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Q: Hi Peter, Ryan, and Team,

In the Real Estate sector, and across all our accounts, we own DIR.UN, FSV, and IIP.UN. FSV has been a stellar performer, and without 5i’s initial recommendation, it wouldn’t have been considered, and is certainly one we want to keep.

However, when I look at the charts for DIR.UN and IIP.UN, I see that Dream Industrial has a much better long-term record. Does a residential real estate stock need to be owned in one’s portfolio? If IIP.UN isn’t really necessary, I’m considering selling it and putting the proceeds into DIR.UN. Both IIP.UN and DIR.UN have made money, but of course, Dream has made a lot more.

Your comments, as always, are greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for your advice.
Read Answer Asked by richard on May 22, 2024
Q: Hypothetically, a person has $100,000 to invest in a non-registered account. If this was you: a) currently, what would be your top stock/etf CDN picks? (technology excluded; Balanced/growth focus, not income); 5 year time frame b) how would you allocate the 100K? Thank you. 5iResearch has been fantastic!
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Read Answer Asked by Kel on May 22, 2024
Q: Can you comment on its most recent Q please. Also, Ace Beverage has acquired Nude RTD beverage. There has also been some recent change to the board. Seems like much activity has been going on with this company relatively speaking. Can you comment on whether you see the recent Q, additional RTD acquisition of Nude has potential to
generate some growth or do you continue to view it as an income stock. Would you buy, sell or hold the stock. If sell what would you buy instead?
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Read Answer Asked by MANFRED on May 21, 2024
Q: Hello

Where do you suggest 5i members reference historical P/E avg s for any CDN or USA equities ?
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Read Answer Asked by John on May 21, 2024
Q: I’d like to know what you think of small cap CDB.V (Cordoba Minerals). Their main project (Alacran) is in Columbia. Recently they partnered up with Chinese mine construction co. JCHX, who purchased 50% of the Alacran project for $US100,000,000. This certainly makes the current market cap of CAD$45M look cheap. Years ago this was a favoured stock of Brent Cook and Joe Mazumdar, but they lost interest when Robert Friedland took control of the company (via IE), citing that further development had lost its urgency and near term returns unlikely. They were quite correct, as it’s 5 years later and little has happened except share price collapse helped by RF diluting retail shareholders to oblivion. Things do finally seem to be looking positive with the JCHX involvement, so I’d like your opinion, how the future might play out for this stock considering IE’s significant control position and the small retail float, – e.g. Given RF’s prior behaviour in similar circumstances do you think he’s likely to either promote this and liquidate part of his investment in future, or continue to grind the retail float to dust? (PS, they have another greenfield asset in Nevada with Bell Copper (BCU), but it’s not clear if this option has any value)
Read Answer Asked by petra on May 21, 2024
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