Investment Q&A

Q: Hello, Just starting an RESP, roughly 18 years to grow, ok with medium risk, dividends would be nice. Starting off with $2500, adding that amount annually afterward. What would you recommend to start with, stocks or ETF's? thanks for the great service! Lavern

Q: Hello 5i,
I’ve changed my investment goals for my children’s resp. It will be spent within the next 6 years, so after the December correction I plan to liquidate. At this point, I have $5 k more than I promised them. The stocks listed above are those that remain in the account.
Going forward should I:
1) sell all the stocks and buy an etf for 5k?
2) if an etf, which one for max growth?
3) if one were to keep only one or two stocks, which would be kept for most potential for gains? (This would be instead of the etf).

I would not have grown the resp to its current value had it not been for 5i. Thank you for helping me fund my kids education!

Q: Your view on earnings.
Tom

Q: Do you have some suggestions for an RESP that will not used for 15 years? The kids are now in SK and JK.

Thanks so much. Bob.

Q: Hi,

I have TSGI (Down 45%) , PBH (Down 22%) in my RESP Account. My daughter is 12 years old. Should I sell them and move on to banks/utilities ?

Thanks
Ninad

Q: Where would you put $500 of annual contribution to RESP account of 2 years old grandchild. Thanks in advance for your comments.

Q: Regarding Dawn's question, "A great-grandparent has sent us $5000 for our 13 year old, as a small pre-inheritance gift. We want to using this as an investment learning tool, and currently plan to deposit it in my husband's TFSA (he currently has room in it) and will track it's performance separately."

Your suggestion of the RESP was spot on, but if the RESP is full and she wants to teach him about investing she could open an in trust Waterhouse account. This would save her husbands TFSA room. Teach a lesson and save on taxes. Get documents to show CRA that the money was a gift and the money will be taxed differently in the 13 year olds name.

Q: A great-grandparent has sent us $5000 for our 13 year old, as a small pre-inheritance gift. We want to using this as an investment learning tool, and currently plan to deposit it in my husband's TFSA (he currently has room in it) and will track it's performance separately. We use TD Canada Trust, and thus have access to their WebBroker platform. What would you suggest for a secured investment (GIC or otherwise)? We are looking at a 5 year term, and it can be locked-in.
As always, thanks for all your good info!
Dawn

Q: Could you please recommend 1 or 2 growth stock for a new born’s RESP account. We would consider to hold or add to these stocks over next 10 to 12 years. The initial investment this year is about $ 2500.

Thanks very much !!

Q: Thanks for the great service as always.

I'm looking to replace a couple of mutual funds in the family RESP. We have two kids ages 6 and 9. The current funds (~$65k) are split between RBC Target Education 2025 (about 2/3) and RBC Target Education 2030 (about 1/3).
To save on those high MERs, I was thinking of replacing those two funds with 40% XBB, 30% XIC, and 30% XUS. Contributions over the next ~10 years will go straight towards XBB. The goal is to keep it diversified and simple.
Does this change make sense?

Q: RESP. I will be using TD e-series funds and adding monthly contributions. Is there a best generic investment guideline I can follow? and guideline on how to adjust the risk and the kids age. My kids are 5 and 7. Currently the funds are in TD dividend growth fund and TD dividend income fund.

Thank you again.

Q: Hello, can you give me your top 5 stocks as of today, no concerns for risk, sector etc. this would be for a grandchild's RESP, Ages 3 and 1.

Q: My 2 sons are done their university courses and I still have over $100,000 in the RESP investment account - what is the most cost efficient way to wind down this account (I have limited cont room in my RSP) THX
Ralph...

Q: I have an RESP for my two year old granddaughter that is diversified into 6 TSX stocks and one US ETF. Each TSX stock is currently a small holding because of the limited RESP donations to date. My question is - when the RESP is liquidated many years from now, is there a minimum number of shares I should have in each stock to facilitate selling the position?

Q: Hello -
Is TSGI suitable for an RESP, or is there too much risk with the stock? For what it is worth, my two grand daughters are still over a decade away from withdrawing any funds from this account.
Thanks.

Q: Good Morning,

My daughter's RESP has the following stocks. I have added some CSU because I simply can't pass up the buy opportunity on this weakness. I am overweight in IT now, what would you recommend for an 8 yr horizon please.

Current holdings:
BNS, CSU, DSG, DHX, ENB, ECI, HR.UN, KBL, MUX, RHT, STN, SLF, TSGI. She also has 3 ETF - US Dividend, Emerging Markets, Nasdaq Indexed all equal weight.

Thanks for all you do!!

Eric

Q: Hi Peter/Ryan,

My daughter is 11 years old and currently in her RESP account I have invested $40,000 in CBO,XBB,CDZ,CPD,XHY (equal amounts).
I am considering selling the current holdings and investing equal amount into below
1) ZQQ OR QQC.F
2) XIU OR XIC
3) VFV OR XUS
4) Balanced:  GC, SIS, PBH, NFI, CSU
5) Growth: PHO, KXS, GSY, ECN, PEO
Please let me know your thoughts about the above strategy.

Thanks

Q: Just curious to what the status is on the Minto Apartment REIT IPO? Can you wait until after the IPO to get in or should one try to get in on the IPO? What will the price be when it goes public? What info do you have on the dividend? Any other information on this would be great.

Thanks, Jimmy

Q: I started my children's RESP in 1999 and at first I had the funds 100% invested in a Canadian Dividend Mutual Fund When I found 5i, I started to invest the funds solely in equities. Three years ago, my oldest started University and the RESP value was $210,000. In May before the start of the University year, I sell $25,000 of stocks to cover the cost of one year. My oldest daughter is going into 4th year and my other daughter is going into 2nd year. To date I have cashed out $150,000 of stocks and as I kept my balance in equities throughout I have a remaining balance of $107,000 with two more years of undergraduate to pay for. Over the past 19 years, the stock market has mostly gone up and down (2001, 2008, 2011). I am positive if 5i was around in 1999, the RESP would have been much higher than $210,000.
Stephen

Q: Peter/Ryan, RESP to be used starting in 3 years has BNS, GUD, OTC & PHO all ~15% + 40% cash. Would COV and/or VB be good additions ~10% each ? What else would you add or subtract ? Thank you.