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Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • Oversold stocks now make investing your money easier

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    At last! The word oversold – market jargon for “too cheap” – is starting to reappear in analysts’ recommendations. This suggests investors are readjusting to the hefty share price falls of the past two months, and looking for bargains. We are also getting buy recommendations. Among stocks to score these last week were the ANZ…

  • Has Your Investment Portfolio Got ‘Alpha’?

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    NEW YORK – Frank Holmes, chairman, chief executive and chief investment officer of money management firm US Global Investors [GROW], has been on a hot streak, but isn’t afraid to share some of his success secrets with retail investors. With some of America’s top performing mutual funds under the care of his firm, Holmes revealed…

  • Playing With Fire

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    Forget the new zillionaires. There are many good reasons to resist playing with fire in the China craze. When the ducks are quacking, the saying goes, Wall Street feeds them, and right now we ducks are quacking for a steady diet of China-related investment opportunities. If China’s economic miracle ends the way many do (e.g.,…

  • Time for you to diversify

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    Asset managers warn against expecting unit trust funds that delivered outstanding performance in previous quarters to continue producing inflation-beating returns in future. Performance results across the different unit trust categories are again generally good this quarter, and there are even positive returns among offshore funds that had been showing losses for many a quarter. Over…

  • Platinum 20-Bagger Pitches to The Yankees

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    NEW YORK – There are not too many twenty-baggers to go around in any sort of market, but one of them is preparing to list on the American Stock Exchange to better align itself with its major stockholders. London listed Southern African Resources [AIM:SFU] is undergoing a rebranding that will, without being mutually exclusive, broaden…

  • Investing: A Tokyo stock hop

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    Just a few years ago, more than 60 percent of the 1,500 shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange were trading below their book value, with some shares trading below what all of the company’s cash reserves were worth. That is changing fast. Since early February the shares of a fistful of formerly sleepy Japanese…

  • Tax-free investing

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    There are a number of ways investors can shield their money from the taxman. This British guide explains the various options starting with the most popular… Isas Individual Savings Accounts are the most common way of keeping your investments away from the taxman. They were introduced in April 1999 to replace Personal Equity Plans (PEPs)…

  • Merit in Diversity

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    Equities will be the core but bonds, cash and property all have merit in diversity Written 400 years ago, Miguel de Cervantes’ book Don Quixote de la Mancha contains advice well heeded by all investors: “Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in…

  • A tidy but risky global investment vehicle

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    U.S. depositary receipts are a pure investment play But beware lack of liquidity, effects of exchange rates. Want your investment portfolio to keep time with the sizzling hot emerging markets of India and China, but you’re leery of the fee structures woven into many mutual fund products? Ideally, Canadian investors would be able to play…