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Pass on this ETF: iShares MSCI Canada ETF

One of the key attractions of exchange-traded funds is the lower fees compared to mutual funds. In addition, as more competitors entered the market, fees on many ETFs continue to drop.

One of the older U.S.-based funds with a large asset base and higher fees is the iSHARES MSCI CANADA ETF $35.03 (New York symbol EWC)....

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ETFs

Balance holdings across the 5 sectors

We continue to recommend holding a portfolio of stocks diversified across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Finance, Consumer, Manufacturing, Utilities and Resources). This cuts your risk of heavy losses from over-indulging in a sector that’s about to plunge....

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How To Invest

Here’s our Aggressive Growth Portfolio for May 2023

You Can See Our Aggressive Growth Portfolio For May 2023 here.

If you’re like most investors, you should invest the major portion of your money in stocks from our Conservative Growth Portfolio....

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Growth Stocks

Updating your Aggressive stocks: FirstService, Nutrien &, Toromont Industries

FIRSTSERVICE CORP. $190 (www.firstservice.com) is a buy. The company provides property management services to businesses and individuals. FirstService tends to fuel its growth with acquisitions....

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Value Stocks

Use Linamar to tap growing EV demand

Auto parts maker Linamar is now positioned to take advantage of the shift to electric vehicles (EVs). Given it remains a trusted supplier to the world’s largest carmakers, we’re confident this shift will be as successful as Linamar’s past move into construction and agriculture equipment.

LINAMAR CORP....

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Growth Stocks

CGI keeps winning new contracts

CGI INC. $133 is your #1 Aggressive Buy for 2023. The company (Toronto symbol GIB.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 245.1 million; Market cap: $32.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; No dividends paid; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.cgi.com) is Canada’s largest provider of computer-outsourcing services....

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Dividend Stocks

Use our updates to enhance your portfolio

BCE INC. $63 is a buy. The telecom giant (Toronto symbol BCE; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 912.0 million; Market cap: $57.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.4; Dividend yield: 6.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.bce.ca) plans to spend about $4.8 billion in 2023 on expanding its fibre-optic Internet systems and high-speed 5G wireless networks....

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Growth Stocks

New plan lifts ShawCor’s stock

SHAWCOR LTD. $12 is a buy, but only for highly aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol SCL; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 70.5 million; Market cap: $846.0 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend suspended in March 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.shawcor.com) is conducting a strategic review of its businesses that serve the oil and gas industry—Pipeline Performance Group, Shaw Pipeline Services, and Oilfield Asset Management....

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Pat McKeough

Dividend Stocks

High-quality utilities still top bonds

We prefer top-quality utility stocks over bonds, mainly due to the favourable tax treatment of dividends compared to interest payments. We like both Canadian Utilities and ATCO, which both offer dependable dividends. ATCO’s holding company discount also enhances its appeal.

CANADIAN UTILITIES LTD....

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Value Stocks

Great-West’s acquisitions make us wary

Great-West Lifeco has completed several acquisitions in the past two years as part of a plan to diversify beyond insurance. The plan should spur its long-term growth, but constantly integrating new businesses adds risk.

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC....

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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.