Investment Q&A

Q: What do you think about Nebius for a two year hold?
And why is it so volatile? Something to do with having little institutional coverage/ownership?

Q: I looked in my Brokerage account today and noticed that my former Gear Energy (GXE) shares had been converted into Lotus Exploration (LTC) shares and cash. It looks like 62% of my Gear holding was converted to Lotus shares and 38% was received in cash (at a very low valuation).

Since the transaction Lotus has lost 29% in just 2 weeks.
I don't know how such a sleazy deal got past the TSX regulators? This reminds me of the bad old days when the TSX head honchos enabled frauds such as Bre-ex, Sino-Forest and so on or the even worse Vancouver stock exchange days.
In total I am down 53% on my original Gear purchase in Jan'23.

I have 2 questions;
1) does LTC pay a dividend?
2) is there any valaue at all in LTC or is this whole thing a fraud?

Regards,
Ticked off Dave

Q: This morning in an answer to Heather you quoted JEPQ as having a yield of 12.50% ..... My sources say 9.50% .... I'm interested at 12.50% but not the latter. Could you confirm the dividend yield ? Thanks for your terrific service .....

Q: It seems that every day the new from south of the border gets crazier. Today (Friday) the markets reacted very negatively. Let's assume the news continues to get crazier. What do you think the markets will do. Is most of the insanity already priced in? Just how bad do you think it can get?

Q: Please rank these stock for risk relative to US Tariffs from High to Low.....yes, wonder how defensive these CDN stocks are......Many thanks.....Tom

Q: Would you be comfortable adding to a position at these levels?

Q: Looking to expand my international holdings. What are your thoughts of MercadoLibre after strong earnings?

Q: Regarding Tom's question on Feb 21, regarding rating companies for tariff risk high to low, you rated GIB.A as the second highest risk of Tom's list of companies. As this company is near the top of my watch list to buy, would you expand on this company's risk exposure to tariffs.

Q: What is purpose of the March 6 meeting.

Q: Hello,

One of your members was inquiring re: books about managing your investments in retirement.

Daryl Diamond's "Your Retirement Income Blueprint" is an excellent resource. Lots of insights in terms of how to structure your income while your portfolio continues to grow and the most important topic of minimizing taxes during decumulation. However, it is less about "investing" and more about how to manage and structure your retirement income/savings - so you have money to live on while the rest continues to grow, and in the most tax effective way.

Q: Looking for your take on this ETF to determine if better alternatives exist?

Q: Hi - you have often commented that you see BN as a better growth stock than BAM, and yet BN doesn't seem to be yielding a lot more growth.... How long do you think until it truly overshadows BAM?

Q: I noticed that Warren Buffet has sold his positions in VOO and SPY . Given that he may have just been using them for a holding pattern, that did not bother me too much. But, now I see that he is investing in Japan. This makes you think that he might have found something worth investing in. Do you think that may be the case in a strong way and that it may be profitable to follow his lead? If so, would the above mentioned value etf be the right choice or might there be something better? I don’t want to own the individual stocks.
Thanks as always

Q: Is this a B/S/H for a long term hold for cap appreciation?

Q: Looking at the insider trading of Enbridge Directors, I noted that the number of shares held by the Directors in May 2024 was over 900,000. The corresponding number of shares held by Directors on February 20, 2025 dropped to about 210,000.
Can you please comment with respect to inside trading at this company ? Is the drop in the number of shares held by the directors an issue ?
Thanks

Q: For a long term hold how would you apportion $30,000 among Axon,Crwd,Nbis

Q: A suggestion in response to Ahmed's Feb 20th question about resources on how to manage a portfolio approaching / during retirement: "Secure Retirement" by Jacques Lussier. A bit academic but I hope you find the concepts useful.
https://rpc.cfainstitute.org/research/foundation/2019/secure-retirement

Q: Forgot to ask about NFLX-US. Please rank this stock for risk relative to US Tariffs from High to Low.....yes, wonder how defensive these US stocks are......Many thanks.....Tom

Q: I would like to create a portfolio (10 years and more) for a non-profit organization. The return objective is 5% or more. The amount to be invested is $40,000. Is it possible to achieve this objective with ETFs? Which ETFs should I buy for this account?
Or should I pick a few names from your Balance Equity portfolio?
THANKS

Q: Do you have data on their current sector allocations? I have tried text searching and reviewing the Q&As for the past many months but cannot find anything. I also have positions in BEP, BIP and BIPC but I believe they are more narrowly focused on their sectors from what I read.