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Q: Instead of Globe Investor watchlists, that have lost much of their utility, I now use the barchart.com watchlists, free for up to 20 watchlists. Plenty of useful features, mainly technical ones. If you call up a ticker on your watchlist the chart allows you to access a comparison chart with up to three other tickers (a feature that disappeared with the revamped Google Finance). The bottom of the main page lists recent news items. (I recommended Barchart to Globe Investor, and now the Globe's watchlists are based on barchart data...)
Read Answer Asked by Kurt W on April 19, 2018
Q: I have some USD cash in my USD RRSP account. I do not wish to convert the funds back to CAD. I am looking for some US listed but NOT US domiciled stocks to buy. I am also OK with Canadian companies. I can tolerate a lot of risk. Some suggestions will be appreciated?
Read Answer Asked by Ford on April 19, 2018
Q: Would you consider buying one or both of the above for capital gains over the next 6 mths. Any other suggestions for same objective. This would be in a TFSA.
Read Answer Asked by Roy on April 19, 2018
Q: I am looking at picking up RBC's Quant US Div Leader and they have 2 versions Hedged and Unhedged. With the CDN dollar at close to 80 cents which one would you recommend to purchase for the next year. Some advisors are saying the CDN dollar will be weaker in a year from now. Should you have a balance of Hedged and Unhedged of the same fund?
Read Answer Asked by Brian on April 19, 2018
Q: I currently have a weighting of 8 % Canadian tech companies. For diversification I hold CSU, OTEX, SYZ, ENGH and KXS. My largest holdings are in the larger companies, specifically CSU at 5% and OTEX at 3%. I would like to diversify my portfolio into international stocks. To this end, in the high tech sphere I have started to buy XQQ. Since XQQ is an ETF, and so is diversified, I plan to bring XQQ up to 10%. Note that I currently have 20% in VFV. So my US exposure would be 20% VFV and 10% XQQ. Do you see any downside to this plan? Note that XQQ is hedged, are you aware of a US tech ETF that is not hedged?
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on April 19, 2018
Q: Hi Peter
Do you think it is time to buy back ENB.
What is your outlook for SHOP. I am thinking of adding to my position.
I don't have any health stock at the moment, do you have any suggestions?
Thanks
Margita
Read Answer Asked by Margita Elisabet on April 19, 2018
Q: Hello 5i,
I have a question which I don't know if it falls in your domain. But, i will try it. I have been thinking about gradually switching my utilities sector towards renewable energy. Currently I hold Algonquin and Emera which I will want to keep. { I know Emera is not on the renewals side, but i have a large cap gain and I don't want to pay the tax. There are other reasons to keep it, too}. Then, I have Enb and transcanada, which I would plan to sell if they come back a bit. I currently have about 9% in utilities where I think you recommend 15 for a retired person; but I am ok with that and am overweight technology and industrials. could you suggest a name or some names which would round out in a balanced way such a sector allocation?
thanks as always for the great service
Read Answer Asked by joseph on April 19, 2018
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