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The Conversion Bonus

Ironically, the Canadian edge is even greater after taking into consideration the gains former trusts have realized after formally converting into corporations.

Feature Article

Takeover Fever

Canada offers two compelling opportunities for a windfall. And best of all, the primary targets are income trusts paying big dividends backed by strong businesses, investments even the most conservative can buy and hold comfortably.

High Yield of the Month

Something Old, Something New

It’s still a golden opportunity to buy healthy, growing companies that have weathered the worst recession in decades, and at low prices we’re unlikely to see again.

Portfolio Update

Making Our Moves

Last year, when unprecedented credit and economic storms blew the financial markets apart, our approach kept us earning safe dividends in strong companies. And this year, when the sun came out again, our picks are up 50 percent on average.

Canadian Currents

What's Up Down Under

For US-based investors looking for ways to hedge against the long-term threat of inflation, to take advantage of the present reality of a declining USD relative to currencies of resource-rich, financially stable countries, and to grab a little China-levered growth, Australia is worth a deeper look.

Tips On Trusts

Three Strategic Cuts

Four How They Rate entries announced distribution cuts last month. Unlike in prior months, all but one of these moves was the result of a strategic move by management rather than direct business weakness.

A Thousand Words

Games People Play

As is the case leading up to every Olympiad, the amount of economic activity the 2010 Vancouver and Whistler Winter Olympic Games will generate has been one of the two central questions ever since a bid was first proposed, the other, of course, being the question of how much they’ll cost Canadian taxpayers.

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Alerts

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- 11/10/09: Flashing Green

- 10/22/09: Questions and Answers

Maple Leaf Memo

The Oil Sands and the World Energy Outlook

At this point, oil sands production of 3.2 million barrels a day by 2020 seems more inevitable than a United Nations-brokered agreement on climate change.

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