Investment Q&A

Q: What is your opinion on scotia resource fund, what would be better.

tia pat

Q: Active vs passive investing over next 12 months. I had shifted much of my USA and International exposure to low cost ETFs. With most mutual funds in that class at the time having MERs>2.0% and rising tides making it hard for them to outperform their fees. The landscape in Canada has improved for mutual funds with many companies releasing new lower MER funds or significantly dropping them on exisiting funds. With the bar for otuperforming their MER much lower now do you consider the lower fee active funds a better choice in these more volatile times? I am holding some cash and need to decide is I put it in ETFs to hit the average or pay for more active management in some well managed global and USA funds.

Q: Could you please comment on the long term viability on Romspen investment mortgage fund. Approximately 30 per cent of their mortgages are currently non performing although they have increased their month payout recently. As a holder of the fund should I be looking to divest under their proposed changes to the Declaration of Trust . Use as many credits as you feel appropriate. Thanks for you help.

Q: My wife and I both have DC pension plans with our respective employers (with company matching), and generally buy into low-cost index funds that are available to us.

We each also have LIRAs (with pension funds from our previous employers), and for these buckets of funds we would like to buy mutual funds to benefit from good quality active management. MAW150 and DYN245 are two funds that have jumped out to us - if we were to buy these two funds alone, would a 50/50 split in each of our LIRAs be reasonable, in terms of diversification (both sector and geographic allocation)? We would be looking to buy and hold for a long period of time (~20 years).

Q: Hello,
I am not sure if we are allowed to ask a question on this type of fund but here goes.
I am just wondering what your opinion is of this fund?

Thanks

Q: This ttl return bond fund is half corp bond and about 1/3 prov. bond. It seems to have low volatility. Can't find anything about duration. Is this fund suitable for the times?

Q: For you previous question you noted PSA and CSAV, however, neither are available on RBC Direct Investing? Any options for USD?

Q: What do you think of this as a global fund (ex. Canada) and are there better choices to consider?

Q: Hi Peter
MAWER has a new fund which is called MAWER EAFE Large Cap Fund MAW170.
It's region, weight and some of the top 25 stocks held are the same as the MAW102 International Fund and has the same manager.
If you were to buy one of these two funds which one would you buy and why?
Cheers Ron

Q: Would appreciate your comments on these two funds with respect to investment strategy, costs and any other considerations. Thanks, Brian

Q: I am helping my niece set up with ETF. She is holding the below funds right now. Can you please advise their fees and which ETF would you suggest replacing them with? Is there a site where you can check the mutual fund fees and performance?

PH&N LifeTime 2045 Fund
RBC Canadian Equity Fund
RBC Balanced Fund
BLK Balanced Index
Capital Global Equity
BLK US Equity Index

Thanks for your help
Hector

Q: Hello Peter & team,

Can you please provide your opinion on this ETF and where it might rank in your views? Is it a smart investment with approx $300,000?

I noticed it has a fee of 1.66% with a yield of 1.54%. Could you please provide me a comparison of these fees and yield with those applicable to XSB, CBO, XYH, XBB, VCB and where the BMO ETF might rank compared to these?

Thanks for all you do

gm

Q: My full service advisor has suggested I sell passive ETF's ZDY, ZGI & VDU and buy active fund Capital Goup Global International Equity (CIF 843). The passive holdings have no trailing commission the active fund does. But it seems the active fund performance is much better? Could please give me your opinion if this would be advisable - thanks for your usual great advice.

Q: Peter and team
After getting out of the market in March, I am thinking of reinvesting my non registered money in Mawers Tax Advantage Balanced Fund. I intend to pay any tax bills from this money.
Would I be facing complicated tax calculations at year end for each withdrawal I made?
Would it be better to go with a Balanced ETF such as VBAL?
Thanks
Phil

Q: Hello
I have held the Chou fund CL A-FE for a number of years and YTD on this fund is -24 should I continue to hold or should I take a loss and sell?

Q: Good morning,
My grandson is 9 years old and I've set up for him a Non Registered Informal Trust account in which I contribute a few thousand dollars every year.
This Informal Trust non registered account is comprised of a selection of Horizon Corporate Class TRI ETFs that do not distribute any income or dividends that could otherwise be attributed back to the contributor. That being said, this informal trust account also holds one mutual fund (MAW 150) that does make distributions at the end of the year and that I would like to sell and invest the proceeds with another Horizon Corporate Class TRI ETF.
My question is regarding the best time to sell this MAW 150 and more specifically whether there is any advantage in replacing the fund immediately with a Horizon TRI ETF or waiting until the end of the year after Mawer makes its annual distribution (disregard the effect of attribution in your response).
Thank you and I look forward to hearing your thoughts and recommendation.
Francesco

Q: Hi 5i,

Thank you in advance for you guidance. It is much appreciated. So, I am very bullish for gold and silver. I have invested in physical gold and but I want to take advantage of gold and silver companies as well. I love The Gold Fund at EuroPacific Asset Management (https://europacificfunds.com/funds/gold-fund/) that is managed by Adrian Day, but it requires a $100K minimum investment for Canadians. Can you recommend a really great ETF or Mutual Fund that is similar?

Q: I own units in this mutual fund. It says that it dropped 55% yesterday. Is this correct and if so what would be the reason for the significant decrease in one day?

Q: For a retired person that wants to preserve their capital, what do you think about
RBC series A mutual fund RBF 209?

Q: Can I have your opinion on this etf. Has done well since the March sell off, but long term not so much. Has many of your growth favorites. Was there a recent change in management or strategy to explain this uptick.
Thanks Peter