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Q: Can you name a few securities that you would recommend in an effort to capitalize on the potential bond market opportunity as outlined in your March 16th market report?

Please rank and provide a brief explanation for the ranking.

Read Answer Asked by Simon on April 03, 2023
Q: For high yield ETF's like HMAX, ZWB, JEPI, etc, how is the monthly or quarterly payout taxed - interest, dividend, capital gains? If it varies by ETF on these examples, how is it determined? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Alvin on April 03, 2023
Q: Dear 5i team.

There have been a few questions lately on HMAX vs ZWB and all the responses thus far discuss the upside potential and difference in strategy. What are the downside risks of these two aproaches to their covered call strategies? Has the recent volitility in Banks given us any insights into this part of the question, or are we still in speculate on outcomes mode. If the latter, please provide some educated speculation on impact of continued downward draft in Bank equity prices.

Thanks for your insights.

Arthur.
Read Answer Asked by Arthur on March 31, 2023
Q: Are there any advantages to purchasing an international ETF off of a US exchange in US dollars. My understanding is that withholdings taxes would be the same as Canadian ETF's as long as both ETF's hold individual securities.
Read Answer Asked by Joe on March 31, 2023
Q: Is there an ETF that replicates or comes close to the Beat-The-TSX (BTSX) approach?
I always enjoyed reading David Stanley's and other authors cover the BTSX in the Canadian MoneySaver Magazine.
Thanks
Frank
Read Answer Asked by Frank on March 31, 2023
Q: FLI has a good dividend but it is on its declining share value. It is contradictory in its performance as higher interest is supposed lift Life Ins companies earnings. Please advise what is the way to find out how these ETF burning through capital and do you have alternatives for this sector of financial cos.?
Read Answer Asked by Ritwik on March 30, 2023
Q: I hold these ETFs in both TFSA and RIFF accounts. Every month activity shows dividend in and out with 0$ net result . Tried to get an explanation from the discount broker but no help. Can you illuminate for me why the activity is shown that way?
Many thanks
Read Answer Asked by steve on March 30, 2023
Q: Hello everyone,

I have U.S. cash on the sideline and would like to "park" it short term (3/6 mths), can you suggest where to place 20th$ ?
I need to keep funds in U.S. dollars.
Thanks and all the best !
Read Answer Asked by Sergio on March 30, 2023
Q: Thank you for your reply this morning on my question about ZWB and HMAX . In your reply you indicated a preference for ZWB because of the upside potential being greater . Am I right in assuming that if that is the case HMAX would be the less volatile of the two ?

Also in 2018 I asked 5I to crunch the numbers on the big five banks over the 18 years { 2000 to 2018 }... I would assume that is a long enough segment to determine an average annual return of dividend plus capital gain. The answer I got ranged between 11% on the low end { TD } to 14.3% on the high end { RY }...... Please correct my reasoning but to me it looks like HMAX with its' current 15.1% dividend based on today's cost of the ETF is going to slightly beat those numbers annually, have less volatility, and give me diversification as an added bonus ? ..... Please advise if my reasoning is sound .....Thanks Garth .....
Read Answer Asked by Garth on March 29, 2023
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