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Q: Hi, retired 68 and living off my investments. No pension except CPP. Cannot collect OAS. Portfolio is stocks and fixed income about 70/30. Getting tired of worrying about individual stocks. Spouse not familiar with managing investments and simplification would be good if I passed. So was thinking of selling all and buying VBAL or similar. Leaning to XBAL due to better yield and returns. Questions:
1. in one of your posts you said you prefer to limit exposure to single ETFs. Please elaborate why. Would some protection be obtained with a 50/50 mix of VBAL and XBAL?
2. With North American markets at all time highs would this be a good time to do this or would some other time, such as a market downturn be better. Most of the funds are in registered funds so tax is not really an issue.
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by MANFRED on October 23, 2024
Q: Building the bond part of my investments. What proportion would you allocate to each of the four indicated. 2-What is the difference between XSB and XBB? 3- Do you consider OK to allocate some XHY as a bond equivalent?

Thanks for your great service.

Yves
Read Answer Asked by Yves on October 23, 2024
Q: Would you consider Guardian Ult-Shrt US TB USD ETF (US $ denom) to be one of the safest ways to hold USD? Last monthly interest payment was 5% annualized which is quite favourable … seems others may not offer higher rates.

Initially the plan was at sub 4.5% level to put this cash elsewhere but with declining US Bond prices I am now wondering how quickly rates may move lower and am wondering if we may experience a diverging interest rate environment between Cda n US rates. What’s the likelihood we could see such divergence n is there a point where the effect of a weakening Canadian dlr would limit further divergence (we are weak at 72.5 exch now but recall a lo of 68 many years ago).

Read Answer Asked by Craig on October 23, 2024
Q: I want to keep a portion of my money in safer/ income producing assets. I have a sum of money in a high interest cash account > 4.25%. What is the difference between the 2? Would it not make sense to keep all the money in the cash acct? Or what would the pros and cons of this be?
Read Answer Asked by Danielle on October 23, 2024
Q: Hello. What are the ETFs available to trade/cover the uranium and nuclear space? Any aside from URA, HURA, URNM, NLR and NUKZ?

Can you rank the top three and provide some commentary on each? Seems like NLR is winning the year to date performance race.

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Robert on October 23, 2024
Q: I’m considering whether I should invest in TLT, HPYT, or a combination of both. I understand that HPYT has a much higher yield, but I’m struggling to fully understand why. TLT, which makes up around 70% of HPYT’s holdings, only has a yield of about 4.3%, which makes me wonder how HPYT can achieve such a significantly higher yield. I understand the basics of covered call ETFs, but what kind of options are they trading to generate this yield? There seems to be something I’m missing here—could you also explain the additional risks that come with HPYT's elevated yield?
Read Answer Asked by Patrick on October 22, 2024
Q: Do you have an opinion on BMO buffer etfs. Appropriate for a RIF ?
Read Answer Asked by edward on October 21, 2024
Q: Hi Guys Looking for your recommendations on a crypto ETF. Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Ray on October 21, 2024
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