Investment Q&A

Q: HCG recently announced leadership appointments such as New CIO, SVP Underwriting and SVP Human Resources. Looks like they are building a long-term strategic team to lay the foundation for growth and managing operations effectively.
In this context how does 5i view the developments.
Two key questions here.
1) What would you recommend for existing investors and what advise would you give for new investors looking at making a stock purchase
2) What impact can we expect in the next couple of quarters or say year 2018 in terms of earnings and business outlook? Will the new appointments and personnel costs have significant impact on earnings in near term?

Q: Happy New Yea 5i, I am looking for income, please rank/rate the above, considering future interest increase influence, perhaps suggesting a better choice. Many thaks,J.A.P., Burlington

Q: I have 30k to invest and am looking for something with low volatility and a good dividend and decent growth. Oh these tree which would you choose?

Q: i already have full positions (4%) in bip and bep. i have been looking at bbu but after going through some documents on the bbu website it appears that bbu is engaged in some similar businesses as the other 2. what would you recommend as another option besides bbu?

Q: If I sold ALA at a lost (capital loss/gain) and purchased ALA.R would the 30 day rule apply
Merry Christmas
Cec

Q: To clarify; when you refer to warrants are those the subscription receipts?
Thanks
Mike

Q: Good morning from the West Coast.
Merry Christmas and a Profitable New Year to all the staff at 5I.
My question : Is there a CDN ETF that has a monthly payout please?
Thanks
Rick

Q: I am down 10% with CU, should I hold or sell, I can still hang on but I am getting frustrated
thanks for you help

Q: Hi Team,

Wondering what you think about Rogers as a short term trade. When I look at the 1 year chart I see a few levels of consolidation. Do you think it will pop back to recent highs or test one of the lower levels?

Thanks,

Jamie

Q: I'm confused as to why PPL Corp has been nosediving recently ? Fundamentals such as P/E, P/B, , Roe @ 14.6%, a nice dividend, all seem pretty positive to me ? Debt could be a touch high, but growth seems positive, I'm not sure whats occuring ?
Thanks Ed

Q: Looking at Rogers Sugar as it has a great dividend and wondering how you voew this.

Q: Hi,
I have many of my stocks enlisted in DRIP. I am a long term investor and don't need to draw on any of the dividends right now and have a well diversified portfolio. What types of stocks would be ideal or better to enlist as DRIP? Growth stocks don't really pay dividends so we can probably ignore those. Comparing stocks such as AQN, GSY, SIS, ECI, SGY, etc..how would you rank them for DRIP or would they all be fine?? I have many stocks that pay decent dividends but I'm trying not to continue to drip in losing stocks where I can invest those dividends elsewhere.

Thanks, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

Q: If one is moderately concerned about a potential market pullback, would ONEX be a good hedge? How does this stock react in market downturns compared to FFH?

Q: Could we please have your outlook on

1) Brookf. BBU.Un

2) Finning FTT - more upside???

Thank you.

Q: As I understand it, the purchase of WGL Holdings will be paid for with the US$4.95 billion bridge loan provided by the banks with the balance being assumed debt. The intention is to replace the bridge loan with the proceeds from the subscription receipts, the private placement to OMERS and additional debt, preferred shares and hybrid securities. One of the major concerns investors seem to have about ALA is a fear that it might run into the same issues as Kinder Morgan and its purchase of NGPL. In that case the stock price plummeted from $45 to $15 when it had to cut the dividend in the face of Moody's threat to cut their rating. In your assessment is ALA in a similar precarious position or does it have it's financing in place? I have a full position in ALA and I am trying to reasonably assess the risks based on what we know (speculative risks are what they are).
Appreciate your thoughts as always.
Mike

Q: Merry Christmas to you folks
I have held Onex for many years and done well by it. I could add to it to bring it up to full position in a well diversified low risk portfolio. Just wondering about timing. I hear BNN guests talk about good times and bad times in the cycle to buy private equity type companies like Onex and KKR. Just wondering if this is a good time or better to wait for setback in market.

Thanks Stuart

Q: Season G's...How would you compare a convertible bond etf vs short term bond etf in a rising interest rate environment. Specifically regarding capital erosion and income, can they really be compared as similar investments all the best gary

Q: Hi 5i,

I'm a younger guy (mid 30s) who's fortunate enough to have saved hard and basically paid off my primary residence. I'm now looking to redeploy that equity through a credit line, which comes at a cost of prime + 0.5%. Our TFSAs are maxed (aligned with model BE/growth portfolios) and RRSP contributions are healthy, so I'm comfortable with our total equity exposure, but I would like a low-risk income-oriented holding in a new non-registered account that yields enough after tax to offset the cost of capital on the credit segment. Is there anything that comes to mind? Maybe a series of Prefs (neutralizes rate risk assiciated with this strategy) with a few high-yielding equities to bump up the overall yield?

Thanks for your help!

Q: Morning 5iResearch Team,

I am thinking of taking a position on HHL but a little leery about the high dividend yield. Your thoughts on this ETF is much appreciate.

Q: Hi Peter and team,
Recent PR from IPL regarding the 3.5 B project is confirmed, Market doesn't like it with SP down 7% in two days, at least for short term reaction. interesting, PPL's December Corp Update Ppt, showing " Pembina is proposing development of a world-scale, integrated PDH/PP facility in Alberta's Industrial Heartland " Here is the question, :
Is the same project (PP/PDH facility) or different ones ?
If the same one then IPL decided to go ahead, would PPL take it off from its to do list ?
As PPL's 2018 Budget doesn't show any major spending on PDH/PP project and still showing in progressing... no final decisions... .
Thanks