Buy Sun Life, hold on to Manulife

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL $35.32 (Toronto symbol SLF; Shares outstanding: 606.0 million; Market cap: $21.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.1%; www.sunlife.ca) sells savings, retirement, pension and life insurance products to individuals and corporations. The company mainly operates in Canada, the U.S. and the… Read More

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL $31.38 – Toronto symbol SLF

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL $31.38 (Toronto symbol SLF; Shares outstanding: 603.0 million; Market cap: $18.9 billion; SI Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.sunlife.ca) sells savings, retirement, pension and life insurance products to individuals and corporations.

The company mainly operates in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.,… Read More

We’re moving Sun Life to buy

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL $31.38 (Toronto symbol SLF; Shares outstanding: 603.0 million; Market cap: $18.9 billion; SI Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.6%; www.sunlife.ca) sells savings, retirement, pension and life insurance products to individuals and corporations. The company mainly operates in Canada, the U.S. and the… Read More

Sun Life Financial $48.69 – Toronto symbol SLF

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL $48.69 (Toronto symbol SLF; SI Rating: Above-average) offers savings, retirement, pension and life and health insurance products and services to individuals and corporations. The company has assets under administration of $425.3 billion. Sun Life operates mainly in Canada, the U.S. and the… Read More

Portfolio diversification: Balance your banks

Portfolio diversification is an important strategy for cutting risk. We like all five big Canadian banks. But we still think adding non-bank stocks like these three insurance companies to your finance-sector holdings is a good idea for portfolio diversification:

MANULIFE FINANCIAL $39.37 (Toronto symbol MFC; SI… Read More

Insurance Buys for the Safety-conscious

Insurance has a stable image, but it has always been highly competitive and volatile. That’s why we’ve said for some time that insurers are riskier than they look. For safety-conscious investors, right now we recommend just three Canadian insurance companies as buys: Manulife Financial, Great-West… Read More