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Q: Hi, I am curious to understand market reaction to ALA's possible merger talks with WGL Gas utility. Some of your comments suggested that ALA shareholders will welcome the news and price could go up resulting in increase of our portfolio holdings in ALA. Market seems to think otherwise, as reflected in 5% drop in ALA price in the morning trading. WGL price , on the other hand shot up 6%, yesterday and even higher today. I understand that WGL is a gas utility, which could result in a lower price multiple for ALA, if there is a merger.Financing concerns, issue of new equity could be another concern, you think? How is it compensated with the highly accretive nature of the transaction ?

I would greatly appreciate your insight.
ALA and IPL are my midstream holdings and added ALA this morning on weakness, for stable income and some growth in future.
Read Answer Asked by rajeev on January 13, 2017
Q: It seems to me Open Text is one of your top technology stock pick now, and I like it very much too. The only problem for me is that the company seems like to be paying too much to stock price and playing trick with the stock price. It has a split last year, and now it is splitting again. This is in stark contrast with companies like Google, Priceline, Amazon, not to mention Birkshire, etc. Is this a warning sign? I mean two splits in less than a year.

Thanks

Shaun
Read Answer Asked by Dong Sheng on January 13, 2017
Q: Hi there, as part of the new year, I have rebalanced my portfolio with all names in the BE Portfolio with equal weighting. By reading through other's Q&A's and I've broken it down into the following accounts:

UNREG: BNS, SLF, WSP, T, PKI, CGX, ENB
TFSA: CSU, SIS, PBH, KXS, NFI, CXI, TOY, SYZ
RRSP: ATD.B, CCL.B, SJ, WCP, MX, AEM, MG, ENGH

I believe I read you are considering moving a name or two from the growth portfolio over to the BE Portfolio so I have a little bit of cash in my TFSA to make that purchase when the time comes. Based on my breakdown, are there any names you would swap around for maximum portfolio returns?

Thanks so much for your help and for everything your company does!
Read Answer Asked by Michael on January 13, 2017