Q: I have significant losses on XEC in a non-registered account. Is there any tactic for harvesting a tax loss on a broad market ETF while maintaining a proxy? Or any such proxying is typically disallowed by the CRA?

Q: Emerging market indices have been underperforming for some time now and are ostensibly quite undervalued relative to peers in aggregate. I happen to hold a fairly sizeable portion of my portfolio (~15%) in XEC. As such, I am curious as to your opinion on whether or not holding emerging market exposure is a valuable form of diversification in today's landscape. Finally, acknowledging you lack a crystal ball, do you anticipate emerging markets reverting to the mean in the foreseeable future?

Q: Can you please recommend a couple of BRIC ETFs?
Preferably Canadian, but perhaps a good US also.
Looking at a 3-5 year timeline.

thanks,

Paul