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Q: After being a laggard for most of 2016 &2017, Sylogist shares finally picked some momentum after release of last quarterly results in December, probably due to renewed optimism about company's outlook for 2018 and beyond. However, market interest seems to be fading out as reflected in share price falling back to $9.50-9.75 level (below where it started last year). I do understand that no analyst covers the co. and stock has low liquidity. Over past 4-5 years, since we started investing in the company, it has produced decent returns for us including respectable dividend growth each year, but I am wondering if it's time to lighten up (6-7% of portfolio) and deploy funds elsewhere. Unless, of course, if there is a compelling reason/potential to hold. Thanks
Read Answer Asked by rajeev on January 05, 2018
Q: Charts show Enghouse's trend line becoming parabolic . As happy ( finally ) as I am about this , is it best to exit here ( small position ) , or do you see ENGH continuing upward ?
If you recommend selling , do you recommend my adding these funds to KXS, CSU, SHOP, DSG , other ( which ? ) ... or is the whole sector becoming vulnerable ? Thanks for your help.
Read Answer Asked by Thomas on January 05, 2018
Q: I plan to shuffle my RRSP to include your Balanced Equity Portfolio and the three ETFs above. Would you recommend any exposure to bonds through a fourth ETF?
Read Answer Asked by C Shane on January 05, 2018
Q: Happy New Year, and all the best of 2018.
Our granddaughter is 18 months old. Currently her RESP consists of 64% WN.PR.C and 33% XDIV. I was considering adding XDUH, the hedged version of the above fund, for both growth and income, with this year's total contribution. For direct growth, would it be wise to split this year's contribution between XDUH and SIS, given that all of these investments I make on her behalf are extremely long term holds.

Thanks again. Susan
Read Answer Asked by Susan on January 05, 2018
Q: Need to add a full position to my TFSA. Currently own the above 5i covered stocks with KXS in my TFSA. What is your recommendation? Considering PBH, TOY, DOL.
Read Answer Asked by Chris on January 05, 2018
Q: Good day...Your service and advise has done us well for our tenure with 5i...my question is we have 1600 shares of SIS that is house money at ACB of $6.06 does it make sense to add to this stock or better to hold as is....we have taken profits all along and invested in other balanced stocks and it now represents about a 2% of our total portfolio ...we have the cash to add to this but do not think it makes sense as we gain about 3 times at current ACB...thanks for helping...gene
Read Answer Asked by gene on January 04, 2018
Q: You've liked Descartes in the past and have said it's a good company, but have tended to prefer other tech stocks such as Open Text, primarily because of the valuation of Descartes I believe. I'm wondering what has changed in the last month that you've started to make it as a top pick. Is it simply the 10% approx. pullback after last quarter? Are there any other changes that have occurred that have impacted this decision also? Thanks for your comments.
Read Answer Asked by Christopher on January 04, 2018
Q: I own BOS in my TFSA and am down 20%. Given that I can not claim a loss, am I better off holding it and waiting for them to get back on track or selling and moving on? I have a well diversified portfolio and within the Consumer Cyclical sector where BOS resides, I own a full position in MG, TOY and half positions in NFI, CCLb, TSGI, GC, PTE and XTC (but open to others ...DOO?). Your guidance is much appreciated.

Thanks for an outstanding 2017
Cheers
Scott
Read Answer Asked by Scott on January 04, 2018
Q: I own the following stocks and ETFs in a non-registered account:
ATD.B, AIF, AVO, BCE, BNS, BYD-UN, CCL.B, CNR, CSU, GC, KXS, MG, MX, NFI, PPL, PBH, TD, TOY, SJ, WSP, VFV, VUS, VEF, ZQQ
Apart from the ETFS, this mirrors fairly closely your balanced portfolio...

I also have SIS and PHO in my TFSA. I want to add another stock to my TFSA and saw that you had chosen SHOP as a to pick a while back on BNN. Ryan chose DOL just today. Between the two and considering what I already own which one do you think would be best for me? or maybe there's something else? I am looking at 10+ years before I would need the money. cheers
Andy
PS Thanks for the fantastic service and I hope everyone at 5i has an awesome new year!

Read Answer Asked by Andrew on January 03, 2018
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