Investment Q&A

Q: Just an admin question on your answer to Brad today, re the Manulife Strategic Income Fund. You mentioned that the MER is .97, but I'm seeing that that is for the 'F' series, which as I understand it, if you have an advisor where you're paying a fee, you get to buy the 'F' version (which is the trailer removed version). But if you're doing your own, I understood that the MER would be about 1 point higher than the 'F' series. So in this case, 1.97% Mer. Is this correct?
Thanks very much...

Q: Is this an opportune time to harvest a tax loss for ECI? Is there anything in the next 30 days that has a realistic possibility of causing it to reverse its steady decline (which seems to have no technical support for quite a ways yet)?

Q: Good morning team, Anything you have to add to the relentless drop on ECI ? Maybe time to get out?
Thx,

Q: I AM PURCHASING A FULL POSITION IN GOLD, A LITTLE AGGRESSIVE, HOW WOULD YOU RATE THESE STOCKS AND WHY OR YOUR BEST ALTERNATIVE.
THANKS WAYNE

Q: Regarding GUD and ENDP Asked by Serge and others waiting for GUD to make a move. Considering debt load, Enbridge merged with Spectra, Davis and Henderson bought Harland Financial. What happened to ENB share price and where is D&H today. Could Knight be biting off too much as well if they were to move on ENDP considering the debt they would inherit?
Quote: "ENDP has more than $7B in debt and less than $600M in cash flow in the last 12 months. The stock is down 50% in a year. Interest expenses of $488M last year ate up nearly all of its total cash flow. Earnings are lower than they were 8 years ago."

Q: I have US $ Portfolio: FB,SHOP,CGNX,AMZN,NVDA,SQ,NFLX,MA.
Yesterday I sold all of CCGNX because of down trend and Dead cross on
EMA50 & EMA200. I have around 20 K US$ from the sell.
Please suggest some some US stocks to replace CGNX that you would buy
right now or should I wait for change of trend to up to repurchase CGNX.
Andrew

Q: What is your view on ECN price action lately and the press release today?

Thanks

Q: Could you please comment on Jamieson Wellness? It's up lately, but with no news.
Many thanks.

Q: Would you have a comment on Largo LGO & Fennex Pharma FRX ? RAK

Q: Vulcan is a US company selling in the US, so I think they will see some benefit from the tax changes. Your thoughts on the company and whether you think they will see further benefit from the infrastructure spending that is in the works. Thank you.

Q: Hi,
What do you think about Ford?
The tariff news today should help their sales in China which have been lagging.
Thank you very much
Eddie

Q: Are you aware of any ETF that focus on emerging market with a value focus ? I only found FLQE and TLTE that have a lower P/E and that have a lower % of tech compare to VEE or VWO.

Q: I am looking at VGG as a way to use Canadian dollars to acquire a reasonable number (around 70 I believe) of dividend growing US large caps. Do you think this ETF makes sense for US exposure to dividend growers or would you prefer to invest using US dollars and select 5 or 6 dividend growers (any suggestions in that case). Lastly do you consider this a sensible investment strategy for part of a balanced portfolio at this time for a 3 year hold. I appreciate your input as always - Ken

Q: Hello 5i team,
I was wondering if there is an ETF in canada that contains provincial bonds. I am guessing VAB may contain these as well as Canadian bonds.

Also what is the best website that would have breakdowns of what is in canadian ETFs?

Thank You,
Andrew

Q: I recently started adding to my position at $16. What is your view of the long-term prospects of this fund

Q: Hi 5i
If one purchased KBL believing in long-holding support near $38, the fact the internal investments looked good going forward and the business is relatively stable to growing, how much further below the break of technical support would a good and profitable investor give this name?
Current price is $36.01, trend is down on small daily volume and on no news.
It is beginning to look more like I purchased into a stock that is continuing a three year down trend.
Is this an exit given the price decline does not appear to be abating?
Or does one continue to hold for the business stability and future benefits from investments?
It did not appear to me as though I was buying into a stock in a down trend but the chart is showing me a different reality.
Thoughts on this situation?
Thanks
Dave

Q: A guest on MarketCall mentioned both Hubspot and DXC Technologies.
Please give your opinion of both these U.S, companies.

I was considering SPOT. Would you prefer either of these 2 to Spot?
Thank you.

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Q: Recently the Globe & Mail has an article discussing the merits of using a one-Balanced ETF strategy and recommended the following three ETFs: VBAL, CBD and HRA. What would you consider to be the best one? Also, when I reviewed the information on their respective websites, I can only find Management Fee info as opposed to MER info. Is it because they are all ETFs that are composed of various ETFs. So the ultimate MER of these balanced ETFs would be the sum of the quotes Management Fee plus the MER of the underlying ETFs?
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Q: Your thoughts please.
Kind regards

Q: To follow-up on Claire's comment, is there an reasoned/optimal % allocation to each FI ETF (i.e. evenly split)? I have: CBO 20%, CPD 12%, HFR 26%, XBB 17%, XHY 12%, LQD 13%. I consider HFR as low-risk cash-like holding.

Thank you again.