Investment Q&A

Q: How significant is the US antitrust issue for Google and Amazon?

Q: Does 5I have a favorite Cannabis stock? Thanks, Bill

Q: What would you consider a fair share price for NTR?
Thanks: Jerry

Q: does a person sell buy more or stay pat with the big downward movement lately

Q: The price is at 52 weeks low. Is it over-sold ? Please commend. Thanks a lot.

Q: Can you tell me what the expected growth rate is for BAD for the next year?

Q: Hello, Within a long term hold rsp account, would there be a benefit to adding FTS to a portfolio with ENB and AQN already owned? Thanks

Q: Thinking of 3-4 year play in some combination of this group. Risk is not the primary concern. Is this a viable strategy for a small portfolio segregated from other assets? What combination, if any, would you recommend? AYX momentum seems to be slowing. Is that a concern from your perspective?

Q: over 12% drop today. are you aware of any info that caused this fall in value?
Ed in Montreal

Q: Hi there,

Now that the pricing of the shares has been announced, would you take this opportunity to start a position in the name? What percentage of a portfolio would be best suited for DSG?

Thanks!

Q: Good morning:
Getting hammered on this one, down 26 percent, should I continue to hold for the long haul.
Thx
Mark

Q: Regarding the share issue, where is this announced?
I can not find it on the web site, it seems to be a very unfriendly investor move that is not very public. I like the company alot but this is very annoying. I am still not clear about what will happen tomorrow, How many shares will be issued and how much dilution will occur.
Thanks, Peter

Q: Is there a price attached to Descartes share offering?

Q: I am interested in buying Americas Silver Corp. Do you think this is a good investment? I have no precious metal or mining investments in my portfolio.

Appreciate your advice.
Susan

Q: Could yo comment on Descartes share offering announcement and why they would go public without pricing the offering before hand. Seems like a counter productive move in view of the current price drop.
Mark

Q: Descartes has dropped about 10% in 5 days, I thought the last quarter was good. Is there something that is not obvious going on? thanks, Peter

Q: In reading Jason Heath's article in the Moneysaver he comments that there is no US withholding tax on US ETF's held in an RRSP, but there is withholding tax on the Canadian equivalent. I am in the process of rearranging our RRIFS and have been switching to more ETFs, including US based ones. Many ETFs have both a Canadian dollar and a US dollar version of the same fund. For convenience, to avoid opening a US dollar RRIF component, I elected to go with the Canadian equivalent.

Does the withholding tax also apply to RRIFs as well as RRSPs. If so it follows that perhaps I should convert a portion of our RRIF to US dollars and then purchase the US based ETFs in that account. It is not difficult to do, just a bit inconvenient.
Your thoughts please.
Russell

Q: I'd like to simplify my rrsp and have a constant stream of income. I was thinking of selling my 30 stock over weight in canada and buy 5 or 6 ETF. Making easier to manage and have more investment outside of Canada. Do you like ZWC 20% weighting Ca, ZWH,20% weighting Us , ZWP20% weighting Eur , ZQQ 20% weighting Global tech company and Maybe ZRE for last 20% because reits usually goes up in a negative market. Please give me your opinion on my ETFs and your 6 picks would be? take as many question credit needed. Income and diversification globally are my goal.

Q: I have been looking for ways of boosting my income investments; last year I doubled my GIC's (still less than 10% of investments). This year I'm thinking of buying some preferred shares. They have been doing abysmally; many of the yearly lows are of prefs!
I recall the 1980's when long term bonds looked like a sure way to lose money. Investment grade credits paid over 10% interest for 30 years! I'm thinking out-of-fashion preferreds might be a great investment today (with less upside than 1980 bonds, of course).

John

Q: Hi Team
What do you think about reitmans?, is the sell off over done?. I know they missed earnings and bricks and mortar retail is in the penalty box, but they have little or no debt, I believe, and have assets. What do you think, should I average down or just let it play out?