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Q: What are your thoughts on SIS's premature earnings release with disappointing EBITDA miss and lowered guidance? Also they pointed to less acquisitions and more focusing on getting the house in order. Obviously not good to hear they are struggling in Europe. I have always liked this mgmt and I feel they handled this primarily negative release well and I appreciate their transparency and guidance on how they plan to fix the issues. But what does this mean for a company that has struggled for the last 5 months, are we now looking at another year plus of lowered guidance, less or no acquisitions, restructuring, and beaten down share price? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Adam on February 20, 2019
Q: my portfolio is levreraged with about 80 %in equity more than half in growth I understand this is contrary to all good financial planning principles. late last year the correction was scary.
I like to sell 4 or 5stocks for starters.
I am grouping them and would like you to tag which one or two is weakest link in each grouping over say two year time frame.
One( blue chip )growth amzn coog fb msft sq aap
two midcap?shop pho nvda


three small cap tsgi nft tfii brp tcl,a dol gc toy sj
I have not included stocks are more solid like bam constellation and or pay reasonable (over 2 %)dividends
Read Answer Asked by thambirajah on February 20, 2019
Q: Hi Peter and Staff
You have been generally positive on BPY.UN -when it got down near $20 I averaged down and with the price jump have been feeling good about that - I have looked at scotia’s recent analysis of the most recent quarter . I own a lot of different REITS and it is the only one they show with an AFFO payout ratio of over 100% up to and including 2020- I know you can calculate things differently but assuming they use the same metrics on all REITS this is the worst one? Comments and analysis are appreciated
Thanks for all you do
Dennis
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on February 20, 2019
Q: I am interested in investing in this US etf SRVR which holds 45 percent of its funds in American Tower, Crown Castle, and Equinix mainly for the anticipated rollout of 5G. Bill Gates has just recently bought into Crown Castle. This etf has only been on the market since last May but has a 15 percent return to date. Can you tell me if this etf looks good as opposed to buying individual stocks as I prefer the etf basket approach. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Helen on February 20, 2019
Q: Hello -
I currently own BIP.UN, BEP.UN and BPY.UN in a CAD RRSP account. These three stocks pay dividends in USD. I do already have a USD RRSP account that holds American stocks. Would it make sense to move these three Brookfields to the USD account to avoid the exchange conversion fee when I receive quarterly dividends? I don't believe there is any issue in holding Canadian stocks in a U.S. account.

Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by James on February 20, 2019
Q: Is it a good time to buy WSP. It seems to me that if SNC ends up being convicted, and then banned from Federal government contracts, that WSP (also HQ in Montreal) could be a big beneficiary with lots of new business. Why does the media only mention possible job losses for SNC, wouldn't WSP just hire many of those people anyway?
Read Answer Asked by David on February 19, 2019
Q: Canadian BT global growth fund is up 11% this year, rose 15% last year, and has beaten the S&P/TSX Composite on an annualized basis since inception in 2006.
What are your thoughts on this fund? How has it performed so well?
E.g. Versus the 5i managed portfolios down by 10+% last year, how did it manage to rise +15% last year?
Read Answer Asked by Curtis on February 19, 2019
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