Canadian Currents

How They Rate: Second-Quarter Earnings

We still lack absolute dividend clarity for a number of high-profile Canadian companies in our coverage universe. But the latest numbers suggest we’ll have a broad field of high-yielding candidates for long-term wealth-building after Jan. 1, 2011.

 

Low Yield, High Return

Here are three Canada-based stalwarts with impressive records of making consistent payments to shareholders, and we throw in two ETFs that can complement a portfolio of high-yielding Canadian equities.

Fundamentals Lift the Loonie

The Canadian dollar has reached an elevated level and is likely to trend even higher from here. Its flight is all about permanently pricey oil and a strong domestic economy.

On Tax Burdens

Canada looks good from a long-term perspective. A lot has happened over the last four years, but the Great White North remains among the most investor-friendly jurisdictions--for Americans, other foreigners and Canadians as well--on Earth.

How Baseball Explains How They Rate

The CE Safety Rating System quantifies such ambiguous terms as "sustainability." It's a useful tool to separate the great from the good-potential wheat--and those two from the chaff.

Cross-Border Tax Update III

Annex B to the Fifth Protocol--the Canadian explanatory notes--provides that distributions from “income trusts and royalty trusts” that are treated as dividends under Canadian tax law will be treated as dividends under the Treaty.

Cross-Border Tax Update II

Make the case to your broker and clearing house, and let them know you’re not happy that you’re being taxed now on your Canadian income trust dividends and you’ll be taxed again when you take distributions from your IRA.

Cross-Border Tax Update

The debate over the US health care system will soon be over. Taking its place will be, among other issues, the matter of the so-called Bush Tax Cuts and their expiration. And good news emerges from the process of amending the US-Canada Tax Treaty.

Tax Burdens

The Finance Ministry’s guidelines facilitate the conversion of SIFTs into corporations via one of two methods that are both tax-free for Canadian tax purposes and are most likely tax-free for US tax purposes as well.

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.



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Roger Conrad ROGER CONRAD
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Elliott Gue DAVID DITTMAN
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