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Q: How often do you think an average investor, long-term focused, should check prices of stocks in their portfolio?
What about for a long-term investor who also considers momentum in buy-sell decisions?
Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Martin on December 11, 2024
Q: I recently purchased S24 Ultra, and transferred all data from previous phone, however 5i site did not tsf over. I have gone through the play store, but does not have a 5i site. Can you please assist on how to get your site on my phone.
Thanks in advance
Rick
Read Answer Asked by Rick on December 11, 2024
Q: Retired (70 yrs old), dividend-income investor. Been meaning to ask this question for a long time. We run a concentrated portfolio of roughly 10 ETFs and 10 stocks, plus fixed income on top. Our pro-rated MER for the equity ETFs is 0.64 and for the entire portfolio is 0.38.

I use the ETFs above that are sector ETFs (like HHL, NNRG, XIT) as my proxy for the sector and am ok with the trade off of paying fees for a sector ETF instead of having lots of stocks.

I then add my individual stock selections to achieve my targeted Asset Allocation for the entire portfolio (like AD, BCE, FTS, GSY, RY, NWC, PBH, TRP, WSP, etc). I weight each of these relative to my risk tolerance.

Does this make sense to you? Does my "sector ETF" make sense, especially with a potentially large weighting in one ETF. Virtually all of my ETFs are capped at around 7% of the equity portfolio and the stocks are capped at 5% max.

Your thoughts on my strategy and on my MER....thanks...Steve
Read Answer Asked by Stephen on December 10, 2024
Q: I'm curious about companies that have been rather lacklustre but somehow have experienced some catalyst that has allowed them to gain their footing once again and recently started to move up in value considerably. Not worried about size of company nor what sector they are in could you suggest 5 Canadian and 5 American companies that fit the bill.
Read Answer Asked by Les on December 10, 2024
Q: Please rank the following for purchasing (10years +)
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Ben on December 10, 2024
Q: Greetings 5i, doing some rebalancing and would like to add to 2 or 3 of the above positions. This is a RRSP account, all long term holds. In what order would you add today? Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Barbara on December 10, 2024
Q: Could you please clarify your answer to Bruce Dec 5. In your answer you first say NVDIA as the 'if we have to pick one' but then you go on to say if an investor is looking at only one, you say you would be picking BN should be the investors choice if choosing only one ?????
Also, the ranking doesn't seem to match up with those comments...please expand.
Read Answer Asked by Alexandra on December 09, 2024
Q: Hello 5i!

Psychologically, I struggle to add to positions that have already gone up so much. I have positions in ATD, DOL, WELL, ENB, GSY, DCBO, LMN, TOI, CSU, PRL, TCS, VHI, HPS.A (as well as some others) and have some cash to deploy and weightings to adjust. I would like to know which of these positions would you feel most comfortable adding to positions at their current levels. Do any of them stand out more than others as opportunities to accumulate?

Thanks for all you do and best wishes for the holiday season!
Read Answer Asked by Josh on December 09, 2024
Q: Today Peter requested "a list of companies domiciled in Canada but pay dividends in USD". Would it be reasonable to consider that those companies have would not be affected by tariffs imposed by the US?
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on December 05, 2024
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