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Q: 5 must own stocks (US/Canada) in your opinion for long term-10 years irrespective of sectors.
Read Answer Asked by Mahendiali on July 30, 2023
Q: It appears that the above companies are trading near record highs.
What is your opinion of a possible purchase of all 3 for a long term hold?
Please rank in order of preference
Read Answer Asked by Terry on July 20, 2023
Q: Pls ahare your favorite health stocks or ETFs. I am looking for growth - medium risk. Thanks
Read Answer Asked by gary on July 18, 2023
Q: Would advise your top picks in Us health care stocks or STFs with moderate risk. Yhanks
Read Answer Asked by gary on July 18, 2023
Q: Peter and crew; I currently hold positions in both CIBC and TORONTO Dominion banks. Both have sat in my portfolio to give balance to a tech heavy US investment program. As a growth investor my thinking is to sell both banks, and add to my U S stocks. Can you share with me your one year opinion on Canadian banks and as well suggest 3 or 4 US growth stocks for a1 to 5 year hold.. I have a fairly high risk tolerance and patience
Read Answer Asked by John on July 17, 2023
Q: Repligen is trading close to the 52-week low and would welcome your analysis of their recent operating performance and market potential looking forward.  Post-pandemic and mindful of competitors in the same space does their stock have any opportunity to excel in the coming year, and if held as a position in a long-term growth portfolio, could you please rank the appeal of Repligen in descending order versus your go-to favorites in the same general space.  Thanks kindly for your thoughts.
Read Answer Asked by Michael on July 07, 2023
Q: Hi team,

Grateful if you could provide a list of your top growth stocks, ten Canadian and ten American, for the next 2-3 years, excluding “lottery tickets”, with short comments and a risk evaluation. Please deduct as many credits as you see fit.

Thank you for the good work,

Jacques IDS
Read Answer Asked by Jacques on July 06, 2023
Q: Hi group can you help me understand how to get a dividend for my cash that I have presently (100 k ) its sitting in my RBC direct investing account / they do not give any interest for this money.
Can you walk me thru what to buy / I need its to be liquid (I want to use the cash if/when we go into a pullback/ downturn.

2 nd question
Please give me your top pick in each sector regardless of US or CAD

Thanks for your help with this
Read Answer Asked by Terence on July 04, 2023
Q: Could you give me your recommendations for the 10 best US medium or large cap companies that pay small or no dividends?
Read Answer Asked by jacques on June 29, 2023
Q: Hi 5i,
What are your current thoughts on continuing to hold onto ILMN given the current situation with Grail and activist investor involvement?

If I were to sell what would you recommend in the U.S. Healthcare Sector?
I currently own ABBV, IHI, TMO and WELL.

Thank you!!
Read Answer Asked by Brian on June 26, 2023
Q: Hi 5i,

For Guardant Health (GH) would you recommend holding or selling at this time?

If selling is your recommendation please provide 5 US healthcare stocks that have good prospects in the near to long term.

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Brian on June 24, 2023
Q: hi, portfolio analytics says I am underweight basic materials, consumer defensive, healthcare and industrials. can you provide a few Canadian and US equities in each category, that you would consider for medium to long term investment.
cheers, chris ( take as many credits as you need ).
further, I am overweight in utilities ( 18.6% of total holdings ) and financials ( 25.5 %). do you recommend trimming these 2 sectors? and in financials I own BN and BAM ( which I would suspect actually have cross-over with other sectors? )??
cheers, chris
Read Answer Asked by chris on June 23, 2023
Q: Since the healthcare sector in Canada is quite limited, I would like to explore the option of purchasing 100% US healthcare stocks to better represent this sector. I would greatly appreciate it if you could suggest six stocks that I should consider. Thank you in advance.
Read Answer Asked by Esther on June 23, 2023
Q: What stocks would you suggest for a TFSA of about $70k for a 30 y.o. with a 10-15 year time frame?
Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by A on June 21, 2023
Q: I have owned ENB for 6 years / it continues to disappoint. Russ Healy was on BNN saying net overall asset value continues to drop in the last 5 year's and i agree with him as my performance is negative (down 6% in the last 5 years, (this is excluding the dividend . Kindly explain how you continue to recommend this stock as it clearly is a loser in value the dividend is its only advantage... would TRP not be a better risk return or even Fortis / one of the pipes for that matter Thanks for your help with this . Lastly what is your top 3 picks in the health care sector
Read Answer Asked by Terence on June 13, 2023
Q: What US Healthcare stock or ETF would you recommend to replace ABBV?
Read Answer Asked by kim on June 12, 2023
Q: Apart from Big Tech, are there any names (in and out of the tech sector) that 'should' be able to capitalize on the rise of AI in the near to medium term?
Read Answer Asked by Jim on June 09, 2023
Q: Hello, with the current inflation scene, economy and interest rates, expectations of a pause by Federal Reserve and possibility of a soft landing, what sectors will be your favorites to invest/overweight today with a 5-10 years horizon ? And, in these sectors, what will be your best 3 picks, based on current valuation and future growth, in order, with suggested price levels to buy/add ?

Thank You
Read Answer Asked by rajeev on June 08, 2023