What should investors keep in mind with the positive vaccine news? Don't discount the fact that global equity markets, including Canada, are in the throes of a cyclical bull market. Vaccine is great news for humanity and investors. Yet a number of investors remain nervous and are waiting to invest. You can outthink yourself sometimes. Don't do that. This is a primary bull market, and it's shaping up to be a good one.

Why are we in a long-term bull market? We just had an epic recession. Primary impulse of an economy is to grow. Coming off such a depressed base, we're back to growth. GDP in Canada of 40% annualized. If that isn't economic expansion, he doesn't know what is. It wasn't your garden-variety recession. It was artificially induced to reduce virus spread. We will get past the new waves. Corporate earnings will grow robustly in 2021 due to massive stimulus, which has also made household incomes resilient, so people are spending money.

Dividend is safe. Dividend has grown about 13% compounded over the last decade. Size and cadence of dividend has slowed. Company is surviving and thriving, due to management. Earnings growing consistently. Good acquirers. Has a bit of beta, so a good play in this market. Cheap at 8x earnings.

L vs. WN A bit like splitting hairs. Weston controls Loblaw. When you buy Weston, you get 95% Loblaw and 5% bakery. A great business. A buy and hold through the cycles. If you get a rip roaring cyclical market, it will probably lag. High single digit or low double digit return. He doesn't like the bakery, so Loblaw gets the nod.

WN vs. L A bit like splitting hairs. Weston controls Loblaw. When you buy Weston, you get 95% Loblaw and 5% bakery. A great business. A buy and hold through the cycles. If you get a rip roaring cyclical market, it will probably lag. High single digit or low double digit return. He doesn't like the bakery, so Loblaw gets the nod.

Stock is cheap, but whether it represents value is another question. There are safer and better ways to get a 5% yield, with the prospect of growing it. Small, weak, poorly operated, regional play.

Great company. Expensive. Its consolidation plays have been impressive. Management has proven it has the wherewithal to keep that going. Story is not broken. The stock is taking a pause. If it represents a heavier weighting in your portfolio, trim. Should still be in a growth investor's portfolio.

It's fine, but not his top pick in the telco space. Low beta. Less of a yield than others. A defensive, work from home play. Some of the bloom may come off the work from home trade, and money may flow to more cyclical parts of the market.

View on telcos right now. Low beta, good yield. A defensive, work from home play. Some of the bloom may come off the work from home trade, and money may flow to more cyclical parts of the market. Telcos are respectable on income, but not so much on capital gain in the medium term. None of the telcos are making him jump up and down right now.

(A Top Pick Jan 09/20, Down 7%) He'd buy again, despite the rough ride this year. Premier growth stock in consumer discretionary space. Iconic. It's not if we get past the pandemic, but when. Tim's is the fly in the ointment, but it will get sorted. There will be future acquisitions.

(A Top Pick Jan 09/20, Up 7%) It's done well in the past coming out of past recessions. When we get back to more robust economic conditions, methanol demand will pick up. Methanol prices are already up off June/July lows. A survivor.

(A Top Pick Jan 09/20, Up 16%) A good day to buy this stock is any day that ends in "y". Your timeline for buying this is "forever". He's still buying today.

Sold it on valuation concerns, and seems to have stagnating earnings, though they continue to boost the dividend. Not timely now. Best of breed on the TSX. It's in the low beta, high yield, defensive category that could be a source of funds for better opportunities.

Gold stocks. He's bullish on gold. Sometimes it trades like a commodity (risk on), sometimes like a currency. The trend is your friend, even if you can't quite explain why, so respect the price action. Gold is undeniably in a cyclical bull market. Might be only at the middle innings of this trade. He plays it through FNV, the best way to get exposure to the commodity and exploration, while insulating yourself from financial and geopolitical risk.

He's bullish on gold. He plays it through FNV, the best way to get exposure to the commodity and exploration, while insulating yourself from financial and geopolitical risk.