Franco-Nevada (FNV) is the largest and longest established of the precious metal and oil and gas royalty and streaming companies, with a market cap of almost $38 billion, explains Gavin Graham, a contributing editor to Internet Wealth Builder.

Pason Systems Inc. (Toronto: PSI) is a Calgary based oil services company, which provides specialized data management systems for the oil drilling industry, explains Gavin Graham, contributing editor to Internet Wealth Builder.

Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM) is the largest listed Canadian gold producer; it produced 2.33 million oz. of gold in the nine months to 30th September, 2022 following the takeover of Kirkland Lake Gold in February 2022, observes Gavin Graham, contributing editor to Internet Wealth Builder.

In October, global banking giant HSBC Holdings (HSBC) announced it was considering selling its Canadian subsidiary; those operations make it the seventh largest bank in Canada with $134 billion in assets, notes Gavin Graham, contributing editor to Internet Wealth Builder.

While many commentators are asserting that the coronavirus pandemic has changed everything, and that the trends which characterized most of 2020 will continue in 2021, the situation appears most similar to the end of the technology bubble in 1999-2000. Then too, confident assertions were made that Its different this time, that valuations were irrelevant, and that old economy stocks and sectors such as energy, industrials, materials, and financials were permanently dead and buried. Events proved this view to be mistaken, and the Noughties decade saw out-performance of value against growth and old economy against technology and new wave stocks. Reversion to the mean is one of the most fundamental of investment doctrines. One suspects it will prove itself to be so again this year and for the foreseeable future.