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Q: Hi there,

Looking to add an infrastructure co.,to my US portfolio. If you had to buy one today which one would you prefer. My thinking is that Brookfield is more stable, better managed and won't see the dividend surprises that we saw with McQuarrie. However, MIC is significantly cheaper and better value at this time. Looks like undelying assets in both companies seem high quality, diversified? Any help would be appreciated.
Read Answer Asked by kelly on October 17, 2018
Q: Please could you provide the payout ratio for these companies - BEP.UN, BIP.UN, BAM.A, BPY.UN.

Any concerns you see with the current payout ratios?

Please feel free to deduct as many credits.

Thank you so much for your valuable service.
Read Answer Asked by Shivam on October 04, 2018
Q: In my husbands lif account we are going to need to replace enercare with safe dividend stocks. Sectors are not important. Current holdings are : A and W, BGI.un, Crius, Gamehost, RNW. Current dividends are greater than the withdrawal. We would be looking to add stocks whose dividends would be reasonable safe in an economic slow down.
How do you feel about the following strategy and please feel free to offer other suggestions or comments:
Bip.un, Bce, Alta gas, Bns-
Either fortis or Aqn
And then something with growth potential such as a corby ( as it has no debt) or transcontinental ?
We are also open to other suggestions.
Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Maggie on October 01, 2018
Q: With ECI being bought out, are there similar companies (in terms of yield and maybe a bit of growth) that I can consider moving the money to?
Read Answer Asked by Victor on September 14, 2018
Q: Hi, I sold Enercare and was wondering how I should replace it.
My portfolio is built with mostly large caps and some titles from your BE and Income portfolios. I am retired and depend partly on dividend. Here is the portfolio breakdown:
Consumer defensive 10,31 %
Energy 13,16 %
Utilities 11,05 %
Telecom 11,56%
Reit 0,76%
Financial 24,38%
Healthcare US 3,53%
Industrial 6,85%
Consumer-non cyclical 0,44%
Consumer cyclical 2,67%
Tech US 4,20%
Diversified 0,42%
Basic materials 1,84%
Fixed income 3,44%
Equity Canada(ETF) 1,80%

CASH 3,59 %
Total 100,00
Read Answer Asked by Serge on September 10, 2018
Q: I would like to get both these stocks up to 5% levels within my portfolio. I'm quite sure you are fine with these two businesses. However, being aware that the Brookfield accounting methods sometimes get negative comments, would owning a total of 10% weighting within the Brookfield family concern you?

Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by James on September 04, 2018
Q: For a 8/10 year time period and about $20,000 what 4/5 stocks would you recommend for high dividend and security, including banks and others in order of preference.
Many thanks as always.
Harold
Read Answer Asked by Harold on August 31, 2018
Q: What are your top 10 defensive canadian stocks that, in your opinion, will best weather a significant economic downturn and/or market correction.
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by John on August 27, 2018
Q: Hi Peter. Seems like a good idea to let my shares of ECI roll over into BIP.UN. It's in a TFSA. Keep collecting the ECI dividend, pay no fees, and have roughly the same dividend when converted to BIP.UN. What could go wrong? Deal not going through, not all my shares being converted, anything else? As to sector allocation, does it really matter that I go underweight Consumer and overweight utilities?
Thanks so much for this and PUR!
Read Answer Asked by Robert on August 07, 2018
Q: Hello Peter,
What do you think about the joint venture between Hydropothecary and Molson's? Does this put Hydropothecary in the same category with Canopy (with Constellation equity) in terms of market perception? Aphria's results look fine, but why is the stock down? Is Brookfield Infrastructure a good buy given its takeover over of Enercare? Also, i noticed from BNN guests who are considered value investors that all of them had vary different views on Enercare from dont buy to hold to top pick. Can you shed some light as to why the views are so different given they all look at fundamentals? Lastly, what is happening with Grande West. It goes up and than back down again. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by umedali on August 02, 2018