Investment Q&A

Q: Hello Team,

I have a regular CDN TFSA, with $43,000 invested, and i have a portion of cash allotted to a USD TFSA with $15000 invested. Between the two i need to generate safely with minimal risk $300 dollars per month? Can you suggest some income producing strategies that could help me obtain my goal? please include some equities.

Are the US and the CDN TFSA'S treated the same for tax purposes, when withdrawing investment income? charge me as a two part question!

Thanks,
Stephen

Q: Hi Team,

My 24 year old son has a TFSA with a 3-5 year time horizon. He holds the following stocks: DSG, WCN, ATD.B, SYZ, GUD, SJ, GWO, XTC, CGI.A. Is there any stocks in this portfolio that you would exit? If so, what stocks would you replace the holding with? Thanks, Ian


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Q: Hello Peter, I have cash in my TFSA to invest. In addition to a diversified RRSP, my TFSA already has significant holdings in Google, Winpak, ZWB and the Agellan REIT (which have all done very well over the past few years).
Can you please suggest three 'growthier' ideas for new additions to the TFSA. I can accept a fair degree of risk, but not really interested in "long shots". (My gambling instinct was wrung out of me after my foray into Guestlogix - just a bad memory at this point). Thank you!

Q: I have a reasonably well-balanced portfolio encompassing many 5i suggestions. I have recently opened a TFSA account and would like your assessment of the above for immediate purchase in that account.
Thanks for your assistance.
Geoff

Q: My first year of my 5 year GIC ladder is due.I have $20,000 /year in GIC's most at 2.75%.Oaken is still maintaining the renewal 5 yr. GIC rate at 2.75% I have a good pension, cash in the bank and debt free. I am 71 with a balanced value /income portfolio.
Should I continue the 5 year ladder within our TFSA ($9000) or add to my ENB, BCE, CSH and NWC?
Thanx
Stanley

Q: I want to setup TFSA account for my son. He will invest 11K equal weight in each below 5 stocks.
SIS, SHOP, CCLB, CSH.UN, TD.

Do you think above stocks is good choice to start or would you recommend something else or ETF.

Q: I hold equal shares of each in my tfsa, please share your thoughts is tweeking required. I have a well balanced portfolio outside the TFSA

Callidus Capital Corp CBL
Dollarama Inc DOL
Exco Technologies Ltd XTC
Inter Pipeline Ltd IPL
Photon Control Inc PHO
Sleep Country Canada ZZZ

Q: What stock or stocks would you recommend for a long term hold in a TFSA? Thanks for your input

Q: My son is in his early 20s and building a portfolio based on your balanced portfolio. He currently holds 11 stocks. He has no industrials, communications and only TOY in the consumer space. We are thinking of selling ADN from his TFSA and replacing it with SIS or PBH as we know you recommend growth stocks in a TFSA. He also has MX in the material sector. Is this a good plan, not necessary, or do you have another suggestion from the above list that you think is better? Thanks

Q: Could you please suggest 4 names to be held in a TFSA, willing to take a medium to high risk, I would not want any names from the balanced equity portfolio.

Q: I am considering the following: selling Royal Bank, BCE and CGI which are in my TFSA plan and then repurchase them in my RRSP plan and at the same time, sell my Amazon and Google which are in my RRSP and repurchase them in my TFSA. The basic reason is having the growth stocks in the TFSA. Does this make sense or are there any consequences?

Thanks,

Bob

Q: Hi 5i Team
We have approximately $80,000.00 US cash to invest. Thinking of buying XHY for income to cover some of our expenses for property we have in US. Would like your opinion. It would be approximately a 5% position of our portfolio. In the event you think it would be a good idea, do we deploy the funds gradually or take the full position at once, obviously it would be based on what is available for purchase. We would probably us our TFSA account. What would you suggest. Thank you. Heather

Q: Hi 5i team,

I am trying to save to retire early or if the doesnt happen then just have much more saved when I do. I know I should max both TFSA for my wife and I, but how much %-wise should I put in a registered vs a non-registered? I'm stilll 14 years away from my ideal retirement date and about 24 from my latest. Right now I have about 30% of my total saving in a non-registered account, and have yet to max out my wifes RRSP but should I just put it all in a registered account then use just the TFSA for liquidity? I'm sorry if the question is not quite within the purpose of 5i, but I do value you guy' opinion highly.

Thank you

Q: Hi Re Rod,s comment has there been a change to the TFSA?
Stan

Q: In a response to a comment of TFSA's you mentioned that the TFSA should be used for growth and not safety. Of course I have a GIC ladder to the tune of $50,000 over 5 years in both our TFSA accounts. Should I take them out of the TFSA accounts? If I do what would be the suggested replacements? Or should I just continue with growth stocks in the upcoming years leaving everything as is? We are in our 70's with 50/50 equity/fixed.
Stanley C.

Q: Just a comment this morning... the Conservative Government, at the time of introduction, should have named TFSA's 'Tax Free Spending Accounts'. The original idea was to allow people to save money so they could then spend it on cars, washing machines, dryers etc. The government has the statistics of whom is using this account and whom is not. It has been the biggest (and best) 'savings' tool since 1956 when they introduced RRSP's. I agree with 5i that if people have made 500K-1M in their TFSA for sure they have taken a chance on companies in the TSX , investing in the country ...good on them.

Q: I read with interest Stan (1)'s comments on TFSA's. Of particular interest was the comment "It appears the gov't wants its cut now."
Could you please reference clearly how specifically the TFSA has now changed, how it could impact us moving forward.
Please include the date of these changes.

Much Appreciated

S.

Q: An observation/rant regarding TFSA accounts.

It appears per the media that the good ol' gov't lied to us CDN.'s about what we could do within a TFSA account or at least set people up so they could get their taxes from people's TFSA (TAX FREE Savings Account) in the future (starting now).

As I understand, the gov't said stock(s) could be bought & owned within a TFSA. But the gov't never said there was a minimum time period that any specific stock had to be held and owned for. So the smart ones who know how to trade during shorter time frames, or put lots of the their TFSA into say, SHOP-tsx, CSU-tsx, KXS-tsx... have grown their TFSA to as much as $1 million dollars and a few have even grown theirs beyond that per the media.

It appears the gov't wants its cut now.

As a long time (decades) investor and trader I take objection to the media and financial world's BS around the issue that "Investing" is holding for a longer time and "Trading" is "Gambling" when done in shorter time frames.

I have always seen Trading and Investing as the same thing. That being, speculating that the stock's price will be higher in the future, (setting aside Shorting) be it, 5 minutes, 5 years or 5 decades. It is an unknown and some may say either is pure speculation or gambling. Both are trading over different time frame periods. That is the only difference. Period.

Technicals and Fundamentals are both used to project (speculate) about the future.

To use a real but just singular & extreme example, of the original big companies from the original DOW only GE remains. So if anyone bought the original DOW (or if there had been a DOW ETF) and "Invested" by holding they would now be on welfare as they would be broke. So Investing is not any better than Trading (knowledge is required to succeed in either).

5iResearch also trades regularly, as do investors like Warren Buffet.

So I wish our gov't, the media and financial industry would stop playing games with us so regular people can make some $$$ so as to support themselves, spend $$ on goods, start businesses to give people employment, ...

Lastly, if those with a TFSA of say $100k, $500k or $1 million have not removed any $$$ from the TFSA are they not SAVING it in a TFSA (Tax Free SAVINGS Account)?

Have a great day!

Q: Re Jim's question 26th June about his daughter's RSP & TFSA.
Don't think she can get the dividend tax credit if shares are held in these accounts. Did I miss something?

Q: First of all,many thanks for your valued services.My granddaughter is starting her first investing at 23 years old and possessing $6000.We assume she should open a TFSA and would like your advice as to what to put into it. Thank you, Anne.