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.