Investment Q&A

Q: I understand that if a bond ETF has an average duration of 3 years, the value of the the ETF will fall by 3% if interest rates rise by 1%. Let's assume the ETF has a portfolio turnover rate of 100%. Is it correct to assume that, all other things unchanged, after one year the portfolio will have been replaced with bonds that yield 1% more, and therefore after another 3 years the 3% loss would be offset by the extra interest income earned?

Q: Hi: Not a question, just a comment. Albert asked about ZPAY yesterday and the recent weakness in the performance. It is a US$ based holding and when the Canadian $ has been gaining it affects it adversely.
Thanks, BEN.

Q: Hello 5i,
I have $10,000 of ZEM and am looking for income. Would it be O.K. to switch to DVYE? 75 years, value investor for income with some growth ( LSPD, LNF).
Stanley

Q: 5i team.

To compliment your offerings, would you consider creating three ETF versions to mimic your Income, Growth and Balanced portfolios. Any chance this is on your radar, or possibly partner with and ETF provider to achieve this?

Heres hoping!!

Q: I own a fair amount of zpay for combination of yield and exposure to the US market. Can you explain why it has been weak while US markets have continued to rise?

Q: Hello,
I am nearing retirement. I have CBO, CPD, VAB and XHY at 20% of my fixed income portfolio. All these ETF's exist in my unregistered account. I wanted to add XBB in my RRSP account. Any concerns about too much overlap by adding this position? This will add 7% to my fixed income position. Portfolio analytics recommends a 30% position.

Thanks for all your help.

Q: Cryto/bitcoin/ethereal
Just wondering what your thoughts are on this sector. If u wanted to invest with a small position what would u recommend? Thanks as always. Clare

Q: Thank you for the reply to my recent question. Unfortunately the question pertained to the 5i balanced etf portfolio not the balanced equity portfolio. May I please have to top five etf positions to add new money at this time.

Q: Good evening, would your team be able to recommend a growth oriented ETF for purchase in TFSA, either Canadian focused or internationally focused?

Cheers

Q: Can you provide a few companies or ETF's, that you think will be a good way to be involved in Copper, and for these stocks/ETF's would you suggest U.S. over Cdn?
Companies for a 3-5 year hold?
Companies for 8+ years?
Thank you.
Grant

Q: what value / cyclical suggestions do you have ETF wise?

Would one play a DOW ETF or the Russell?
or Canadian ETFs ?

Thanks

Q: How does an unanticipated interest-rate rise in the US or a serious deterioration of the corporate debt market affect these two ETFs? Can you roughly estimate in % the impact compared to that of the stock market in each case for each ETF?
Thanks,

Q: I have balanced stocks in RRSP (mainly from your BE portfolio) and growth companies in TFSA (mostly our picks). Its very well diversified in different sectors. Thank you for your help

I still have ~50 K Cash (from recent clean up) in RRSP which I would be investing in this summer. Since majority of my stocks are Canadian, to balance out I am looking to add mostly US ETFs.

These are the ETFs have got my attentions from your questions answers. I am looking for maximum growth and also a hold and forget for 10 + years. This question applies to RRSP

Please provide me with 3-5 suggestions from below. Would you add anything else here or suggest otherwise?

IWO, IWM, VB, VUG, VFV, VGRO, QQQ, ARKK, ARKG,SPY

Thank you for your excellent service!

Q: how do i invest in the decline of us$. ie. short the U S $

Q: Good morning,

I just wanted to pass on information to anyone that uses BMO Investorline as a platform. Starting today they have 80 ETF's where there will be zero commission on buying and selling. Here is the list of the 80 ETF's I think this is a great way to slowly add small positions commission free especially for the kids RESP.

Actually I do have a few questions now come to think of it. Do you think this is a good idea and if you were to pick 3-5 ETFS from this list and somewhat try to be diversified which ones would it be? If you can give me 3 to 5 from the list feel free to take credits per ETF you find.

Thanks

List:
EQUITIES: CDZ / CIE / CUD / CWO / VCN / VDY / VEE / VFV / VGG / VGG / VGH / VI / VIDY / VIU / VSP / XDV / XEC / XEF / XFI / XHD / XIN / XIU / XMM / XMU / XSEM / XSP / XUS / ZCN / ZDH / ZDI / ZDM / ZDV / ZDY / ZEA / ZEM / ZLB / ZLE / ZLI / ZLU / ZSP / ZUE / ZUQ / ZVC
FIXED INCOME: CLF / VAB / VCB / VGV / XBB / XCB / XHY / ZAG / ZCB / ZGB / ZHY / ZJK
MULTI-ASSET CLASS: VBAL / VCIP / VCNS / VEQT / VGRO / XBAL / XCNS / XEQT / XGRO / XINC / ZBAL / ZCON / ZESG / ZGRO
THEMATIC: ZAUT / ZFIN / ZGEN / ZINN / ZINT
ESG: ESGA / ESGB / ESGE / ESGG / ESGY / XESG / XSAB / XSEA / XSTB / XSUS

Q: Hi Guys,

I currently have units of FCOM and QQC.F in my portfolio. Given that their holdings and performance are reasonably similar, should I consider to get rid of one of them and move the funds into the other?

Q: I currently own Eric's Mutual Fund (NPP314) and am considering switching to his ETF (NNRG). Just to understand the tracking differences, I monitored the daily movements on 3 days...May 26-28-31 (small sample, I know).
May 26 => NNRG = 0.91% vs NPP314 = 1.68%
May 28 => 1.70% vs 1.90%
May 31 => 4.93% vs 3.71%
Total all 3 days => 7.54% vs 7.29%

Can you please provide your understanding of the daily differences?
Also, is the May 31 difference, due to month-end adjustments?
The totals seems to make sense, due to the different MERs...agree?

Do you still agree it makes sense to move to NNRG (I can't find much information on the ETF in their website (or through RBC), except it is in their drop down box for options to buy, on the Ninepoint website. To me this implies that the holdings are identical)? There is only $1.1 Million in NNRG...is this an issue to be concerned about?

Thanks for your help...Steve

Q: I am thinking of investing in VXC (or maybe XAW) in my RRSP. I understand that since this is a fund of funds and some of the underlying ETFs are US based, that there will be foreign withholding tax of some amount. To avoid the tax, am I better off to invest in the underlying ETFs (Canadian versions only) specifically VFV, VIU and VEE? (small cap I could not find). How much of an issue is the foreign withholding tax? Is it small enough to not bother buying all these underlying ETFs directly? Your thoughts please.

Q: As an older senior, I own CDZ for dividends. Would ZWC be a better option?
thanks

Q: Hi,
I converted most of my cad to usd and have been doing investments in us companies and recently sold many of the tech due to the noise regarding interest rates. How can I preserve my usd cash from depreciation against cad without changing back to cad . I have seen a drop from 1.3 conversion to now at 1.2 and it seems the general view is that it may hit 1.