Investment Q&A

Q: Wishing a Happy New Year to Peter, Ryan and staff!

I am looking for "relative" safety with some upside and yield. I noticed these two currently look attractive. Your thoughts/alternate suggestions please.

Q: BMO has new issues ie. Bank of Montreal U.S. Equity (CAD Hedged) Callable Income Principal At Risk Notes, Series 789 (CAD). Is there a simple description of these auto callable shares. Are they risk protected? How? It seems that these may be “ timely” given the market meltdown and not necessarily very investable. I found these while researching fixed income.

Q: Thanks for your service! Can you comment on the above? Income and growth. Also, could you give me your top 5 income primarily, growth secondarily.
Please deduct appropriate amount of credits.
Regards.

Q: Hi, can you recommend 5 high yielders to buy today for RRSP Drip. Please exclude ENB, BCE, CIBC, RCI, unless I should add to them. US OK. 5 Year Hold. Thanks.

Q: What pipeline would you recommend and also what company or companies would you suggest in the oil & gas sector.
Many thanks and Happy New Year.
Joyce

Q: What are your three preferred Canadian Electrical Utilities to buy right now?

Q: Would you have the 2018 yield for the TSX available?

Thank you

Q: I'm looking for suggests on where to invest about $18K that I have in cash that's in two RRSP's and my TFSA, from stock sales and cash deposits in 2018.
My total portfolio is about $53K, with $22K already in RBC, BNS and BAC, also $3.5K in Goeasy and $1.5K in Orca Gold, I'm still up on all of these even with 2018. I have a further $7K in various oil, gas and a driller, these I'm under water over 50%, but like to keep them for now and try to recoup some of those loses as I think they are very oversold.
Can you give me some ideas for investing my cash, I'm looking for longer term investments not just trades, I would prefer dividend paying stocks but would also be interested in non-dividend payers as well. I want to stick to Canadian companies for now as the dollars is down some much against the US.
Also should I look at trimming the banks stocks I currently have, I'm quite overweight on them, but I'm not worried at this point with the amount I have tied up in them.

Q: Sold Cliq and Ygr today at a loss. Bought MAXR at $ 15.60. Yield of 9% ???. Would it be a good idea or sell into the strength.? In spite of their problems in the past current fundamentals don’t look all that bad. How big a problem is their debt. New arrangements with their bankers. I’m mainly a dividend / growth investor. This is my only tech stock. 3% of portfolio.

Q: Very low stock price; some insiders have been buying in sizable amounts. Good entry point?

John

Q: I have owned WPM for many years, up about 200%. I am now 67 and looking for more income. Should I keep it as a hedge, a little income. Your thoughts on telcos?? Everybody ( younger) seem to be able do everything for free in that space! Please deduct appropriate amount of credits.

Q: I'm looking to add another dividend name with some opportunity for capital appreciation. What would be your preference between BPY and BAM?

Q: What are you thoughts on this company? They seem to have most of the market share in juices category in Canada with US exposure due to past acquisitions. Thanks.

Q: Team, I’m looking at holding 15% of my portfolio in a low risk fixed income investment. What would be suitable securities to buy?

Q: Could I please have your current valuation on this company and its prospects going forward?

Thanks

Q: Assume for the moment that I believe that the current market has just experienced a pull back as opposed to being at the start of a longer downward trend (bear market, recession, ...).

I have about 25% of my portfolio in income generating, relatively diverse, ETFs (xhy, xpf, xtr, ...) but I don't currently need the cash flow. These fell more or less in line with the TSX - in some cases less.

I feel like now would be a good time to move these ETF holdings to solid individual companies that have done worse this year (BNS -20%, TD -18%, ctc.a -23%, etc.) and in a recovery period should do better than the ETFs.

Your thoughts on this strategy?

Q: Ryan; There was a weekend Globe article on HNL and it sounds like they have basically switched from building structures for the north to mainly the BC lower mainland. Could you comment on this change please. They hired away a top BC official from Vancouver’s affordable housing agency. Thanks. Rod

Q: Happy New Year 5i
I'm interested purchasing some AQN. It seems to have the combination of some equity growth and a growing dividend. The one concern I have is payout ratio. Can you please comment on the high payout ratio.

Q: I have a trading portfolio of about $53K, about $18K is in cash right now and I'm looking at investing it again this year after selling a bunch of stocks last year. I currently have about $22K in RBC, BNS and BAC, $3.5K in Go Easy and $1.5K in Orca Gold and would like to keep these. I have a further $7K in various oil and gas stocks which I'm underwater over 50% on, I'm thinking of still hanging onto them as I thinking they maybe at there bottom and like to recoup some of those loses.
I want to invest the $18K in growth oriented stocks that pay dividends and keep them long term, as I'm an investor not a trader. Can you give me advise on what areas of the market I should be looking at in 2019 that were very oversold in 2018 and due to rebound, also specific companies in Canada to invest in, I don't mind also looking at the US but with our dollar down so much this year I think I'm better of with Canada.

Q: Has BAM, BPY or any of the other Brookfield subsidiaries ever cut their dividend in their history? BPY and BEP are getting close to an 8% yield and I'm wondering a cut could be considered if it went much higher.

Thanks!