Investment Q&A

Q: WE HOLD THE ABOVE STOCKS IN OUR CHILDS RESP AND HAVE A FEW THOUSAND TO ADD, WE WONDER SHOULD WE ADD TO ONE OF THE ABOVE OR ADD AN ADDITIONAL STOCK. SHE HOLDS ABOUT 10% OF EACH

Q: In the Financial Times on Saturday John Dizard wrote a column more or less saying that BIP was vulnerable to a short attack because of it's corporate structure based in Bermuda. Are you able to comment on the article. It seems that the writer thinks the chances of a short attack are minimal but that there is enough fog to create questions.
Can You give your opinion on his thinking.
I know this is not a straight forward issue to answer but we novice investors learn much when you give your approach. This is much appreciated.

Q: I am considering switching from KWH.un to BIP.un.
I already have Bep.un but no other utilities and a total portfolio position of 7% in utilities.Do you think this is an advisable move? I am 67 with 40 years investing experience.

Q: Hi David,
I'm looking to add three positions to my business passive account -- i'm up 15% year to date.
I have equal weight in each stock and am looking to add more diversity. A combination of income and growth US or Canadian -- minimum $1 billion market cap.

What would you recommend here.
Thanks,
Raymond

Q: I am a retired investor living on dividend income. I recently sold some assets and now have 15% of my portfolio in cash. I want to invest the cash across 5 stocks yielding minimum 3.5%. Can you recommend your top picks regardless of sector.

Q: Could I please have your thoughts and analysis on these companies recently announced earnings. Thank you.

Q: My wife and I are retired and are income investors. We are considering reducing our 35% bank exposure. These investments have done very well over the years and we do not want to reduce the quality of our portfolio, but think that perhaps a little more diversification would be desirable.

We are looking for one or two non-large-cap Canadian companies with a growing dividend/distribution preferably greater than 3.5% for a very long-term if not forever hold. We want to avoid more financials, utilities, and retail, office, industrial, and apartment REITs.

Some possible purchases we have identified are: KPT, ITP, CSH, ZCL, AGU, BIP, HLF, BEP, UFS, BPF, AND NWC.

What do you think of reducing our exposure to banks and buying some non-large-cap companies?

What do you think of our list of possibilities? Do you have any other suggestions? If you have two or three good candidate suggestions that would be great.

As always, thanks!

Q: "I have 300k to invest, I am 65 and plan to live off the dividends. Should I invest all in or do doll cost averaging? What are your recommendations? Thanks so much for the great advice.

Q: Due to a 200+% rise in share price BIP.UN now comprises 21% of my portfolio. As this is a world wide diversified business, is this something I should pare down and if so How much ? The stock continues to perform well and I am having a hard time justifying selling it in favour of diversification.

Q: I would like your opinion on these 2 companies $bip and $bep as buys right now. Which one would you choose? Or would you be tempted to buy both? I also hold a small position In $BAM.A.
If I were to buy all 3 it would represent 6% of my total Portfolio.


Thanks as always,

Valter

Q: I presently hold BIP.UN in a RIF. This is primarily to simplify the tax situation of a limited partnership. Does BAM.A have any tax ramifications other than capital gains if held in a trading account?

Thanks

Ron

Q: Do the dividends of BIP.UN and BIP (US), both qualify as allowable taxable dividends in Canada? Right now I own BIP.UN in a registered CDN$ account but am thinking of switching to BIP (US) in a US$ Cash acnt. And in general is it best to keep a Canadian stock like CSU, which also pays its dividend in US$, in a US$ acnt so that the dividends don't have to get converted each time even though I will have to convert, one time, my total CSU holdings into US$ ?
Much appreciated. Great service!

Q: Hi Peter,
Since Covalan Technologies is a small cap, i was thinking of trading it, but it could turn out to be a long term play. With the recent news, the stock jumped to $4.60 but has been going back and forth between 3.90 and 4.60. My average cost is 3.30. In this cases, should one simply trade it or simply hang on for more profits later given the good news release. Any idea why Pengrowth is surging over the last two days. I am not seeing any recent news and if you are able to access the recent releases, can you suggest a link please? Finally, i am thinking of boosting my GUD and BIP.UN to 5% weights which is my max per stock. Any comments. Thanks very much.

Q: Good afternoon. what ten , large cap, good dividend stocks would you recommend to draw income from. lets say a $1 mill investment.

Q: Which of these companies do you think offer the best overall return (appreciation and dividends) over the next 5-10 years? Thanks

Q: How could Brookfield Infrastructure (BIP) be up 3.8% at the moment on the NYSE while Brookfield Infrastructure(BIP.UN) is down .57%?

Q: Trading in BEP.UN and BIP.UN Friday from 3:30 to 4:00 was frenzied with big price swings which I presume was connected to indexers acquiring BIP and dumping BEP, though I don't understand the thesis, any insight? Since we knew that BIP was going into the TSX 60 well in advance is there an opportunity that we could have taken advantage of, knowing that ETFs would have to be buying shares by a deadline? Thanks, J.

Q: Could you comment on BIP's announcement today and why the new equity raise caused such a large drop in the share price.

Q: Hi Guys
What contributes to the wild swings in BIP.UN stock prices?
Many thxs
Wayne

Q: What do you think about Algonquin's 54% debt to asset ratio? Is this a little high or not bad? I note that it is higher than bep and bip's ratios. With word of them looking at more acquisitions, are they in potential trouble with debt levels if they do so? Thanks.