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He likes the financials in the US. Life insurers are going to benefit the most from rising interest rates and a steepening yield curve. This is the largest US life insurer, and one of the largest financial services companies in the US. A pretty strong global brand, very solid financial balance sheet and a very large distribution network. There is also an easing of the regulatory environment. About 3 months ago, they announced a shareholder friendly $3 billion buyback program. Trading pretty cheap at 10X PE. Dividend yield of 2.95%. (Analysts’ price target is $60.03.)

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He likes the industrial and the defence spending space, and this company really benefits from both areas as their product includes aircraft, engines, elevators, escalators, climate control, etc. They’re going to benefit, not only from the recovery economy, but also that Trump is going to be putting money back into infrastructure and defence spending. Dividend yield of 2.4%. (Analysts’ price target is $116.50.)

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Feels the value will continue to outperform growth going forward. It seriously outperformed growth in 2016 and he thinks that will continue. An actively managed ETF using a rules-based or quantitative type strategy that aims to select global equities with value characteristics. Right now, this carries a very large weighting in the US financial sector. In the last 6 months, it has outperformed against the world Index by over 10%.