Investment Q&A

Q: I am looking to invest in food oriented companies such as groceries stores and consumer staples in both the US and Canada. It would be an expensive venture to invest in individual stocks. Are there ETF’s that you would recommend?

Q: Good day team,
I know you’ve been asked a lot about small and mid cap etfs but can you kindly recommend a few etfs both hedged and unhedged for a non registered account pls. No need to funds for at least 10 years.

Q: I currently hold Nukz and would like to add new ZAP ETF. Is there an overlap in these 2 ETF or just increase NUKZ position

Thanks for the great service

Q: I have two daughters resident in the USA and would like to put them into something similar to VEQT and VGRO. Are there any Fidelity USA or Vanguard USA products you can suggest that have a similarly diversified mix

Q: On Jan 21 2025, "IVV" the IShares core S&P 500 etf is up .84%, and yet the "HXS"etf, which is the corporate class etf based on the S&P 500 is down .93%. Could you explain how this can happen?

Q: What's up with the HXS ETF today (Jan 21)? The Canadian dollar is down 0.1%, the S&P is up 0.65%, yet, instead of being 0.75% up, the HXS is down 1.2% at the moment and below yesterday's NAV. The volume is below average, so it doesn't look like any big sellers dumping shares. What can explain almost 2% difference between the expected and observed behaviour of this ETF?

Q: Hello Peter,
I tried to balance growth and income as well as dividends (no with holding tax in RRSP for US stocks but there is in TFSA), and hence, can you let me know if these make sense for a mid 20s person starting off to have a more growth in TFSA and more income in RRSP.
TFSA: veqt, vgg, and xfn and maybe xic ( veqt has cdn exposure so thought i would exclude xic )
RRSP: vbal, zuq, xic, and xuu all of these trade on tsx. Much appreciated.

Q: Greetings!

What ETFs would you recommend to make up someone's entire investment portfolio with the intentions to add to them monthly?

Thank you very much.

Q: Hello
There seems to be interest in this ETF here and on BNN market call.

The price chart now being at pandemic low price catches my attention

I tried to access manager commentary but it was locked. Are you able to comment on what has driven such a poor price performance and whether the financial environment we are entering in the USA is favourable for this ETF?

We’d all like 9% yield but a waste of time if the price drops more.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Dave

Q: I hold many of the mag 7 and a few other upcoming AI names in my TFSA and feel i am quite exposed in that area. What ETFs would you recommend for diversifying my portfolio to avoid doubling up? Thanks

Q: I hold these ETF's in a RESP account and just wonder if all these ETF are different enough to own? Also would be be good to own XAW in the RESP account. Money is not needed for 10 years.

Thanks

Q: I see that Fidelity Global Innovators Fund (FINN) shows a very high return over the past year. Could you please provide some commentary/information on holdings, yield, how they have achieved such a annual high return, outlook, and what the risks are of owning this fund. Thank you.

Q: For a RESP would you be comfortable with a 20% holding for both of these 2 ETF?

Thanks

Q: Recently, Vaneck Digital Transformation ETF has come to my attention. What are your thoughts on it? Are there other options that you prefer to it? thx,

Q: If the canadian dollar is presently low against the us dollar AND I want to buy the S and P 500 (with the expectation that the dollar will revert to historical values in the future), AM I BETTER TO BUY THE S and P in US dollars or hedged ?

thanks

Ernie

Q: NEOE:BRKY (Berkshire Hathaway (brk) Yield Shares Purpose ETF)

The pro's & con's of long term buy on this one?

Thank you.

Q: TSX:QQCL (Global X Enhanced Nasdaq-100 Covered Call ETF)

Another pro's & con's question to buy or not?

The chart looks good on it.

Thank you.

Q: Good Morning. I have US dollars that I want to invest for my recently born grandchildren so there is a 15-20 year timeframe. Please advise 5 ideas, US $ stocks or etfs, and rank in order from low risk to high. I will likely purchase a mix and compare how they perform over time. Thank you.

Q: I know there is overlap with these 2 ETFs
Would it still make sense to own both, or is there another more complimentary Canadian Hedged US ETF to hold with either of those ETFs?
Thank you

Q: Some ETF's collect dividends from their underlying assets, but also employ yield-enhancement strategies. We might expect that such ETF's would account their distributions as some combination of 'pass through' dividends plus (for example) return-of-capital, but it is apparent that some ETF's retain essentially all dividends, and account distributions as (for example) return-of-capital alone. I can see how this policy might be attractive in the short- to medium-term - or even in the long-term, depending on the rate of inflation, and capital gains rules - but a notably cost of this policy is to deprive the investor of the considerable benefits of the dividend tax credit.

Is there a rule-of-thumb one can apply, here, to evaluate the implied trade-off, or is this the sort of thing the determination of which needs an accounting degree? Further (and without implying any judgment), can the ETF itself benefit from the dividend tax credit, or is the credit only available to individual taxpayers?