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Q: Hi, the big us banks have all come down significantly lately and some hitting multi years lows. What is your opinion about the situation and would it be a buying opportunity ? Can you explain why they fell down so much. I know that Warren Buffet loves them a lot for many decades. Which one is your number one pick ? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by jean on March 09, 2020
Q: The Market Update and Special Report of March 9, 2020 is necessary reading in these turbulent times. If one already has a full position in any of the listed stocks, is your recommendation to consider them a HOLD, or if and when one feels more comfortable with buying more, would you suggest that we go overweight in that stock and/or sector, even temporarily? Thanks for your insight.
Read Answer Asked by Jerry on March 09, 2020
Q: I have a question about Avalara after reviewing its Annual Report on line on its website. . The audit notes a Material Weakness in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting on page 70 - 71 as follows - "The Company has a material weakness as it does not have adequate controls to effectively design, implement, and operate process-level and information technology controls to sufficiently mitigate risks of material misstatement associated with certain complex business processes and changes in those processes or applicable accounting standards."
On page 68 - 69 is another note by the auditors to the Board on what they call "A Critical Audit Matter" regarding the audit of company revenues as follows - "The processing and recording of revenue, including interfaces between systems and databases, is both manual and automated, and therefore the Company uses a complex set of procedures and systems to generate complete and accurate data to process and record its revenue transactions." As a result much time was spent on verification and they had to bring in professionals with expertise in data analytics to assist with the audit.
I know Avalara is a young company, but should such warnings give me reason to not invest at this time?
Read Answer Asked by Dave on March 09, 2020
Q: What % of an equity portfolio for a 10 year hold would you recommend in precious metals. I am considering Fnv.
What % of tsx composite index is represented by precious metals?
Read Answer Asked by Terry on March 09, 2020
Q: Any idea why ppl which currently yields 5.27% was down last week while the above other defensive stocks were up?
Read Answer Asked by Terry on March 09, 2020
Q: It looks as though utilities, and renewable utilities in particular, have taken off, while Canadian pipelines, which are also traditionally stable investments, are either flat or dropping.
Do you have any comments on whether:
1. this is a short term disparity or a fundamental shift,
2. whether one group is better than the others at current prices, and
3. If the recent drop now otherwise creates a good point of entry for any or all?
Read Answer Asked by Peter on March 09, 2020
Q: Hi there,
When there is a corporate takeover and one receives a fraction of the new shares, that fraction of a new share may be paid out as "cash in lieu". Is that cash in lieu treated as a capital gain/loss or is it considered dividend income?
Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by John on March 09, 2020
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