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Q: We own 10 preferred shares with BCE,BRF,BPO,NPI,PWF,ENB,CU. Overall we are down considerably on capital loss. But making a good return at these current prices. Question to you is, should we keep preferred shares for the current return or take a loss and sell them. Most are in registered accounts so no tax loss is available.
Read Answer Asked by Vicki on November 04, 2022
Q: I have cash in my US$ RRSP and would like to park it in a ETF like HSAV but I don't want to be clipped by TD if I move the cash to my CDN$ RRSP account. I noticed HYGH.US in your ETF model portfolio but it is not like HSAV. Any suggestions would be greatly welcome or if HYGH is the best then please advise. Thanks again.
Read Answer Asked by Danny-boy on November 04, 2022
Q: Take the growth portfolio as an example, but this could be applied to any of the 3.
Let's say I only want to focus on 5 companies in this portfolio that would make up 100% of my investments could I assume that the top % allocation would be similar to saying these are the ones that we endorse the most? Or is this simply a construct based on the total number of stocks and other factors that you are considering (risk, diversification...). Said differently, how can we use/interpret % allocation of the model portfolios if we are not buying every company in the portfolio? What assumptions can we make, if any? And yes, I understand you can't give direct advice on % allocations as everyone has different levels of risk, goals, etc but simply trying to understand what is the best way to use that information. Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Marco on November 04, 2022
Q: Ottawa to introduce 2% corporate share buyback tax in 2024.

What does this mean exactly & how will it affect investors?

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Ross on November 04, 2022
Q: The federal government is now going to charge companies that do share buybacks a 2% tax starting in 2024. Your thoughts on this and what it will do to share buyback plans by companies such as the energy companies which have been aggressively buying back their stock because it is so undervalued. Major buybacks in 2023 until the tax kicks in? This is obviously going to be a controversial tax - do you think it is something a Conservative government would reverse?
Read Answer Asked by Dan on November 04, 2022
Q: On October 31 the answer to a question I read compared LNTH to LLY as LNTH was a lot cheaper and would have more upside than LLY and big named actors were using the product as opposed to plastic surgery. Then I read very recently Peter's 5 2022 best percentage gains as having Lantheus Holdings (LNTH) first as he seemed very upbeat on it and mentioned it could pause a bit after having all these gains. Here I am 3 days into owning it and it is down over 12%. I read on my online account Nov 3 earnings were reasonably good but I also read on BNN Bloomberg that their earnings were not coming out until later so am I right about the earnings coming out today and were they worse than what I interpreted? I cannot interpret these earnings reports like 5i can. After being down that much in such a short period of time, I am wondering if I should sell or hold? Thank you,
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on November 04, 2022
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