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The Stingy News Weekly (03/04/2012)


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Where to invest $100,000
"Standing in front of a giant glassed in freezer at the sweet shop in Tobermory, Ont., I was faced with a plethora of choices. Which sinful ice cream should I indulge in on a fine summer day? The selection of flavours, toppings, and cones was daunting. Thankfully, I had time to consider the fattening possibilities because the wee nippers in front of me were similarly perplexed. And, as important a choice as it may be, it was only ice cream. But when it comes to investing, the possibilities are vast once your portfolio grows beyond $100,000. Problem is, much like Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans (a devilish Harry Potter confection) the investing flavour you choose might wind up tasting like earwax. Alas!"


Where to invest $10,000
"Can you imagine anything better than studying calculus in the summer? I bet you can. But I found myself doing exactly that, late in my high school days, in a nerdy effort to graduate six months early. Aside from picking up an infinitesimal amount of calculus, I met a fellow keener in class who had the investing bug. He rattled on and on about odd things called mutual funds and how you could make a pot load of money from them. Naturally enough, I promptly forgot about funds for about a decade while exploring calculus a bit more. But I rediscovered them after I had amassed just over $10,000 by playing the part of Beaker to a series of loveable Dr. Honeydews in a variety of laboratories. At the time, I felt that $10,000 was a tidy sum for a young fellow. Not a fortune to be sure. But, just like today, more than a little walking around money. It was also enough to think about alternates to the old bank account and, after some pondering, I moved my grubstake into mutual funds. If only I knew then what I know now. But you can profit from my experience. Here's what I'd tell a younger me about investing, if I had the chance."


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Time to panic
"More worrisome is where consumers have been getting their spending money. As wages stagnate and credit card use levels off, Canadian consumers have increasingly turned to their homes as a source of cash. As of last year, Canadians had pulled roughly $220 billion from their houses in revolving home equity lines of credit, a per capita amount three times larger than the U.S. at its peak."


Raiding the coffers
"The New York Times has an excellent piece today on how state pension plans are borrowing from their pension plans to fund their own pension contributions. This Alice-in-wonderland approach is a salutary reminder of the dangers of funded pension plans they create a pot of money that politicians are tempted to use for their own devices."


Warren Buffett Interview
"If anybody is thinking about buying a home— five years ago they couldn't buy them fast enough because they thought they were going to go up, and now they don't buy them because they think they're going to go down. And interest are far lower. It's a way, in effect, to short the dollar because you can— you can take a 30-year mortgage and if it turns out your interest rate's too high, next week you refinance lower. And if it turns out it's too low, the other guy's stuck with it for 30 years. So it's a very attractive asset class now."


Another look at the performance of active funds
"In this study we evaluate the performance of actively managed equity mutual funds against a set of passively managed index funds. We find that the return spread between the best performing actively managed funds and a factor-mimicking portfolio of passive funds is positive and as large as 3 to 5 percent per annum. Our findings are inconsistent with the view that active funds have little or no incremental economic value over low-cost index funds."



DOW 30 Value Screens

High Dividend Yield StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
AT&T (T)1535
Verizon (VZ)1345
Merck (MRK)2425
Pfizer (PFE)3415
General Electric (GE)3435
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)2215
EI DuPont (DD)4144
Intel (INTC)5314
Procter & Gamble (PG)1324
Chevron (CVX)5454
Notes | More Info...


Low Price/Earnings StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
Chevron (CVX)5454
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)5552
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)5533
Exxon Mobil (XOM)5342
Intel (INTC)5314
Microsoft (MSFT)5213
American Express (AXP)4221
Wal-Mart (WMT)4353
EI DuPont (DD)4144
Boeing (BA)4152
Notes | More Info...


Value Ratio StocksP/EP/BP/SYieldV.R.
Chevron (CVX)54542.72
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)55333.63
Intel (INTC)53143.63
Pfizer (PFE)34153.99
General Electric (GE)34354.26
Merck (MRK)24254.26
EI DuPont (DD)41444.37
Microsoft (MSFT)52134.65
Exxon Mobil (XOM)53424.66
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)55524.66
Notes | More Info...


US Stock SummaryYieldP/EV.R.
Chevron (CVX)YYY
EI DuPont (DD)YYY
Intel (INTC)YYY
Exxon Mobil (XOM)YY
General Electric (GE)YY
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)YY
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)YY
Merck (MRK)YY
Microsoft (MSFT)YY
Pfizer (PFE)YY
AT&T (T)Y
American Express (AXP)Y
Boeing (BA)Y
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)Y
Procter & Gamble (PG)Y
Verizon (VZ)Y
Wal-Mart (WMT)Y
Notes...



S&P/TSX60 Value Screens

High Dividend Yield StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
Enerplus (ERF)1515
Sun Life Financial (SLF)0555
TransAlta (TA)3345
BCE Inc. (BCE)3245
Canadian Oil Sands (COS)5225
Penn West Petroleum (PWT)2525
ARC Resources (ARX)1215
Bank of Montreal (BMO)5435
Shaw (SJR.B)3235
Husky Energy (HSE)5445
Notes | More Info...


Low Price/Earnings StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
Research In Motion (RIM)5550
Iamgold (IMG)5422
Teck Resources (TCK.B)5533
Bombardier (BBD.B)5153
Agrium (AGU)5341
Canadian Oil Sands (COS)5225
CIBC (CM)5235
Barrick Gold (ABX)5322
Brookfield (BAM.A)5542
Husky Energy (HSE)5445
Notes | More Info...


Value Ratio StocksP/EP/BP/SYieldV.R.
Canadian Oil Sands (COS)52251.94
Bank of Montreal (BMO)54352.32
CIBC (CM)52352.33
Husky Energy (HSE)54452.37
TransAlta (TA)33452.61
Power Corp of Canada (POW)44542.68
BCE Inc. (BCE)32452.73
National Bank (NA)43342.98
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)43342.99
Shaw (SJR.B)32353.12
Notes | More Info...


Canadian Stock SummaryYieldP/EV.R.
Canadian Oil Sands (COS)YYY
Husky Energy (HSE)YYY
BCE Inc. (BCE)YY
Bank of Montreal (BMO)YY
CIBC (CM)YY
Shaw (SJR.B)YY
TransAlta (TA)YY
ARC Resources (ARX)Y
Agrium (AGU)Y
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)Y
Barrick Gold (ABX)Y
Bombardier (BBD.B)Y
Brookfield (BAM.A)Y
Enerplus (ERF)Y
Iamgold (IMG)Y
National Bank (NA)Y
Penn West Petroleum (PWT)Y
Power Corp of Canada (POW)Y
Research In Motion (RIM)Y
Sun Life Financial (SLF)Y
Teck Resources (TCK.B)Y
Notes...



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