Investment Q&A

Q: Like FAANG in US and DOCKS of TSX, can you recommend high performing growth stocks in India and China. Thanks for your great advice.

Q: I would like your favorite names that pay a good dividend and look like the growth is still on the upswing.
Would like to live off the income in my retirement.
Thank you Peter & Ryan

Q: How do you expect markets will react if the Democrats take control of both houses in the upcoming elections?

Q: I don't have any FAANG stocks. I want to buy can you please give me in order which one I should buy first. I was also looking at FTEC ETF. Do you recommend this ETF or would you recommend another one?

Thanks for your great service.
Hector

Q: Hello 5i Team

The passive index fund industry is dominated by BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. Seen together, these three giant, passive asset managers already constitute the largest shareholder in at least 40 percent of all U.S. listed companies and 88 percent of the S&P 500 firms. What are your thoughts in terms of the big three controlling the corporations and what happens when there is a market correction or meltdown. Would there be any buyers left and also individual stock investors could get into deep trouble.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30AD689509AAD62F5B677E916C28C4B6/S1469356917000064a.pdf/hidden_power_of_the_big_three_passive_index_funds_reconcentration_of_corporate_ownership_and_new_financial_risk.pdf

Appreciate the good work done by 5i team.

Thanks
Ninad

Q: FOR CASH PART OF PORTOFOLIO YOU SUGGEST BONDS AND SOME MMF OR GIC
IN MY PORTOFOLIO I HAVE :
CDP-5 YEARS RETURN - 13.19% ( MINUS )
VAB 5 YEARS RETURN +1.35 % (PLUS )
TD MMF (165 ) 5 YEAR RETURN 3.54% (PLUS )
THESE ARE FIGURES FRON GLOBE AND MAIL 5 YEAR RETURN.
IT SEEMS MONEY MARKET FUND HAS BETER RETURN AN NO LOSS (EXCEPT INFLATION ) AND LESS WORRY.
I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENT.EBRAHIM

Q: This is a comment on William's question this morning regarding tracking of distributions. I have an account with TD Waterhouse and they provide distribution projection for each month for the coming twelve months for the securities in my account. He can ask his broker if they provide a similar report.

Q: I use BMO investorline. A good service, but not user friendly when it comes to tracking monthly/quarterly dividend payments. Any recommendation on good software to help us keep track at a glance as to received and projected dividend payments?

Q: Hello team,

I have been wanting to ask you this question about the relationship between share price, dividend, and yield. I am going to use KWH-UN whose current SP, annual dividend, and yield are $6.01, $0.82, and 13.56%, respectively.

Suppose I buy 1000 shares of KWH. I understand my purchase will cost me $6010.00 and I shall earn $820 in dividend after a year on this investment which amounts to 13.65% of my purchase price. Now let's say that in the second year share price increases to $8.00 and the company continues to pay $0.82/share in which case my investment yield is still at 13.65% but that of a new investor will be 10.25%. Is my understanding correct?

If I am correct then, it is no-brainer that one should buy a company like KWH or ENB when they are in some sort of predicaments but have proven reliable in maintaining their dividend over time. The reward will be higher yield for the contrarian/patient investor if the company continues to pay the same amount of dividend per share.

Hope I am getting it but I am sure you let me know wherever I am going wrong on this....Thanks as always!

Now back to reading more of the questions/answers on 5i site...

Q: Hi Ryan and Peter
which of the two funds would you choose for a long term hold (10 years) for my 21 year old son?
RBF 1030 RBC Life Science and Technology Fund Series D MER 1.21%
or
RBF 1042 RBC Global Technology Fund Series D MER 1.27%
or
any other funds that you would pick would be appreciated.
Thank you for all you do for investors
Ron

Q: Is it necessary to wait 30 days to rebuy same stocks in tfsp.Thanks

Q: Can you provide the name of a good/liquid Canadian and US money market fund? I am looking for a place to park cash.

Thanks in advance.

DON

Q: my RRIF has been disaster because I own utilities for dividend:
ALA down 4.4%,BCE down 4.8%KWH.UN down 38% ECI down 10.39%EIF 13,15%CPD down1%Cash 26%
MY utility portion of my total portfolio are mainly these.I also have Fortis and BEP.UN. CU,ENB,ALGONQUIN
The total utility of my portfolio is 3%
I appreciate your suggestion.ebrahim

Q: Is there an ETF that matches the 5iResearch's balanced equity portfolio.

Q: ANALYST PREDICT THE PRICE OF A STOCK AND ACCORDING TO BNN OR OTHERS THEY GIVE A FIGURE FOR EXAMPLE 12 BUY,, 8 SELL AND 2 HOLD.SUPPOSE A STOCK HAS REACHED THE PREDICTED PRICE WHAT AN INVESTOR SHOULD DO. I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENT.EBRAHIM

Q: Is there a financial ratio or ratios that can give an indication of the risk in a stock price to changes in sales? I have been looking at operational gearing which tells you how sensitive profits are to reduction in sales. I also read that a high debt to shareholders equity means that changes in profits have a large influence in share price. Not sure I understand why that would be the case. Could you comment on both these measures please and maybe suggest others.

Q: This is important to me. I currently have 42 stocks in my rsp at 452k. I tried for an evaluation years ago thru 5i but I an not a computer guy and couldn't do the excel stuff and an not interested in outsiders knowing my business.
At 66 I want to manage about 10 high paying dividend stocks as apposed to giving my life savings to a stranger. I realize that you are not an advisory service but I would like concrete recommendations for my question. (452k worth if possible) Thank You. James

Q: Hi All at 5i! Hope you are enjoying the summer! I was wondering if you could recommend a book ( or other source) on investing for a total novice. A friend of my son has started on his working career and has accumulated some money. He has no knowledge of investing and would like to start learning about the topic. I recommended 5i to him, and he is considering joining after he has a rudimentary understanding of the world of investing. Hope you can help . Cheers, Tamara

Q: I seem to recall that there was a list of all companies upon which 5I had generated reports -- but for the life of me, I can't find it. (I simply keep landing on the Reports page, where each company has to be called up individually.) Did this list disappear with the new website features -- or am I simply not looking in the right place? Thanks.

Q: Dear Mr. Hodson and Mr. Modesto,

I'm helping a friend construct a portfolio worth $375,900. She is a single mother who is planning to retire in a few years. All her children have grown up and no longer require financial support.

Besides CPP and OAS, she also has some other income from other source and wish to supplement her spending with dividend income from the portfolio. She's asked me to help her to contruct a moderate growth portfolio. She said a yearly dividend income of $10000 will be sufficient.

Now, her trading accounts have:
BCE- 73%, SLF- 12%, BMO - 11%, Cash - 4%

Here are my questions. Please deduct as many credit as you wish from my question credits.

Her new portfolio will generate a yearly dividend income of $12954 (yield 3.44%) from $375,900.

Financial -22% - keep the BMO(11%), SLF(12%)
Utitility -16% - AQN, BEP.UN, H, KWH.UN
Energy -10% - ENB, WCP, PKI or TRP
Consumer -16% - PBH, ATD.B, DOL, TSGI
Industrial -11% - NFI, WSP, TCL.A
Health - 4% - CSH.UN, GUD
Technology - 12%- CSU, ARKW, Please suggest: Nasdaq index?
Telecomm - 6% - BCE
Cash - 3%

My questions are:
1) For a moderate growth portfolio, is the sector allocation appropriate?
2) Do I need to further diversify BMO and SLF?
3) In each sector, do you have any suggestions for the right stocks? Feel free to add or delete.
4) Please let me know which stocks you would recommend to add first?
5) For a person close to retirement age and no experience investing in US, is it necessary for her to invest abroad? What's your opinion?
6) All the above proposed stocks, which growth stocks should go into the TFSA? What are your top 5 picks among the growth stocks above?

Thanks as always
Esther