Investment Q&A

Q: Hi, 5i
I have been baling out since the past 2 months .... so the cash is quickly accumulating. I found some good replacements and do not think it is so bad to get a solid 5% than a potential future 20% loss.
This morning, Berman has suggested zwu as a good investment.
Your opinion would be appreciated, and your reason why you like it/ do not like it very helpful.
CDJ

Q: I'm considering investing my entire TFSA in either VGRO or VBAL.
Would you recommend one or over the other, or perhaps a different strategy?
Thank you.

Q: Thanks for your earlier reply about treatment of distributions in various accounts (TFSA, RRSP and investment accounts) but my question was specifically for FLOT (iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF), which I believe is still in your Income Fund. For some reason the company name did not appear in my initial question.

Steve

Q: Can you give me your opinion of the ETF FFTY? Do you like the weekly rebalancing? What about the expenses, do you consider them high? I'm looking for something I can buy and hold and was thinking of allocating 10% of my portfolio to this. If you don't like it can you suggest something else for US exposure? Thanks!

Q: hi peter
is Israel is good emerging play for investing, if so is there an Israeli etf trades in usa
could you mention Israeli companies in hi tech area worth looking
I am not interested teva pharmaceutical the only company I know is soleredge I believe which trades in usa your opinion is always very helpful
thanks in advance

Q: We will be putting 50,000 in my wife TFSA inNovember. we are looking for relatively safe investments with decent return.We think perhaps 10 investments @5000 each.Can you suggest other names I could look into.We have RRSP maxed out with varied portfolio.Deduct as many credits required. Tks 5i

Q: Can you tell me what would be a similar/equivalent ETF
in the US?

thanks

Q: I don't have any FAANG stocks. I want to buy can you please give me in order which one I should buy first. I was also looking at FTEC ETF. Do you recommend this ETF or would you recommend another one?

Thanks for your great service.
Hector

Q: 5i team: would you please advise on your opinion on these ETFs. Is it a good opportunity to buy into a new etf when the initial price is about 10$ or is this a misconception on value. In contrast to say vbal & vgro at the 25$ range? Also can you coment on mpcf . If it was a core holding what could compliment it as for diversity. Do all of the above have enough canadian exposure? Tks

Q: Can you recommend a preferred share ETF that has rate reset preferred shares. And what percentage of a portfolio should it be?

Q: I need to beef up my foreign holdings. What is your recommendation on emerging markets ETF

Q: My father will visit Canada next year to attend my graduation. He just wired me 30K to invest and said this will be his travel expense next year, so he wanted a guaranteed positive return for his money. What are some of the stock/etfs you recommend me to put my money in. I do know we have a income portfolio, so please do not say something like "referring to income portfolio", there are too many names there. Can you just give me some of your favorite names? also, some ETFs are fine too. Thank you in advance. Tony

Q: What do you think about HBAL a new balanced ETF just launched last week?

Q: Hi,
Im young (33) with good income and savings for investment for the long term. Im thinking of putting my portfolio 50% into etfs for long growth and 50% into equities for faster growth. I like the etfs since it has been shown time and time again that it is rare to beat the market long term with just selecting individual companies. With the 50% in individual equities, I would rebalance probably once per year (unless large bumps in price happen) to take profits and move them to the etfs to maintain the 50% split for a while and protect against losses. Do you think this is good approach? What basket of etfs would you recommend for this approach? Or would you look at something all in one like VGRO? If a basket of etfs is recommended would you prefer hedged or unhedged? I have read/heard a lot about a coming recession and potential dive in the US dollar (from people like Peter Schiff), so Im not really sure how to protect against that (other than growing my cash reserves also to be ready to purchase on a large drop). Or would you use a combination of ETFS and gold somehow? Thanks for putting up with my rambling here, please deduct what you need to for credits.

Thanks

Q: In reviewing ZWC distribution tax information for 2017, $.664 of the $1.12 distribution was deemed ROC with the remainder being eligible dividend. How is this possible? The ETF holds dividend paying companies. There is no operating business carried out that would have non cash items like depreciation that would constitute ROC. Gains realized on call writing would be capital gains. Where is this ROC coming from and is it cause for concern?

Q: Best etf for marijauna invesment.. Thanx ryan.. Good luck today peter, on Bnn!!

Q: Can you please tell me what the dividend payout % for each etf, as well as their 5 year average return is. Would you equally weight them?
Please deduct appropriate question allocation.
Regards

Q: For investing in Etf's, which top three sector's do you recommend investing in for the next three to five years, hedged or un-hedged, thanks?

Q: God morning,

Is it better to own ETF XIT or own only one tech stock OTEX?

Thanks

Q: Hello 5i Team

The passive index fund industry is dominated by BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. Seen together, these three giant, passive asset managers already constitute the largest shareholder in at least 40 percent of all U.S. listed companies and 88 percent of the S&P 500 firms. What are your thoughts in terms of the big three controlling the corporations and what happens when there is a market correction or meltdown. Would there be any buyers left and also individual stock investors could get into deep trouble.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/30AD689509AAD62F5B677E916C28C4B6/S1469356917000064a.pdf/hidden_power_of_the_big_three_passive_index_funds_reconcentration_of_corporate_ownership_and_new_financial_risk.pdf

Appreciate the good work done by 5i team.

Thanks
Ninad