Canadian stocks tend to have higher dividends than U.S. stocks, so are biased more toward income than capital appreciation, expert says. Photo by Getty Images/iStockphoto

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Q. I’d like to diversify out of just my guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) into dividend or potential capital appreciation stocks. How should I do this? I am in the process of deciding how to invest about $600,000 that I received from the sale of my home. I have maxed out my tax-free savings account (TFSA) into a global equity exchange-traded fund (ETF) and have purchased $400,000 in laddered GICs with terms of one to three years but

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