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Q: Hope all is well! Can you please walk me through the PSTH SPAC? From my understanding, units were originally sold at $20 and each unit consists of one share of common stock and a warrant for one-ninth of a share. With PSTH now at $25.40, if the market hates their proposed deal can you walk me through downside scenarios?
If shareholders vote down the eventual deal or there is no deal before deadline can you redeem for $20 and have a max loss of $5.40?
Is it correct to assume that the only way to lose more than $5.40 would be if the market doesn’t like the deal, shareholders still approve the deal ($20 floor goes away) and then the stock drifts lower on the back of company prospects?
I am interested because of Ackman involvement and the high implied vol on the shares in the options market. I am considering various bullish strategies (selling puts, risk reversals and covered calls) but just trying to develop a clear understanding of downside risks if the market hates their deal, shareholders vote down the deal or no deal happens.
I see the $23 strike warrants trading for around $9.20 with an 07/24/2025 expiration date, do only original unitholders get warrants or will unitholders that buy today and hold through a deal get a warrant for every 9 shares?
Thanks for your guidance!
Read Answer Asked by Angus on December 03, 2020
Q: I am considering harvesting a current loss in QSR and reinvesting the proceeds in PBH. For a long term investor, which company do you think will offer the better overall return ( dividend plus assumed capital growth) over time and please explain why. Many thanks

al
Read Answer Asked by alex on December 03, 2020
Q: My wife and I both have DC pension plans with our respective employers (with company matching), and generally buy into low-cost index funds that are available to us.

We each also have LIRAs (with pension funds from our previous employers), and for these buckets of funds we would like to buy mutual funds to benefit from good quality active management. MAW150 and DYN245 are two funds that have jumped out to us - if we were to buy these two funds alone, would a 50/50 split in each of our LIRAs be reasonable, in terms of diversification (both sector and geographic allocation)? We would be looking to buy and hold for a long period of time (~20 years).
Read Answer Asked by Keith on December 03, 2020
Q: What are your thoughts on Pacific Gas & Electric now that it has exited bankruptcy after the wildfires caused by their equipment?
I see a new CEO, new board and was interested to see that it is now David Tepper's largest position at Appaloosa, Dan Loeb's largest position at Third Point and Baupost just made it a top ten position. Is this a good rebound play as California's largest utility? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Angus on December 03, 2020
Q: I submitted a question on this company, previously known as CB2 Insights (ticker: CBII), but not sure if it’s still in the queue or got missed. Sending it again just in case.

What are your thoughts on their recent earnings report and overall outlook?

Their primary business currently is providing subscription healthcare. I find it interesting that they’re a Canadian company running clinics entirely in the US. They claim profits are much easier to attain with US clinics as they don’t need to share revenue with the physicians. The doctors are only paid a salary.
Read Answer Asked by Laxmyharan on December 03, 2020
Q: Hi there
When you took ENGH out of model portfolio I bought OTEX which has outperformed it by quite a bit in the last 3 years. I still really like ENGH too and it has come off quite a bit lately. I am wondering looking out another 3 years which you would prefer, in terms of current valuation and prospects, if you could just buy one of these stocks. And your rationale.

Much thanks

Stuart
Read Answer Asked by Stuart on December 03, 2020
Q: Hi 5i team,
The market is not very impressed with either CRM’s guidance and/or purchase of WORK. This pits CRM directly against MSFT in the work collaboration space. Is this a wise move by CRM? Is this a good entry point for CRM or is MSFT the better long-term bet?
Thanks again for the insight.
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on December 02, 2020
Q: Hi Group Ronald asked a question on Physical gold bullion within the question was a statement that paper gold and silver will become worthless? you appeared to agree with this . Did I read that correctly should we only hold gold bullion to be 100% safe please explain I own the following AEM, FNV, MAG,GDXJ, GDX, WDO, EQX, SIL, USA please advise to hold or sell /convert to gold bullion/physical gold only Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Terence on December 02, 2020
Q: I have done well with Canadian micro and small caps over the past 25 years , in large part because that is where I have found the biggest growth opportunities as the share prices are often not at all reflective of the actual and potential earnings. There seems to be far fewer opportunities in Canada (ex commodities) to make largish investments ( minimum of $50,0000) and am looking to American micro and small caps. From your experience would you say that there are much more opportunities to find bargains in the US exchanges or are American investors more aggressive and bigger risk takers so that there is less mispricing?
Tangentially, it would be educational for me to see how the 5i team goes developing a thesis for purchasing a stock.
Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Murray on December 02, 2020
Q: I am heavily weighted in Brookfield right now (BPY, BEP, BEPC)– across all my accounts they are at 15% of my holdings, largely due to the great run BEP as been on. I'm looking re-balance and am considering two choices: (1) I could dump my entire BPY stock (I'm down roughly 20%) which would reducing my overall Brookfield holdings by 4%, or (2) I could take some profit from BEP to do the same, leaving BPY in the hopes I recover some of that loss.

Which would you recommend?
Read Answer Asked by Alex on December 02, 2020