Looking at dollar-cost averaging
Conservative investors often like this strategy, but it may be best to start it in certain months of the year
- By: Gordon Powers
- June 28, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:14
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Investment opportunities in the expanded EU
One year after the European Union added 10 new members, the mood across the region is less than euphoric. Despite the expectations preceding the May…
- By: Dwarka Lakhan
- June 28, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:10
Cervus offers trailer fees to mortgage brokers
Cervus financial group Inc. is applying the trailer-fee business model used in the mutual fund and insurance industries to conventional mortgages, a move that will…
- By: Catherine Harris
- June 2, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:15
Still some miles left in downgraded GM, Ford bonds
With their new poor grade, the auto giants’ debts aren’t for the faint of heart, to be sure, but they are far from being a…
- By: Andrew Allentuck
- June 2, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:09
Wireless signals may be fading
The wireless equipment sector has kept the rest of the telecommunications sector afloat for years. Now it, too, has clearly hit a rough patch. ABG…
- By: James Bagnall
- June 2, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:04
Can investors still bank on banking stocks?
Bank stocks have had such a fantastic run it is difficult to imagine they could ever go out of favour. But they have been out…
- By: Carlyle Dunbar
- June 2, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 08:59
ING Canada expanding through takeovers
Newly public ing Canada Inc. — the country’s biggest property and casualty insurer even before it bought most of Allianz AG’s Canadian operations in December…
- By: Catherine Harris
- May 4, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:46
Child’s play, but with serious money
Many adults find the games kids play in more than 40% of North America’s basements incomprehensible and noisy. But those kids, in fact, are fueling…
- By: Yan Barcelo
- May 4, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:38
Aging population a threat to bond market investors
Bond rating agencies are becoming more vigilant about the effect of an aging population on companies and countries alike
- By: Andrew Allentuck
- May 4, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:58
China’s stock market slow to kindle
All the hype about a super-charged Chinese economy has meant very little to foreign investors in recent years because the country’s stock market has not…
- By: Dwarka Lakhan
- May 4, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:41
How the market is valuing large caps
Here is a starting-point for choosing among large-company stocks: basic valuations of the stocks in the S&P/TSX 60 index. The figures in the accompanying table…
- By: Carlyle Dunbar
- May 4, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 09:39
Canadian firms get read on unique wireless technology
There’s a new kid on the wireless technology block, and a handful of publicly traded Canadian-based system developers are hoping to be part of the…
- By: Ken Mark
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 15:24
Look to hedge funds for the right reasons
Motivation for investor, manager not always same
- By: Richard Croft
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 12:03
Bond investors benefit from end of foreign-content limit
Stock markets around the world tend to move in the same direction, but bond markets vary from country to country
- By: Andrew Allentuck
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 11:58
Going public a daunting task for high-tech firms
Ottawa entrepreneur Terence Matthews deserves credit for his sheer nerve. His attempt to take Kanata, Ont.-based March Networks Corp. public later this month flies in…
- By: James Bagnall
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 11:54
Bond yields irrelevant unless “real” world considered
The term “inflation” is rarely mentioned in text books on bonds, but that’s what investing in bonds is all about
- By: Carlyle Dunbar
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 11:41
Diverse life sciences group offers individual opportunities
The biotechnology, health-care and pharmaceutical companies that are clumped uncomfortably into a small pocket of the Toronto Stock Exchange have been ignored by many investors…
- By: Glenn Flanagan
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 11:22
Why emerging markets are proving world-beaters
Fuelled by myriad internal and external factors, emerging markets have been on a roll over the past five years — significantly outperforming their developed counterparts.…
- By: Dwarka Lakhan
- April 1, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 11:18
Investor guarantees always come at a high price
As advisors, we know about the different kinds of risk with which investors must contend. Business risk and liquidity risk are the two most common…
- By: Richard Croft
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:38
How bond investors can “immunize” their portfolios
Tried-and-proven formulas, which involve balancing long- and short-term bonds against one another, can help clients’ yields
- By: Andrew Allentuck
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:34
Fighting the market’s primary trend is a big mistake
Investors should keep a steady watch on bond and treasury-bill yields in the next few months
- By: Carlyle Dunbar
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:32
Base metals special report: Mutual funds fail to jump on the base metals bandwagon
If you have clients looking for a mutual fund with pure exposure to the rallying base metals sector, you’ll probably have to cobble something together…
- By: Virginia Heffernan
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:27
Base metals special report: Geologist hits motherlode with FNX
It is a long way from cape Breton Island to the American Stock Exchange. Such a thought ran through Terry MacGibbon’s mind as he stood…
- By: Virginia Heffernan
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:24
Base metals special report: First Nickel hopes to uncover buried treasure
Elizabeth kirkwood doesn’t mind being called a follower. When shareholders ask why she would buy a mine deemed unprofitable by Falconbridge Ltd., she points to…
- By: Virginia Heffernan
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:18
Base metals special report: Zinc this year’s darling of the sector
This may be the big year for zinc, the laggard of the base metal rally, which barely budged for the past two years while most…
- By: Virginia Heffernan
- March 3, 2005 October 31, 2019
- 10:15