Investment Q&A

Q: I currently own both of the above securities in my RRSP account in equal weights. I want to sell one of them. I am leaning towards selling ENB because it will reduce 1 company risk, but on the other hand there probably would be more upside to ENB. The funds will be used to buy a growthier name in TECH. Which would you sell?
Still have 6 years before needing any funds from the RRSP

Q: Hi 5iTeam,
Cramer on CNBC's Mad Money mentioned a number of cloud stocks i.e. Splunk, Alteryx, Twilio, etc....that are not your household names for cloud stocks. As far as I can see, none of the above stocks mentioned in Cramer's piece are in SKYY's (cloud stocks etf) holdings. Just wondering if you are aware of an etf that are focused on the lesser known cloud stocks.
Cheers,

Q: If we are headed to zero / negative interest rates, I am thinking of playing this thesis by purchasing XLB to capture the capital gain on the interest rate reduction and XGD should do well in a low / negative rate environment. The balance of the portfolio is VBAL and XEG. What do you think? Thank you

Q: Hi team,

PA recommends to reduce my technology exposure which is at 38%. Only problem is I am unsure which tickers to get rid of, like them all.

In my RRSP; OTEX at 4% and XAW at 21% not a direct tech exposure but does hold plenty of tech, just not sure how much.

LIRA: SHOP at 6.5%( recently chopped it from 9% to 5%), LSPD 5%, KXS 3%, QST 2.2%,

TSFA: CUSat 5%

Which one would you pull the plug on?

Tks

Q: We just recently were switched from a fund we had been invested since 2002 into this fund in one our RIF accounts, we had to switch or sell. The reason given was to lower the MER which is still a hefty 1.2% in our case the amounts to $1090.92 per year and rising if the fund goes up in value as we have always reinvested the monthly income the current yield is 2.09%.
The fund has been in a trading range since inception from the information I can gather at TD.
My thought is to sell and distribute the money to the either the Conservative or Balanced ETF portfolios in the newsletter which both have higher yields.
I'm not sure what the total MER would be for the ETF portfolios do you have that number available?
Downside is it would double the number of investments in this account to many to follow.
Do you know of other one stop ETF's that are worth consideration as we would like to keep the funds in a balanced investment, we would not intend to use this money for 5 yrs and reinvest any income in the fund.

Q: Gentlemen, good morning
Can You please suggest few Web sites for searching ETF from Canada.
Thank You. Regards

Q: Good morning, I am noticing more recommendations lately for longer term bond ETFs i.e XLB and TLT. I have traditionally been using CBO, XBB along with some preferreds (regrettably) and a small amount of XHY. Should this old retiree consider any change in fixed income holdings? Thanks for your service.
Ted

Q: Am looking to increase my international exposure by adding ZDI and/or RID. Any preference between the two and would you buy the hedged or unhedged versions.

Q: The Analytics tool suggests I am significantly overweight geographically (Canada). The tool also suggests I downsize my financial holdings and increase Consumer Defensive, Tech, Healthcare, and Industrials. Which sectors would you tackle first to increase? Please provide 2 or 3 stocks/ETFs that you would recommend to begin re-balancing my portfolio geographically and by sector?

I am a long term investor and I have evolved over the years towards buying more of the larger cap companies.

Thank you!

Sean

Q: I am retired and wish to structure a conservative portfolio consider the uncertainty of the economy. I favour banks (RY, TD), utilities (Fortis and Algonquin) and Telecoms (BCE and Telus), BrookMiled Asset Management, Brookfield Renewable and Brookfield Infrastructure Microsoft and Berkshire B.

I would lik´to have 40% in bonds and favourCLF, XBB, XSB and XSH. I would move from FTB even though it has a higher yield but a higher MER.

Your comment would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Donald

Q: How do you know whether an ETF pays a dividend, which would be eligible for the dividend tax credit or a distribution which does not have the dividend credit?
Thanks
Jeff

Q: I would appreciate your opinion on this etf and would it be a good safe place to put cash for holding for future deployment in a market downturn? Do you have any other suggestions that are equal to or better than?

Q: I hold 6% of my total in HAB. It's my only bond exposure. Now there is the concern that a very high % of investment_grade bonds is BBB, which may cause trouble in recession.Do you think it'd be prudent to switch into CBO or VSB? Or anything you may suggest? Or am I reading too much into this?
Thank you
Jerry

Q: Good morning gentlemen, which one would be the safest from this three. Parking for 2-3 years. Thanks. Alnoor

Q: Your opinion of HUZ please.Thanks.

Q: Hi 5i,
I have $70,000 CAD to invest for 3-5 years and tax is not an issue. I am thinking of ETFs : 40% Canadian Stocks, 32% American stocks, 8% Global and 20% Bond.
Would you please advise what to buy? or if you have better combination.
Thank you.

Q: What would you expect will be the key drivers of CPD's price in the marketplace? Eg would it likely follow equities down/up (because of reliance on credit of issuers) or moreso bonds ("safe" haven for yield when equities are volatile)? How do interest rates impact it? What would it do in a recession? I'm not looking for a prediction of the future, but a simplified model on how to think about this kind of security. Thanks.

Q: Any advice on where to put savings to acquire a low risk return? Currently the funds are in a high interest savings account earning 2.75%. GICs don’t look much better. Looking for some alternatives with low risk but a little better return.

Thanks,

Chris

Q: I will be selling CM on the US as I have enough Canadian banks and wonder if I would to buy a bank on the US exchange which would be the one you prefer or better to buy a ETF since only one US bank would be own?
Thanks

Q: Hi there,

What are your thoughts regarding the recent yield curve inversion and this signalling an upcoming recession? Markets seem sensitive to headline news and I'm wondering if now would be a good time to devote a decent amount of my portfolio to a low volatility ETF until things subside. If so, which ones would you recommend at this time? I believe BMO has a pretty good product line. In addition to this ETF holding I will also hold the Canadian growth equities listed from your Balanced Equity Portfolio.

Thanks!