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Q: This is a follow up to my question the other day regarding the Canadian government backstopping mortgages .... as well as querying the best option for dividend income if looking solely at preferreds, bonds and the Canadian banks ( given their attractive dividends and perceived safety - of course unless something really dreadful happens to wipe out their financial reserves and force them to cancel dividends)

My original question might have been a bit vague regarding this part of it. My apologies.

I would appreciate your assessment of these 3 options with dividend safety and size of yield ahead of any share price increases.

Thanks again.
Read Answer Asked by Donald on April 24, 2020
Q: which gold mutual fund would you recommend?
of Dynamic or Mckenzie which do you like best?
Read Answer Asked by Gary on April 24, 2020
Q: How much of an influence do American investors have on the price of our banks? Many Canadian investors have bank stocks and rely on their dividends for income.

Steve Eisman of "The Big Short" was talking about how an interesting short he sees is Canadian banks and that he has been short for some time. He says the Canadian banks have not had a credit cycle in 30 years, they are extremely unprepared for it and will have real problems.

What is your opinion?

Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Mary on April 24, 2020
Q: Hello, I see that you will be adding QSR to the Income Portfolio. Is that because you will eventually remove AW from it? If you had to choose between the two, which one would you buy today ? Regards, Gervais
Read Answer Asked by Gervais on April 24, 2020
Q: HI GUYS
Just noticed when i printed out my T5 summary of the AMLP ETF it lists the distributions paid on the 1st line as Return of Capital. I would have thought it would be listed on the 3rd line as Foreign Income.
Just wondering if you guys happen to know if i need to enter this on my tax return. After looking around on Intuit turbotax, all i could find was maybe report it as Foreign Income, but even under foreign income, there is no place for "return of Capital"
Thanks Gord
Read Answer Asked by Gordon on April 24, 2020
Q: Is the only difference between these funds is one is hedged and the other non hedged.

Why do you prefer non hedged and if so what are the reasons?

And is the a BMO product similar to hxq?
Read Answer Asked by Thomas on April 23, 2020
Q: I would appreciate your thoughts about IDHD - Invesco S and P International developed High Dividend Low Volatility ETF. Thinking of selling and replacing with Corning or what?
Also your thoughts on PBH?
with thanks,
Connie
Read Answer Asked by Constance on April 23, 2020
Q: My daughter is 27 years old and is looking to invest around $35,000 as her first investment. She is considering investing 40% in Canadian equities (ZLB, PDC, and XRE), 50% in US Equities (VUS and DXU), and 10% in International Equities (FCIQ and VEE).

As an initial investment, does this balance seem reasonable or would you have other recommendations? Is this sufficiently diversified or are there too many funds?

Thank you!
Read Answer Asked by Geoff on April 23, 2020
Q: can you list the 5 best gold stocks in order of 1st choice to 5th?
Read Answer Asked by Gary on April 23, 2020
Q: I put in a bid this morning for VET at $5.15 & at that time it appeared the bid would be filled because about 4200 shares or people were bidding at that price while 5600 were asking.The stock opened much higher & the bid was not filled. Why does this happen? When someone puts in a limit order to sell for example, does the market give them the best price or the price they entered for a sell?Appreciate your help, as always
Dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on April 23, 2020
Q: Pardon my logic (or lack thereof as it 5:40 am). I did a comparative chart of Shop and AMZN for a period of 1 year and 3 months. Over those two time periods SHOP is up 197% and 65 %, respectively while AMZN is up 21% and 24% over these two respective time periods. I am using the G&M watchlist.
If there is a hint of logic in Shop's share price would that not make AMZN a screaming buy?
Read Answer Asked by Danny-boy on April 23, 2020
Q: I'm thinking of moving two stocks from my non-registered account across to my TFSA. My question is whether this transfer between two accounts is likely to trigger tax liability from CRA. At the moment, there is neither any measurable capital gain or capital loss for the two stocks in the non-registered account.
Read Answer Asked by RANDALL on April 23, 2020
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