Investment Q&A

Q: Can you give a quick comparison of these 3 ETF’s ? For dividend income and security, long term hold, should I own all 3 , if not explain why and in which order would you buy ?
Please advise anything else relevant.
Many thanks,

Q: Hello i5 crew...I am repositioning my cash account for retirement dividends to supplement my RIF account withdrawals. I like the tax favoured Canadian dividends and have blended ZLB, ZWC and ZDV for that purpose. There is a lot out there and would like your suggestions for long term long term dividend generation. Thank you in advance...

Q: My Granddaughter is <1 and currently has $3000 in her RESP. I see that in a past question you recommended VGG for an RESP for 6-8 year old children. Would you stick with that given the longer time frame or would you have a different suggestion? Should we conceder more than one product?
Thanks, John

Q: Do you like the components of this ETF?
Do you like it as an investment in 5G

Q: Hi Peter and Ryan,
We received the last portion of our funds in cash from Sun Life today. We are a little hesitant to open new equity positions or foray into bonds. The stock analysis highlights that we need to add REITS but that sector seems to be under pressure this week. The risk and payback seems unbalanced everywhere we look today.
As we are into our early 60's we have given thought to placing 40% of our portfolio that arrived as cash into a temporary safe place. If you were to choose today which ETF's are recommended out of CMR, XFR, HFR to place funds for deployment at a later date.
Cheers
Jerry and Debbie

Q: Total portfolio $632000: 2 RRIF’s, 2 TFSA’s , 1 non registered C$ account and 1 non registered U$ account.
In registered accounts 4.3% of total portfolio In VGG.
In non registered U$ account WMT with BV of
U$ 9294.55.
If sold at today’s MV would return 10.3% in a little less than 6 months.
What is your opinion on selling WMT and using funds plus additional cash of 6000U$ to buy
VIG.
This would make approx 7% in US.
I also own , what I consider quasi US, AQN in TFSA and ENB in several of the accounts.
Appreciate your input.
Thanks

Q: I have a non-registered a/c, a RRIF and a TFSA and would like to add fixed income investments to each using ETFs. I am looking at the above mentioned ETFs. Is there a general rule of thumb as to which type of income should go in to various accounts and would XHY and XPF be subject to withholding tax?

Q: XTR iShares Diversified Monthly Income ETF top 10 holdings are iShares Canadian HYBrid Corporate Bd ETF XHB25.78% iShares Floating Rate ETF XFR19.75% iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA ETF XMU18.43% iShares S&P/TSX Composite High Div ETF XEI10.65% iShares US Dividend Grwrs ETF CADH Comm CUD8.78% iShares Canadian Select Dividend ETF XDV8.23% iShares US High Yield Bond ETF CADH XHY4.24% iShares S&P/TSX Cdn Prefr Shr ETF Comm CPD4.07%

XTR charges a MER of .62%. Is this in addition to the MER’s charged by each ETF holding?
Thanks
John

Q: My brother has recently moved his retirement portfolio to CIBC. He’s unhappy with the 1-2.5% fees he’s paying in the CIBC only funds he’s been placed into. Thanks to continuing conversations I’ve had with him about the great advice I receive from 5i he’s interested in your suggestions for a retirement portfolio for a 58 year old who has no company pension. Capital preservation and appropriate diversification would be key (and lower fees, of course!) Given the limited info could you suggest funds that would be a solid basis for this situation. I’ll compare it to the portfolio analytics info, which I found to be absolutely invaluable for my own situation.

Q: Hello,
I need to increase my health care exposure and also diversify into the US .
What is your opinion on these two Etf’s, or would you recommend individual stocks and if so which ones.
Thank you

Q: Hi Peter & 5i staff,
I think my last question got lost in the shuffle, so here goes. My Son has a couple of accounts, an RRSP and a LIRA, each with $135 Thousand. Very little time to manage these accounts so I am doing it for him. Is it advisable to go with all in one ETF's like VGRO, XGRO or ZGRO as the funds are not required for at least 15 years. Any suggestions and advice would be much appreciated. Thanks as always. Ivan

Q: What is your opinion of this ETF

Q: With the recent announcement from Horizons on the release of an ETF that will be built based on exposure to the US marijuana/hemp industries (HMUS on the NEO exchange - trading to begin April 18th, 2019), which ETF would you prefer?

Would you consider the valuations of the Canadian MMJ companies to be more overvalued than the US co's, and if not, what would you believe to be an appropriate ratio if you recommend both ETFs to be held?

Q: Are dividends from USA ETF's held in a RRSP exempt from withholding tax just like USA stocks are? Thanks. Peter

Q: looking ahead the next 6 to 12 months and with safety of principal in mind, how would you rank these fixed income etf's? thanks.

Q: I have 30% of my money in diversified CDN equities and don't need the money for 20 years.
I am not interested in bonds or REITs. I was considering putting the other 70% in the following ETF's.
45% VFV
18% VUN
18% XQQ
11% XEF
8% VEE
This would put around 57% of the total money in the USA. I am fine with that.
The MER would be around 0.18% based on the blend. I know this breaks your rule of keeping less than 25% in one fund. It also places a lot of money in Vanguard - which has been around since 1975, but nothing is for sure. Wondering what you think of this set up and also maybe I could sub out VUN for XUU. This would make 53% Vanguard and 47% iShares. Trading VUN for XUU would lower the MER a little as VUN is 0.16% and XUU is 0.07%

Q: If I were converting into ETFs what sectors should I begin with as it may take some time? Thanks

Q: Hi. I can see that Dave has just asked my question about selling GUD given its current turmoil... so I won't ask that; however, even with keeping GUD I have too little exposure in the health care sector bc I sold JJ in January. Can you provide the names of any Canadian Health Care companies I could check out. Thanks,

Sue

Q: Hello,
Can you please recommend a Canadian dollar equivalent to the following ETF's: VOX, XLV, and RYT. Thank you.

Q: Hi there. In August I became nervous about managing the amount of money I had been and got an investment advisor from the Royal Bank. I then invested half of my savings into their mutual funds. A large chunk of it is in the RBC Select Balanced Portfolio. As this is a mutual fund there is a mer of 1.94%. So question # 1 is: is this a reasonable mer?
I have noticed now that this mutual fund invests in 10 other (mostly RBC) mutual funds. So my second question is: how does this work for the other mers? Who is paying these mers? Am I paying 1.94% plus other hidden fees for the mutual funds within the first mutual fund?

Thanks,
Sue