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TOP PICK
High Yield Strategies Fund. Bit of a hedge fund packaged into a closed end fund. Liquid way to get access to a strategy of a hedge fund manager and their ability to get good credits as well to hedge out some of the interest rate risks.
TOP PICK
1-5 Year Ladder Corporate Bond ETF. Gives a diversified portfolio, which includes bonds when it's a challenging time to be investing in bonds. Protected by short durations. By laddering, duration is kept down 1 to 3 years. Government bonds are not that attractive and this gives extra yield.
TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Dec 18/09. Down 11.3%.) A play on Canada oil sands. Due to the integration of the Petrocan assets it now has an interesting diversified asset base.
PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Dec 18/09. Up 1.02%.) A global leader in loyalty management and although consumers are a bit out of fashion right now, consumers will continue to spend. Lots of opportunity going forward.
PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Dec 18/09. Down 3.96%.)
DON'T BUY
A play on copper and zinc that really didn't shine last year. Attempted a merger with Lundin Mining (LUN-T), which didn't go through. It showed in the course of this that maybe focus on shareholders and governance was not the strongest.
COMMENT
Opinion on green energy part of their business? This is a relatively new area for utilities so difficult to assess. Likes utilities as most of them have projects that will be able to deliver alternatives without capital (?) going forward. Prefers TransCanada (TRP-T).
BUY
Dividend ETF's? (Philip did not give a symbol. Thanks to viewer Michael for setting me straight. Bill) Good diversified portfolio that doesn't over expose the investor to financials or income trusts.
WEAK BUY
Copper? Bellwether on economic growth. 2008 was pessimistic and 2009 was optimistic. With Chinese central bank tightening actions, thesis of growth in China and developing countries has trailed off. This one would be a way of playing copper and has a reasonable valuation.
COMMENT
US$ over the longer run is likely to weaken again against the currency of resource producing countries such as Canada and the emerging world currencies.
BUY
Canadian Fundamental ETF. This is an ETF that follows a particular indexing methodology based on research on the drivers of security returns.
TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Aug 18/09.) Recommends 30%, as you need to try to make a return. This is a year of capital preservation. The fund he runs is 60% cash currently.
TOP PICK
Revenues and earnings were up 14%-16% last quarter on a year-over-year basis. 4% yield. Company bought back roughly 20% of stock in the last 18 months. Trading at about 6-7 times forward earnings. Federal government passed bill C. 26 last year, which effectively decriminalized the payday loan industry. This should drive down its interest expense over the next 5-6 quarters.
TOP PICK
Believes there is a secular theme towards railways and he wants to own the companies that are making the trains.
PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Aug 18/09. Up 9.33 excluding dividends.) Company had pre-funded a tremendous amount of capital spending that will deliver solid low double-digit earnings growth in the back half of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. 4.4% yield. Still a Buy.

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