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Q: PFD.UN - are you familiar with this new product? It makes sense...but I'm uncertain as it has no track record. Any thoughts?

Description from website:
The Limited Duration Investment Grade Preferred Securities Fund’s investment objectives are to provide shareholders with: (i) a stable stream of monthly distributions; (ii) to preserve the net asset value (“NAV”) per Unit; and (iii) to reduce the risk of rising interest rates by managing Portfolio duration. The Portfolio will be actively managed by Nuveen, seeking to capitalize on historically wide credit spreads currently available in the market.
The Fund will invest at least 80% of the Total Assets in preferred securities (including hybrid securities), at least 80% of the Total Assets in Investment Grade securities and 100% of the Total Assets in U.S. dollar denominated securities.

“Investment Grade” refers to a security / issuer, which, at the time of purchase, has at least one of the following ratings: (i) at least BBB- by S&P; (ii) at least Baa3 by Moody’s Investor Services, Inc.; (iii) at least BBB- by Fitch Ratings, Inc.; or (iv) the equivalent rating by another “approved rating organization” as defined in NI 81-102


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Read Answer Asked by Norman on September 04, 2013
Q: EEP-N: Largest liquid oil pipeline in the US in which Enbridge is a stakeholder. It has a fairly large yield of over 7% and dividends have been slowly increasing over years. Although this co. is not high growth, would this be a good holding in a RRSP. Do you see any valuation risk or stagnant/lowered divided in the next 5 years?
Read Answer Asked by Joseph on September 03, 2013
Q: For the fixed income portion of my US holdings would stocks like MTGE, AGNC, NLY, HTS and CMO be appropriate. They all have high yields. Or does the downside risk on their share prices when interest rates increase make this an unwise investment plan?

If so, what would make more sense?

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Donald on September 03, 2013
Q: Good Morning Peter,

Would it be possible for your team to recommend three or four stocks that pay high, safe, and growing dividends (at least 7%), and positive growth going forward? Or am I just spitting into the wind? In my income portfolio I already own BCE, CPG, DR, ECI, ERF, LW, STB, VSN with an average dividend payout of 8.07% (many of these stocks long-term holds since 2009). And in my wife's portfolio, she owns AQN, BNS, MBT, NFI, PKI, PPL, RSI, ZRE. We have a couple of $50,000 GIC's coming due this month that have been paying 4.35% for the past five years and need to re-deploy these funds.

Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Paul W on September 03, 2013
Q: Thanks for your update on CGX. I am curious to know whether ticket sales from Events like Live From the Met, Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre make a bottom line contribution to CGX. These performances probably raise the average ticket price but I am curious whether they are stand alone profitable as they are frequently sold out. Interested in your thoughts.
Read Answer Asked by Ken on September 03, 2013
Q: Can you advice buy , sell , hold on WJK . For income
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Read Answer Asked by Manuel on September 02, 2013
Q: Could you please give me your opinion on market growth GIC's.

Thank you,
Milan
Read Answer Asked by Milan on August 31, 2013
Q: Good morning team, I have been paging through the income and dividend questions. I am looking to make a substantial purchase in my TFSA and I am looking for your top 3 or 4 dividend paying companies. I would be interested in DRIPS as well but not absolute. Thanks again and have a great long weekend!
Read Answer Asked by Edward on August 30, 2013
Q: Recently, I had asked you about 4 to 6 energy stocks for comparison purposes which you answered. I am still thinking about them and also am considering 2 ETF's. They are ZWU and ZUT. Could you explain the difference and do you have an opinion on them? Thanks again for your good work.
Gary
Read Answer Asked by Gary on August 30, 2013
Q: CUS, further to your comments recently, would you buy , sell or hold right now. I have this one in my TFSA? If they reduce their dividend this thing will get killed!!
Read Answer Asked by James on August 28, 2013
Q: Hi guys,just a quick question on EIF.Im thinking of replacing some of my ETFs which I hold mainly for income (cpd,xre,xhy,xbb) with EIF,I know it is not strickly an income stock and would only be a portion of my income group in my RSSP.
Read Answer Asked by terry on August 28, 2013
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