Investment Q&A

Q: Could I please have your opinion of Diversified Royalty

Thanks

Q: I am underwater 4.1% on VET and 6.7% on DRG.UN. Is this because of the recent crisis in France? We do need the income, but is this the time to sell, or should I hold? If I sell, I'll have over $70,000 to invest. Can you give me some dividend paying Canadian names to look at. We already have all the major banks,MST,SRU,AX,HR,DRG,HOT,CSH reits, BIP.UN,BEP.UN,PKI,NFI,NWC,EMA,NPI,FTS,BCE,T > Many thanks.

Q: Hi Peter In your response to ? if the market is working .Not so in the case of IPL had a bang up Q and raised the Div .Yet got hammered by the market .Investors don't seem to see that a pipeline makes the same money transporting $40 oil as 100 $ oil.
Not a ? just my morning rant
Kind Regards Stan

Q: capital power makes a ton of cash i am concerned with their coal fired plants getting phased out. would they be okay with this happening, is it priced in.Would veresen be a solid long term hold?

Q: Could I have your thoughts on the latest quarter. Thanks.

Q: My current utilities allocation is 7.4% spread over BEP.UN, ALA, and PPL. Can you please suggest a forth holding for stability and dividend growth that would be suitable to pick up at current prices?

Thanks,

Stephen

Q: 12 per cent dividend yield with an fcf payout ratio under 50 per cent so very safe, growing revenue, ebitda and free cash flow, buying back stock. I thought direct cash really delivered. your thoughts. dave

Q: What is your opinion on TRP in the short term? Should I expect some Tax Loss selling before the end of the year? Jeff

Q: I have a position in GS. Could you please comment on recent results and your thoughts going forward. Many thanks as always.

Q: I am a retired, conservative dividend income investor, with a well diversified portfolio of stocks, ETFs and mutual funds (AD, AQN, ALA, BCE, BNS, CGX, CPG, PBH, RY, SLF, WCP, WEF, WSP, XIT, ZLB, RBC Cdn Eqty Inc, Sentry Cdn Inc, Sentry REIT, Insured Annuities, Fisgard Capital), as well as a company pension and CPP.

Question # 1: BCE is 4.0% of my TOTAL portfolio, but 6.1% of just my EQUITY portfolio. When you discuss stock weightings, is it of the total portfolio or only the equity portfolio? What general guidelines do you recommend? I use roughly 2-4% per stock, and 4-10% for either ETFs or Mutual Funds.

Question # 2: My asset mix is 65% equities and 35% fixed income. Within equities only, my mix is 25% finance, 18% utilities, 17% consumer, 4% health, 14% industrial, 9% info tech, 10% energy and 4% materials.

I am looking for a very conservative, blue-chip, dividend-paying stock (> 3% dividend) to add and I'm not sure which sector to top up. Please point me to the right sector (or two) with 3-5 stocks to consider.

Thanks, Steve

Q: ho folks:

in feb 2011 i purchased this at $30.30 (in rrsp)

-- the income rec'd is very close to the drop in capital value

-- ie, i have rec'd about 2k in income and the shares are down about 2k - so i am about breakeven (ish)

question: understanding the oil/alta problems; am i better to sell and buy say a SIA/EXE or ZRE/XRE or ??, OR is D.UN a blue chip that is suffering unduly?

sell, or hold and wait for eventual recovery?

this is my only real estate holding

thanks

Q: Hey Peter & Team,

I took a look at the recent reporting as of Nov 5. From what I can tell, poor crop expectations, resource prices and related uncertainty,regional economic uncertainty surrounding oil prices, which primarily impacted new equipment demand in the Alberta construction market, the increased Canadian dollar cost of new equipment due to appreciation in the US dollar are all creating a significant head winds for CVL.

I am in at $24.20 (4% position)

From what i can see my options are to cut the loses and put this capital to work elsewhere or, hang tough and wait it out.

my questions...

Would you advise I move or hang tough?

ps... dividend is very good... do you think it is safe?

Thanks for all you do

Gord

Q: I currently own CU, EMA, ENB and FTS. Building an income portfolio to start paying in 7 years ( with some growth ) do you think there are any other utilites you would also recommend holding in addition? Also if you are not a fan of any of my holdings let me know. ( I have many non utility holdings )

Many Thanks

Paul

Q: Your thoughts on this high yielding (12% effective yield) approach to eventually owning Emera shares. How did you view the TECO acquisition? How significanlty do you anticipate rising rates affecting EMA share price?

Q: In March of this year you indicated the current pay-out ratio for RNW was 61% based on cash flow. Could you please provide the pay-out ratio based on latest results and whether you are still comfortable with this stock overall?

Q: Your analyses from Aecon on the results were very postive.
The stock is down almost 8% this morning.
What is the market telling us that you do not know?

Q: dr reported this morning and the stock is getting hit hard, what do you think of their results.

Q: DR had a less than stellar report today, and the stock price has taken a big hit. Would you consider it a "buy" at the current price, with dividend income being the main purpose? Do you consider the dividend reasonably safe, or not so much so? Is this report possibly indicative of things to come?

Thank-you

Q: DR released their results today with income from continuing operations down 11.1 percent compared to a year ago. Was this expected with the sale of the Dakota Plains Surgical Center? Thanks

Q: Your thoughts on Aecon's earnings released after the bell yesterday (Wed, Nov 11th) please and their prospects going forward?
Thanks