Meet Canada’s All-Star Stocks + MORE Nov 7th

Liberal fundraiser Stephen Bronfman, under fire for his ties to an offshore trust in the Cayman Islands exposed in the Paradise Papers, insisted Monday that he “has never funded nor used offshore trusts.” But documents point to close business ties between his investment company Claridge and the Cayman Islands-based Kolber Trust.

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Meet Canada’s All-Star Stocks
Each year our colleagues at MoneySense rank Canada’s most promising stocks—a purely quantitative ranking that identifies high-potential companies with good prospects for growth—but that are still reasonably priced. Out of 200 possible contenders in this year’s batch, only 20 made the All-Star list. Here’s what goes into finding them:
The All Star stocks report evaluates the 200 largest companies in Canada (by revenue) using data from Bloomberg. (This year we also stuck to stocks with market capitalizations in excess of $100 million.) Each firm is graded in two fundamentally different ways. First we consider a stock’s merit as a value investment and then we determine its appeal as a growth investment…

The Paradise Papers leak shows a bigger chunk of former prime minister Paul Martin’s financial legacy has been routed through offshore jurisdictions than was previously known.