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Investors may not like it, but they do own more stocks. The average investor equity allocation is now back to where it was around the 2007 market peak. This has some people worried that things are getting frothy once again. Maybe they are, but there are some legitimate reasons for the increase in equity allocations by households. Here are 7 of them:

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Discussing the Death Cross in a sensationalistic context is sexy and makes for good financial pornography and conversation over cocktails but that's about all. Here's why.

Market volatility at the beginning of 2016 spurred many investors to seek a safe place to ride out the storm. As is often the case, the stocks they favored lagged in the recovery, and may be less safe than investors think. Let me explain.

I believe each of these 10 companies represent a high level of safety and the opportunity to produce above-average current dividend income and long-term dividend growth.

The better an investor can identify the phases of a market cycle, the more profits can be made on the ride upwards of a buying opportunity.

Since the beginning of the year, Canadian equities have been on a (relative) tear, outpacing most developed and emerging market equities in Canadian dollar terms but this recent brush with greatness begs the question: Is this year’s success the beginning of a long-term trend or a brief flash in the pan?

We see a wider gap between the prospective returns for safe-haven and risk assets, reflected in higher expected returns for equities versus bonds and for non-U.S. equities versus U.S. equities.

Gold & gold mining stocks have been some of the best performers this year. What’s behind that rally and can it continue?

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