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Q: Hi, could you please comment on guardian capital's earnings. Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Adam on March 03, 2014
Q: Hi Peter
Thanks for your recent newsletter my favorite read of the day. We bought Altus Group (AIF) because of an answer to a question from back in Aug. We did some research and have being holding it since. It had a good jump this week. Would you say it is still a buy or just a hold. It makes up less than 1% of our portfolio. Thanks for groups time and effort.
Read Answer Asked by jeffrey on February 28, 2014
Q: What are your thoughts on CIBC? (cm)

For whatever reason, CIBC seems to be the black sheep of the Canadian banks? Why is that? While TD and BNS seem to be talked about constantly, few seems to talk about CIBC.

Comparatively, the other Canadian banks are trading well above 2007 highs while CIBC still trades at a 15% discount to 2007 highs.

Given its strong earnings report today and 2 dividend raises in the last year, CIBC looks cheap compared to peers. What do you think?

Thanks
Read Answer Asked by michael on February 28, 2014
Q: Hi Peter: This is a follow-up to Claudette's question regarding Mr. Hodgins' shorting of Home capital Group. As I recall, his argument was that the average house price should be equal to the net present value of a steam of 25 years (I think) of rental payments, and that current house prices are 40% over this level. Hence we have a bubble that will either burst or get deflated by a slow decay in house prices hence less mortgage income for HCG. What do you think of his argument?
Read Answer Asked by Roland on February 27, 2014
Q: Here is a general question. If anyone knew yesterday that Royal was going to report a 2 billion profit and clean beat all over, would they not have backed up the truck before today, in anticipation of a short term bounce? Instead, it is down a quarter. What does this say about the rationality of the markets. Is it possible there is more luck involved than is acknowledged and is a lot of investing similar to the lottery, notwithstanding common sense and a long term horizon. Thanks
Read Answer Asked by David on February 26, 2014
Q: Good morning. Could you please provide your updated thoughts on Counsel CXS? I appreciate that the stock gained substantially in 2013, but it's down about 30% from its $3.00 high last October. I'm happy to continue to hold it if you think it might recover. Otherwise, take my loss and move on. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Thomas on February 24, 2014
Q: AHF I have owned this company for a while, bought at around $1.40 and watched it drop to almost $1.00.
Should I continue to hold it and expect that it will regain it's former price or should I sell, absorb the loss and move on.
David
Read Answer Asked by David on February 24, 2014
Q: Can you help to evaluate the quarterly numbers for EFH.
Revenue seems higher but net income quite a bit lower.
Just trying to understand the meaning of the underwriting loss for the past quarter and if this should be considered as significant negative result.
Read Answer Asked by Stephen on February 23, 2014
Q: I'm just short of a triple for the stocks Interpipeline & Pembina Pipeline so they are each way over 20% of my portfolio.Because of my purchase price ,both give great dividends but I'm asking should I trim a bit & which bank should I buy as a replacement or would you rather another area?
Thanks in advance for your great advice.
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on February 23, 2014
Q: I have three “Financials” (TD) TD Bank , (BNS) Bank of Nova Scotia and (HCG) Home Capital. Would it make sense to increase diversification buy replacing one of the banks with SLF (Sun Life Financial)?. If yes, which bank to keep? What is an appropriate waiting for the “financial” component of a portfolio? Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Paul C. on February 23, 2014
Q: Hi, AHF with this news about the lawsuite would you still buy or wait?
Read Answer Asked by Dario on February 20, 2014
Q: Re Aston Hill Financial (AHF)
I would suppose all the internal disention at the firm might have something to do with the poor performance of the stock lately, NO?

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/02/12/resignations-and-lawsuits-at-aston-hill-financial/
Read Answer Asked by Scot on February 20, 2014
Q: Could you please tell me why Ahf,aston hill is dropping so much.
There must be some kind of reason for a drop of 20% in a couple of days.
Yesterday there was an unusual high volume as well.
I
Read Answer Asked by Josh on February 19, 2014
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