Q: 1:42 PM 11/13/2014
Hello Peter :
I currently have a 17.5% position in precious metal stocks [FNV 10.2%, G 3.9%, SLW 3.02%, SSL 0.4%]. This is partly due to an inheritance about 2 years ago whereby the shares were transferred in to our account at the very high ACBs prevailing at the time. We sold a good portion of these stocks at that time but still need to reduce.
We choose to keep Franco Nevada in it's entirety as our only gold holding as it is a stable powerful, growing, well-financed company with low overheads and an acceptable dividend, but we do plan to sell G, SLW, and SSL even though these are very good companies. These 3 stocks are down 31%, 29% and 39% respectively from their ACBs.
The plan is to invest the proceeds into dividend-growing high quality stocks as we need the dividend income along with reasonable growth. We could add to our already existing positions in : Corby[CSW.A 2.1%], A&W[AW.UN 2.3%], Emera[EMA 2.2%], Telus[T 1.8%].
Or we could initiate new positions in two or more of Enercare [ECI], Chartwell [CSH.UN], BMO REITs [ZRE], Cervus [CVL], Alaris [AD], or AgGrowth [AFN], all with dividends in the 4-5% range.
I believe [hope] that gold and silver prices will rebound over the next few months or year [or then again maybe they won't] and the issue is whether to sell them now at a low or whether to do nothing and wait until the losses are greatly reduced. We cannot use the tax loss now and would have to carry it forward for future years. So the question now is whether the gold stocks will rise faster in price than the stocks we wish to buy?
What would be your strategy - switch now or wait - and which of the 10 stocks listed above would be the best buys now or in a year or so, and why?
Your opinion always greatly appreciated...... Paul K.
Hello Peter :
I currently have a 17.5% position in precious metal stocks [FNV 10.2%, G 3.9%, SLW 3.02%, SSL 0.4%]. This is partly due to an inheritance about 2 years ago whereby the shares were transferred in to our account at the very high ACBs prevailing at the time. We sold a good portion of these stocks at that time but still need to reduce.
We choose to keep Franco Nevada in it's entirety as our only gold holding as it is a stable powerful, growing, well-financed company with low overheads and an acceptable dividend, but we do plan to sell G, SLW, and SSL even though these are very good companies. These 3 stocks are down 31%, 29% and 39% respectively from their ACBs.
The plan is to invest the proceeds into dividend-growing high quality stocks as we need the dividend income along with reasonable growth. We could add to our already existing positions in : Corby[CSW.A 2.1%], A&W[AW.UN 2.3%], Emera[EMA 2.2%], Telus[T 1.8%].
Or we could initiate new positions in two or more of Enercare [ECI], Chartwell [CSH.UN], BMO REITs [ZRE], Cervus [CVL], Alaris [AD], or AgGrowth [AFN], all with dividends in the 4-5% range.
I believe [hope] that gold and silver prices will rebound over the next few months or year [or then again maybe they won't] and the issue is whether to sell them now at a low or whether to do nothing and wait until the losses are greatly reduced. We cannot use the tax loss now and would have to carry it forward for future years. So the question now is whether the gold stocks will rise faster in price than the stocks we wish to buy?
What would be your strategy - switch now or wait - and which of the 10 stocks listed above would be the best buys now or in a year or so, and why?
Your opinion always greatly appreciated...... Paul K.
