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Q: It seems that 5i and company have the power to move markets with ABT and TOY both up today!

I have 15% allocated to 4 tech companies - CSU, MNW, ENG and OTC - all in fairly equal amounts within a diversified portfolio. Would you endorse a switch out of MNW and into KXS for better potential growth with reduced risk or do you feel their profiles are similar? Would adding a fifth holding be better and if so, should I increase the tech percentage or reduce one or all equally?

Appreciate your insight.

Paul F.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on September 01, 2016
Q: I have sold AVO and would like to know which stock out of balanced portfolio who you replaced this stock as this was my only tech stock.I would like to replace it with another stock.I am looking at ESL and wonder if this would be a good choice.

Thanks
Dolores
Read Answer Asked on August 26, 2016
Q: Shopify is going up everyday since the announcement of the equity issue. Which is a better buy between the two companies KXS and SH.

Also do you know anything about the company Data Communications Management Corp (DMC). Is this company safe to invest in?
Read Answer Asked by Imtiaz on August 22, 2016
Q: You often refer to a stock as expensive or as cheap or inexpensive. Can you explain what you mean by that. For example are KXS and SIS cheap or expensive? What about BOS at its current price?
Read Answer Asked by David on August 22, 2016
Q: I seem to have been afflicted with the same problem other members have experienced. This is my third question, previous two have gone unanswered. I know my question credits are sufficient and your site confirms the question has been sent. Have you identified why this is happening?

My last question related to the most recent conference call with Kinaxis management. There was frequent reference to an inflection point and I am wondering what this is and how it would relate to the company's prospects.
Mike
Read Answer Asked by michael on August 19, 2016
Q: Peter, I have weighting of 20% in Tech (which I want to keep) and it is split evenly between CSU, DSG, ESL and ZQQ. Right now there appears to be more interest in KXS and OTC vs. ESL or DSG. I have a 135% gain in ESL in my taxable account. What do professional do when faced with this? Sell a great company (ESL); pay taxes and buy a faster growing company that investors like at the current time, or keep the great company?
Read Answer Asked by stephen on August 11, 2016
Q: Hi Peter and 5i Team.

I have one account (representing about 20% of my overall portfolio) where I hold only the Balanced Equity Portfolio. KXS is pushing 7% of this account, so I was thinking of trimming it back to about 5%. All other positions in the account are at about 4% to 5%, except HCG, NFI, and PKI, each at about 2%.

Do you think I should top up one of the half-positions, keep some cash handy for future purchases, or leave well enough alone and keep KXS at 7%? (Note: I also own smaller positions in KXS in a couple of TFSA accounts.)

Thanks,

Scott
Read Answer Asked by Scott on August 04, 2016
Q: Hi there,

Thanks for the great service! I purchased KXS when it was added to the Balanced Equity portfolio at 5% weighting. It has performed well and is now about a 7% weighting in my portfolio. Their results are coming out shortly which I presume may have the ability to move the stock much higher or much lower. In your opinion, should I trim my 7% weight to 5% BEFORE or AFTER the results?

Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Michael on August 02, 2016
Q: I currently have, CSU,DSG,TNC,ESL, SYZ. I also have a little bit of MDA, BB, and AVO. I am not sure if these would be considered Tech or not.

I would like to add KXS. My portfolio is ~12% towards this space, and I remember reading that you are ok with 15 or 20%.

Anyhow, before adding KXS, should I sell some of the above, and concentrate my holdings?

I have done well on DSG and am up 70%, should I just sell it and move to KXS, or just add KXS?

Thanks for the guidance.

Cheers.
Read Answer Asked by Colin on July 18, 2016
Q: i read every question and answer everyday and 3 of your favorite companies and 3 companies you continually recommend are shopify, knight and kinaxis.i am overweight all 3. and all 3 are in your model portfolios.
we know knight is protected by its huge cash balance and once it is gone the parameters would change hopefully for the better depending how goodman spends it.
you keep making reference to shopify and kinaxis being expensive, earnings for both aug.3 and aug 4. my question is anything that i should be aware of before earnings. dave
Read Answer Asked by david on July 15, 2016
Q: I have 15% of my well diversified portfolio in Tech stocks. I am thinking of consolidating my 7 stocks into a smaller number of stocks - perhaps down to 5. I have 2%-3% in all the mentioned companies except SYZ at 1%. Any suggestions as to which companies to sell and which ones to "top up" would be appreciated, or maybe just leave as is.
Read Answer Asked by David on July 11, 2016
Q: i own both kxs and sh, they both have been getting hit because of the brexit vote but up until thursday nite they were both flying especially kxs, so my question what do these 2 stocks have to do with great britain or is it just they have gone up a lot , raise cash and sell the winners. dave
Read Answer Asked by david on June 27, 2016
Q: Portfolio weighting a aside. For a young investor if you were topping up two of these, which two would you choose? Cheers
Read Answer Asked by Josh on June 20, 2016
Q: I don't have a lot of tech exposure in my portfolio and am looking to add. Which of the tech companies in the model portfolio should an investor start buying at this point if you could only buy two? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Dathan on June 07, 2016
Q: Hi, in my RRSP I hold most of the Model Portfolio holdings and I also hold 2 of the Growth stocks , XTC and DBO ,.....XTC Ive had for over a year now without much movement on the upside , I"d like to replace it with another of the Growth names, which ones would ou recommend, its worth appox $1300.00..........Thanks,
Read Answer Asked by Costa on June 06, 2016
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