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Switzerland has a stable, export-oriented economy, which regularly ranks among the world’s most competitive. In addition, it is home to some of the top performing and best-known global companies. COVID-19 slowed the economy along with most other nations—and it’s still a risk....

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ETFs

Here’s a look at how cash ETFs work for investors

Low-risk ETFs as described above can provide you with a way to hold cash balances in your investment or trading accounts. Here are some of the pricing arrangements and technical terms unique to these funds.

Money market ETFs have a base price of $50 or $100 that adjusts daily as interest accrues in the fund....

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ETFs

These funds are an alternative to holding cash

With today’s still-low interest rates, there are few, if any, high return, lower-risk fixed-income investments available to investors.

But if you must hold cash, and are looking for an alternative to bank savings accounts or holding it with your broker, these four ETFs can give you an edge....

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ETFs

Pass on this ETF

HORIZONS ENHANCED INCOME GOLD PRODUCERS ETF $26.82 (Toronto symbol HEP) invests in an equal-weighted portfolio of North American-listed gold mining companies. The portfolio currently holds 14 stocks with all the top producers such as Barrick Gold and Newmont Corp....

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ETFs

Cut your volatility with these ETFs

Some investors look to reduce volatility in their portfolios for a number of reasons. One is that they can’t sleep at night because they’re nervous about the market outlook. In that case, low-volatilty funds may cut your your losses or even leave you with gains when the market is falling, but they can limit your returns in a soaring market.

Another reason to aim to cut volatility is if you expect you will need to take cash out of your portfolio in the next year or two and you don’t want to risk having to raise cash by selling stocks at low prices.

Below we discuss two ETFs that aim to provide investors with lower volatility portfolios....

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Mining Stocks

Updates on your Conservative stocks: Great-West Lifeco, Loblaw, & Teck Resources

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $33 (www.greatwestlifeco.com) is a hold. The company is Canada’s second-largest life insurer, after Manulife Financial. Canada’s banking regulator—the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions—has lifted the restrictions on capital distributions placed on banks and insurers due to COVID-19 uncertainty....

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Growth Stocks

This grocery retailer continues to impress

Shares of grocery retailer Metro have gained nearly 20% in the past year and are now just below their all-time high of $74 in April 2022. That gain is largely because consumers continue to eat more of their meals at home despite the re-opening of restaurants. Metro will also continue to benefit from new automated warehouses that cut its labour costs....

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Dividend Stocks

New system looks promising

EMERA INC. $62 is a buy. The electrical power utility (Toronto symbol EMA; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 263.1 million; Market cap: $16.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.9; Dividend yield: 4.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.emera.com) is now testing a new technology called BlockEnergy near Tampa, Florida.

Solar panels on homes generate electricity, while batteries store and distribute that power to other houses in the neighbourhood....

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Growth Stocks

Use our updates to enhance your portfolio

TRANSCONTINENTAL INC. $16 is still a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol TCL.A; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 86.9 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 5.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.tctranscontinental.com) is Canada’s leading commercial printer....

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Growth Stocks

Maple Leaf funds lab-grown meat

MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC. $28 is still a hold. The company (Toronto symbol MFI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 123.9 million; Market cap: $3.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mapleleaffoods.com) has expanded beyond processed meat products in the past few years....

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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.