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Q: During the merger period in the Canadian Cannabis Industry, who do you see as the potential winners?
Read Answer Asked by Van on December 01, 2017
Q: Your monthly balanced equity report states that the BE portfolio targets an annualized 10% return. This will obviously fluctuate and there will be good and bad years, but if you were to benchmark against say the S&P 500 (or any other benchmark if you have a preferred choice), what sort of alpha would you expect? After all, every equity investor strives for better than market returns right, otherwise we would just buy a low cost market ETF and be done with it.
Read Answer Asked by Steven on December 01, 2017
Q: Hello Peter and Ryan,
Cannimed has provided the following press release
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171130006170/en/Actions-Words-Aurora-CEO%E2%80%99s-Actions-Reveal-Aurora
which basically illustrates insider selling by Aurora executives on November 28, 2017 while Aurora is in the midst of a takeover of Cannimed.
How is this recent information on insider selling obtained? I am thinking of adding to Savaria Corp giving it total of 5 percent weight and Knight to 7 percent given its recent weakness. Any comments please. Thanks again
Read Answer Asked by umedali on December 01, 2017
Q: You had responded to a previous member question about Neptune Tech waiting for its Investor communications on Nov 28th. I see it has sold the Krill Oil business and is now into cannabis derivative products. The current p/e is stated as 5.5 x and there was quite a bit of insider buying (albeit at lower prices). Has your opinion changed as to whether this would be a good speculative purchase for me?
Thanks,
Brian
Read Answer Asked by Brian on December 01, 2017
Q: I have been looking but unable to find the names/tickers for US bank stock etfs. Would you please give me the names of the the large and mid caps etfs you recommend in US dollars?
Thank you. Cathy Further to my previous question re US bank stocks etfs, would you recommend buying them now?
Thanks, cathy
Read Answer Asked by Catherine on December 01, 2017
Q: I am in my 30's and have a fairly diversified portfolio both geographically and by sector. Currently i own 100% equities with roughly a 70/30 split of growth to value companies. This money is for retirement and i don't plan on touching it for the unforeseeable future. I don't want to do anything drastic but i would like to get slightly more defensive going into next year. The bubbles i see in cannabis/bitcoin at the moment as well as i see many friends/family who normally don't invest or talk about investing starting to put money into the market (mostly in weed/bitcoin stocks) scares me slightly and i feel we could have a minor or slightly larger pullback at any time. Which of the following would you suggest. Add a 10% weighting in fixed income? Trim some of my growth winners (TOY,KXS,SHOP,etc) and add to some of my value names (XTC,OTC,WPK,etc)? Trim some winners to have my cash position move from 5% to 10-12% and add to positions when i see more value? I realize these can be personal questions but i am looking for your feedback anyways.
Read Answer Asked by justin on December 01, 2017
Q: I Would like to do some rebalancing. If you were to pick a stock in the financial sector for 4% of your total portfolio which stock would it be.? Also staying in the financial sector but looking for your suggestion for a stock with a bit more risk/reward. Looking for maybe a 20%+ growth target and this stock would be in TFSA and be 2% or less of total holdings. Not looking for ETFs at this time
Thank-you. Terry
Read Answer Asked by Terry on December 01, 2017
Q: I understand that CAR.UN has better overall assets than MRG.UN, but the difference in valuation seems ridiculous. MRG is trading at 80 percent of NAV and 14 times 2018 AFFO, while CAR is 105 percent and 21.8 times , respectively (all per TD). It seems to me at this valuation, Morguard should just take over the chunk of MRG it doesn't own. Thoughts?
Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Alex on December 01, 2017
Q: What is your opinion of Miniso's effect on Dollarama? I was going to start a position on the current pullback but am reconsidering now...

http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/is-dollarama-about-to-meet-its-match-miniso-japans-2-99-store-plans-to-open-500-shops

Thanks
Read Answer Asked by John on December 01, 2017
Q: Thank you for continued great support and unbiased opinions.

I plotted a few favourite 5i Technology stocks with high P/Es along with the Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSEARCA:VGT). Except for CSU (crazy +ve outlier),
they all cluster closely in returns over the long-term (i.e. 15+ years).
So, why bet on a few horses with such risk (P/E > 50) when one can own the track, make about the same return, with much less risk (P/E = 6.6)?

I think we all understand the advantages of ETFs in general, but considering the high P/Es specifically in the Tech sector, it really begs the question above. Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Paul on December 01, 2017
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