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Q: What percentage of the stocks purchased is by pension funds, private equity etc. vs small investors like myself?
Clayton
Read Answer Asked by Clayton on August 04, 2020
Q: further to your answer on USD vs Gold price. Thanks for your clarification. Does printing money increase the Money supply?
With more money available BoC buys government bonds increasing Govt to spend more, is that responsible for Asset prices to rise, ie real estate which is limited and of course Gold which is also limited.
I most appreciate your expansive replies on this subject.
Art
Read Answer Asked by Arthur on July 31, 2020
Q: what happens when USD/CAD etc is devalued "over night" as it happened many decades ago when the Israeli Pound was replaced by the Shekkel. People holding cash lost a fortune but those that had not sold their homes, (my wife's relative) were sighing in relief.
QUESTION: If the USD were devalued over night what happens to share prices quoted on the NYSE in USD.?? The value of the company who had issued the stock may not have changed much in terms of profit potential as an economic entity??? unless it held a huge amount in cash then it would suffer the same as the common folks.
Art
Read Answer Asked by Arthur on July 31, 2020
Q: With the price of some of the stocks at extremely high valuations, when do you decide to sell or do you just keeping on trimming back once stocks gets to 10% of portfolio
Read Answer Asked by Nick on July 30, 2020
Q: Hi 5i experts,

I noticed this penny gold mine stock has very high deposit potential of 1.6M Ounce. One question though is the high institutional holding. Why there are over 50% institutional holding for this penny stock? I heard before that institutions normally only buy stocks above $5. I checked other gold mine stocks and most of the penny stocks have high insider holding but very few institution holdings. Does the high institution holding means a lot of fund managers see this stock as a good upside potential?

Thanks,

Adam
Read Answer Asked by Adam on July 29, 2020
Q: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOOK VALUE AND TANGIBLE BOOK VALUE
Read Answer Asked by John on July 29, 2020
Q: Next Thursday, 11 companies (which I hold) are reporting their earnings either before market opens or after market closes. This is a record for me. Curious, what procedures do you or other 5i team members use to deal with even more companies reporting their earnings on the same day in a timely manner? Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Karen on July 28, 2020
Q: Question asked by Terry: "What was the price of Fnv and the price of gold at the end of 2011?" Canada Stock Channel will give compound earnings on $10,00.00 with and with out dividend back to 1995. Just enter the stock symbol and date range. https://www.canadastockchannel.com/compound-returns-calculator/
Read Answer Asked by Roy on July 28, 2020
Q: Further to the question related to the dividend cut for CDZ, is it safe to assume the cut is related to the associated dividend cuts from the underlying securities? And if that is true, then can we assume that once these securities reinstate their dividends, then the CDZ dividend will, in turn, rebound?

OR, is it a case whereby the ETF is periodically reconstituted and it is a fresh start for the underlying securities and we have to wait for the natural progression of dividend increases related to these "new" underlying securities? In this case how long does an individual security have to be "off-side" to be turfed from the ETF?

Thanks for helping me understand...Steve
Read Answer Asked by Stephen on July 28, 2020
Q: With Tesla hitting 4 quarters of profitability along with the other criteria, they are now eligible for consideration to be added into the S&P. I understand the S&P committee meets on a quarterly basis to rebalance the index, and the next meeting is scheduled for the third Friday in September. What is the time frame post the Sept meeting we can expect an announcement to be made that Tesla is to be added.
Read Answer Asked by John on July 27, 2020
Q: As electric cars gain traction do you see this having a benefit for utility stocks over the next 3 to 5 years? I'm thinking people will charge up their cars overnight increasing the demand load for the utilities. Possibly the utilities will need to upgrade their infrastructure so there might be up-grade costs. Possibly 3 to 5 years is too short a time for electric cars to have much of a presence. Utilities are regulated (I think) so all rate increases I suppose would need to be approved by regulatory government agencies which may baulk at any rate increases. Any thoughts you have would be appreciated.
Jim
Read Answer Asked by James on July 24, 2020
Q: Modern Monetary Theory appears to be gaining increasing acceptance. If Western governments were to adopt this Theory, what do you believe the impact would be to investment portfolios? What investment classes do you believe would do well, and what investment classes would do poorly? Do you see this Theory as causing a change to portfolio allocations amongst investment classes?

Thank you for your wonderful and thoughtful insights.
Read Answer Asked by Dale on July 23, 2020
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