Investment Q&A

Q: Considering MFC position or SLF position, next week. MFC appears to have the better cash / share price ratio (29 vs 20), greater pullback from 52 wk high (16.5% vs 8.4%) and a slightly better dividend yield (3.79% vs 3.69%). SLF appears to have a tighter standard deviation than MFC, since 2012. I've seen past Q/A stating you prefer SLF over MFC. Your thoughts on these two life insure co's or other life insure co's would be appreciated.

Q: Hi Ryan & Peter
My name is George and I will be 55 this month and I have a total of 4,000,000 to invest.
I need $ 100,000 in income for cost of living expenses.
I have 2 accounts
Holding 2M in investment account (1.44 M, 500K RRSP & 60K TFSA )
Holding 2M in holding company that I use to pay me a monthly income of $8,000

How would you put together the 2 portfolio’s and what stocks would you choose for each account.

George-
Inv acc
RRSP
TFSA

Holdco-

Please deduct as many points as needed ( I hope this question helps many baby boomers with cash )

Thank you & keep up the great work

Q: Any reason for the drop today?
When are earnings expected and what is consensus?
Thanks

Q: Hi, I like all the individual Brookfield entities and there nice dividends in most cases.If I like all 5 individuals that I follow what is more prudent... buying Bam.a as itself or all 5 .would return including dividend be the same?

Q: Tax loss selling

Would you please clarify the 30 day wait period before repurchasing shares sold for tax loss purchases. I sold shares on Aug 31 which closed on Sept. 5. Which day can I buy them back? Thanks for your great service.

Q: Hi Peter/Ryan,

I was holding off buying MG and NFI because of NAFTA disagreements. Now that it is a done deal is it a good time to buy these stocks or future recession may have a bigger impact on the auto sector. They are trading close to 52 week low. Magna has dropped by almost $10 since July.
Appreciate your advice.

Thanks
Ninad

Q: I've been a long time (over 10 years) owner of NLY and have added to the position several times. I'm considering adding to it again. The dividend is very high but they seem able to handle it. I had thought they would benefit from rising interest rates in the states but they seemed unaffected as the rates rose. My adviser says that it likely doesn't appreciate in price due to the fact that many investors just don't understand their business. I would be happy if all I ever made on this was the current dividend.
Do you have any insight here?

Q: I am retired and try to have a portfolio that pays me a dividend, is relatively safe and shows a little growth. My portfolio is primarily made up of banks, pipelines, telecoms and utilities. I own these listed utilities but am wondering if I have too much overlap. If you were to recommend selling one of them, which one would it be ?

Ken

Q: What Canadian stocks do you recommend picking up with the new nafta agreement?

Q: Regarding Fraser's question about forward P/E.. Morningstar does provide forward P/E for free.

Q: I want to buy some natural gas companies that will benefit from the construction of the Kitimat NGL plant, do you have any suggestions?

Q: Hi team,

They both have bounced due to LNG (still) speculative developments. Would you wait a few months or would you buy now? BDI used to be your favourite. Which one would you choose now? Why?

Have a wonderful weekend!

Q: I am looking to buy 3 or 4 American large caps, dividend paying, with at least moderate growth. I already own MCFT, DWDP, UTX, GLW, INTC. Any suggestions?? Thanks Jim

Q: I'm in the process of trimming my portfolio of over 40 companies and building cash. Both Major Drilling Grp and Cathedral Energy Services are candidates for removal. How do you feel about these companies, should they be sold? Would you put the money in cash or what would you buy in their place, in the same sectors?

Many Thanks

Q: Which 5 companies stand to benefit the most assuming Shell's Canada LNG Project goes ahead? Thank you.

Q: I have 7% of my portfolio in ENB. Should I be concerned about dividends and further erosion in capital? For 2 to 5 years, should I hold it or sell it partially or in full? In case of selling, what should I replace with - a good dividend player with a moderate capital appreciation at medium risk? Thank you.

Q: The recent Shell contract, and the potential for a LNG go-ahead have me wondering about the potential for some gains here. They seem to be building a significant business and drilling should be stable/growing if LNG is a go. Your thoughts would be appreciated....

Q: sorry my previous question wasn't specific enough but do you have any thoughts on the recently passed resolution on the change in share structure.

Q: What is your long term view

Q: There was a discussion on a financial network with a portfolio manager regarding future rate increases. The expectation is that rates will likely be increased 3 to 4 times over the next 15 months or so. This in turn would likely result in an inverted yield curve. In such an environment, financial stocks, especially insurance companies, have historically done very poorly. So not hold them.!
My questions are
What is your expectation for future interest rate increases this year and next?
Do you agree with how 3-4 rate increases would likely affect the yield curve?
From you experience, historically, has this type of scenario been quite negative for financial stocks; that is banks and insurance companies?
And if this is very negative for financial stocks, should one continue to hold such shares beyond the end of this year?
Your analysis please. Thanks.