Q: peter,have you ever given any thought to starting a u.s. dollar growth portfolio or u.s dollar tech portfolio.,or a combination of both. you and your staff seem to own many u.s. equities and many questions are about u.s. stocks. furthermore a dollar made in u.s. equities is worth about 1.40 to your members who i think are 99% cdn, of course the reverse is true re losses.personally i only buy u.s. equities, i gave up on cdn equities, other than oil and the banks most are illiquid.
5i Research Answer:
It is not likely in the short term. We do not have enough analysts to properly cover all of the US market, and it is also difficult from a hiring point of view if we prevented staff from owning US equities.