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Q: Hi 5i Team,

I'm looking for an ETF that would be similar to VE, to invest in Europe, that I could purchase with US funds in an RRSP. I would like the dividend/payout to be at least as high as VE. I might even prefer an ETF with top quality companies in Europe (e.g., top 50, or 100) with a tilt towards industrials/consumer disc/staples, if something like that exists with a decent payout? I'm already overweight in financials and US tech.

I'd appreciate any ideas you might have.

Thank you,
Lisa
Read Answer Asked by Lisa on February 26, 2025
Q: What is your top Canadian REIT ETF?

What is your top Canadian preferred shares ETF?

Is this is a good time to add these to a portfolio?
Read Answer Asked by Carla on February 26, 2025
Q: Can you recommend 2 or 3 Canadian and US bond ETF's (or any other fixed income) that have higher yields (5+%)?
Read Answer Asked by David on February 25, 2025
Q: Hi there. With the recent uncertainty in the markets, what is your opinion on HYLD.CA?
Does it make sense to be more diversified when deploying new money in this current environment and have a larger amount of investable capital in ETF type funds that pay higher yields- as opposed to individual names? Do you see the Canadian dollar gaining some strength as we head further into 2025?

Thank-you as always!
Read Answer Asked by Lesley on February 25, 2025
Q: Can you please share your favourite ETF for Dow Jones, S&P500 and TSX

Please share in CDN dollars hedge and unhedged. Plus in USA dollars

Thanks for the great service.
Read Answer Asked by Hector on February 25, 2025
Q: I am seeing higher yields on HISA ETFs vs bond ETFs. Is this right? If so--it seems like unless you want to bet on bonds going up, HISAs are the better option right now for conservative money. What do you think?
Read Answer Asked by Chris on February 25, 2025
Q: Hello 5i
Thank for your detailed reply to my question re: QQQI. As a follow up question, can you give me an indication of how much variability is in the dividend and what would cause this.?
IE: In a large market decline the fund will still decline a lot but it will pay a healthy dividend while I wait or maybe it won’t?
Thank you so much!
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on February 25, 2025
Q: I sold my individual dividend stocks and am replacing them with an ETF for simplicity. How would you rate/compare these dividendETFS? Which two do you prefer? I'll put 1 in my rrsp and a another in my TFSA. I am diversified in other countries already. I'm thinking XDIV and XEI might be the safest?
Read Answer Asked by Carla on February 24, 2025
Q: Looking to buy a canadian dividend etf as one of my core holdings. Do you like VDY or XDV? What are the differences? Or is there another canadian dividend ETF you would recommend?
Read Answer Asked by Carla on February 24, 2025
Q: Pleas recommendation 4 ir 5 Cdn ETFS wuith a good yield and moderate risk. Thanks
Read Answer Asked by gary on February 24, 2025
Q: (1) Can you suggest an ETF similar to FEZ but that includes companies outside the Eurozone (i.e. includes Swiss, Swedish and UK companies). I am looking for an ETF that favors large caps, preferably holds not more than a hundred companies. IEV is the closest I could find but it holds over 360 companies. And VGK has over a thousand (>1200).

(2) Am I wrong to think that holding hundreds of companies tends to dilute an ETF’s performance?
Read Answer Asked by Adam on February 24, 2025
Q: How would you invest in the Defence sector at this time? And would you? On that theme what do you think of BAE in comparison to others in the sector? And are there ETF’s which would be appropriate?
Read Answer Asked by James on February 24, 2025
Q: Hello 5i Team,
Currently building out a small portfolio for my son, with a VERY long time horizon (30 years +). Looking to add U.S. exposure, but instead of picking individual names, I thought I would do this through an ETF or two. Was considering putting 50% of the US exposure into SPY, and the other half into VGG. An alternative to SPY would be ZSP, which I can buy in Cdn. dollars in Toronto. Your thoughts on this strategy and the allocations?
Thanks very much!
Read Answer Asked by Brian on February 24, 2025
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