KeyStone's Founder, Ryan Irvine will show you how the Big Bank traditional portfolio building is killing your return potential and how you can make simple changes to build a Buffett Growth Portfolio comprised of 15-25 growth & dividend growth stock portfolio designed to enrich you, not your advisor. He will detail what KeyStone's analyst team looks for in a great stock with real examples of past winners including the best-performing revenue-generating stock on the TSX over the past year Hammond Power (HPS.A: TSX), up over 10,800%, and Boyd Group (BYD: TSX) the best-performing stock in Canada over the past decade up over 10,500%. Mr. Irvine will explore the common profile of these great stocks and give you 5 new profitable and growth & dividend growth stocks you will find nowhere else and can buy today. Included are KeyStone’s top cash-rich gold-related stock, top cash-rich & growing software stock, top renewable energy stock yielding 6%, and more.

Don’t miss this provoking session about portfolio planning, as we look back on 2022 and 2023 and how those years may have impacted Canadian investors’ views of risk. MoneySense senior editor Justin Dallaire talks with Hail Yang, Director, iShares Product Consulting at BlackRock Canada, about how to build a resilient portfolio—not just for 2024 but for the long term.

Even with uncertainty hitting the markets, price action is in sync with the market cycles and timing is key to trading success. By having a roadmap and simple timing tools, an investor/ trader has a structure to navigate the ETF and investing world. Learn to anticipate market direction by reading the Market Map. Using simple tools, find better trade entries and profit targets.  Live market examples of Stocks and ETFs will be provided.

Doom and gloom once again rule the markets, with wars, inflation, high interest rates, corporate scandals, weak earnings, and dozens of other reasons to sell. But investors can always find reasons NOT to buy stocks. Let's put on the rose-colored glasses and look for some positives today, against the backdrop of negativity. There are no guarantees, but buying when 'everyone hates everything' usually works out well for investors, if they have some patience.

Going through market history, we can see that we’ve been in this type of environment before. Kim will outline similar points in history and identify how the past may help prepare investors for what could come this time around. In particular, the recent shift from disinflation to inflation has numerous similarities to the early 1940s - a terrific period of outperformance for value stocks. She will also discuss why exposure to Canadian equities has been especially beneficial to investors during inflationary periods.

Donald will go through some key economic (GDP peaking, interest rates rising, unemployment) and market events (sector strength and weakness in certain industry groups) that are occurring at this time.  He will also highlight events that normally take place in the next phase.

The essence of MegaTrend investing is to establish a straightforward, resilient method to identify high-performing stocks and options, ensuring consistent returns without the need for constant adjustments amid market shifts. In this webinar, Gregg Early, US editor of Proffe Invest, delves into a select set of 10 long-term MegaTrend stocks and in-the-money options contracts that possess the capability to surpass market performance.

Raghav Mehta, ETF Strategist at Fidelity Investments Canada discusses the upcoming opportunities in fixed income. With global central banks embarking on simultaneous rate hike cycles, bond investors faced a challenging and volatile environment. With two consecutive years of negative returns for major bond indices and yields near decade highs, there are now various sectors of the bond market that investors should consider when building a well-diversified portfolio.

Join Helen Hayes, head of iShares Canada, and Jay Jacobs, U.S. head of Thematics and Active Equity ETFs, to learn about the role of thematic ETFs in a portfolio and key themes we’re seeing play out in 2024 through granular pockets of opportunity within A.I., medical innovation, and emerging markets.  

Most investors wait until December to do their tax loss selling. Instead of following the crowd, we take losses earlier in the year and use December to buy beaten down securities at even lower prices. Find out more as Philip MacKellar talks about taking a tax loss, buying into December's tax loss selling, and contrarian investing more generally.

Vince Kraljevic, an ETF Strategist at Fidelity Investments Canada discusses various investment factors and the implications of higher interest rates. In a world of constant uncertainty, diversification remains of utmost importance. Vince outlines how to build an all-weather/All-in-One ETF portfolio to help mitigate volatility, capture strategic alpha over time as well, and offer competitive pricing.