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Q: What is the main difference between investing in Index Funds vs ETF’s? I read about these U.S. bloggers who post about their increasing net worth by investing monthly in index funds, is that similar to investing in say WealthSimple in Canada?
Read Answer Asked by Cam on October 17, 2024
Q: I was wondering what your thoughts were on investing in ETF’s like Wealthsimple vs Index Funds. What’s the main difference and does one have more upside?
Read Answer Asked by Cam on October 17, 2024
Q: Good evening 5i,

I have held ZLB for some time and while happy with the holding as part of my portfolio, I am considering a switch to HDIV. It would continue to be a long term hold.

Based on past perfromance, I don't see that the ZLB provides that much less volatility protection over HDIV to justify the higher fees and lower yield.

I would certainly appreicate your thoughts.

Thanks
Read Answer Asked by ANDREW on October 17, 2024
Q: Good morning, I have $200,000.00 in a taxable account and am looking for a temporary safe place to invest it in for a period of 6 to 8 months, hoping to generate some yield.
Do you have any suggestions?
Kindly advise & Thank you
Sergio
Read Answer Asked by Sergio on October 16, 2024
Q: I am setting up a TFSA for my wife. I have been managing my own TFSA for 7 years but my wife has maintained her account with a BMO investment advisor. We also both have RIFs managed by the same advisor. My TFSA has far outperformed the accounnts managed by the professional (thanks to your advice) but my wife is very risk adverse. She has about $100 K to invest. We are both in our 70s and don't have pressing needs for the cash. Could you. suggest a basket of Canadian/US stocks/etfs that would provide some low risk growth with a 10 year horizon.
Read Answer Asked by Ron on October 16, 2024
Q: Hi 5i
I'd like to add to a small TFSA investment, which today is 100% in VGRO.ca.
I will add funds so that 25% will be in VGRO.ca and the other 75% would be spilt between 2 to 3 of these: ZMMK, VFV, ZSP, ZDI, XIU. Timeline is 2 to 3 years and thinking to be more conservative because already have VGRO for growth.
What would be your ranking highest to lowest. Are there other ETF's that I should consider?
Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by George on October 16, 2024
Q: This is not a criticism, but simply a point I am making.
When comparing covered call ETF's, quite often you do not compare the percentage of holdings that the ETF is writing covered calls on. In particular, QMAX only writes calls on 30% of it's holdings, leaving the other 70% to go up and down with the market.
When you wrote your last answer about QMAX, it left me with the impression that they were writing calls on 100% of the holdings, which is wrong, and a bit misleading.
I realize that I am somewhat splitting hairs, but I feel that the percentage the fund is writing calls on is quite important, especially a tech ETF that will swing more, than say a T-Bill ETF.
Thanks for all you do!
Read Answer Asked by Greg on October 15, 2024
Q: Hi,
I'm looking to park some Cdn funds in a high interest savings ETF, and use TD as my bank. I found HISA, but don't know anything about the .NE exchange - if you could enlighten me on that - and let me know if there are better products that this, I would appreciate it!
Thanks for all your consistently great advice!
Dawn
Read Answer Asked by Dawn on October 15, 2024
Q: Hi Team, I'm a 65 yr old dividend investor and I have been investigating BMO Covered Call ETF (ZWT) and Hamilton's QMAX.
The only pure holding I have in Technology right now is DCBO (for growth) with <1% holding and I'm thinking of selling that and dumping into either of the above.
I'm really intrigued with QMAX yield of ~ 12% and MER of .65% compared to ZWT with a yield of ~3.57% and higher MER of .71%.
I understand that both could be very volatile (ZWT -30.9% in 2022 and up 64.5% in 2023). QMAX isn't a year old yet so no stats but I assume will be comparable?
Anyway, looking for your thoughts on which is better, is QMAX yield of 11.9% (too good to be true)? With QMAX, AUM of $374,505,060 some people like it? Thanks Bill
Read Answer Asked by William on October 12, 2024
Q: Repeating a question from Dec 2021 from Mike. At the time he asked: I would like to gain some more exposure into areas outside of Canada and the US, specifically China and India. I think ETF is the way to go. Would you suggest a couple? Any concerns with these areas currently? Would you suggest denominated in C$, US$ or any other currency for diversification?

What would your answer be today ?

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Roger on October 11, 2024
Q: I’m considering setting up a TFSA for a spouse who is not interested in selecting stocks/managing investments.
Should I stick to ETFs or mix ETFs with a few conservative stocks?
Read Answer Asked by Valerie on October 11, 2024
Q: I have $800,000.00 from the sale of a house, and am looking for a safe place to park it. There is a possibility of further interest rate cuts, so would a long term bond ETF be a good place?
Read Answer Asked by James on October 11, 2024
Q: What is the percentage weight of each of the 11 stock market sectors in Canada today? Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Gervais on October 11, 2024
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