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Q: I am a conservative dividend investor. However I have about 3% of my investments in high risk high reward stocks all in a TFSA account. I have made adjustments to this account and am thinking of adding one or all of the listed stocks. Propel, Kneat, Lumine and 5N Plus. In what order would you purchase the 4 listed stocks and do you have any recommendations that you would purchase before these 4 for a high risk reward account.

Wayne
Read Answer Asked by Wayne on December 04, 2025
Q: I thought I would ask for your thoughts. TD Webroker today just introduced stock lending to Taxable accounts. Customers who opt-in earn taxable interest income for lending any stock of their choosing. The lending interest is split 50/50 with TD. If you lend a dividend paying stock you get the dividend but it is paid as taxable interest. Can I get your pros and cons for enrolling in this program. Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Ian on December 04, 2025
Q: I’m a62 year old retired investor with an excellent DB Pension and I’m working on a supplemental cash flow with my TFSAs,I have held the above stocks for about 4 years all roughly 10-12K in value and have been set up as DRIPs
My question is could you recommend another 8-10 Cdn dividend stocks($ 100K of room) I would add to this account coming from another TFSA,these could possibly have 4-6 % capitol growth and 4-6% dividend yield and in 3 years I would go from a DRIP to monthly or quarterly cash payments,I am medium risk and the sectors would not matter ….Thanks Greg
Read Answer Asked by Greg on December 04, 2025
Q: What order would you buy today based on current prices?
Read Answer Asked by Chris on December 04, 2025
Q: Similarly to the question asked by David regarding your Income portfolio, for B-E portfolio, what would be your top 10 stocks in the order you would buy. Based on anticipated total return (dividends + stock price increase) for the next five years expectations. I would also appreciate if you could add to these stocks your return expectations and risk ratios on the scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being highest. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Michael on December 04, 2025
Q: Greetings 5i,

We are possibly entering a period of change in the direction of interest rates. Canada and the US could be heading in different interest rate directions. Up for debate I suppose.

Could 5i provide a quick refresher on sectors and possibly companies that do well with rising interest rates and those that do poorly. A broad explanation would be appreciated as well as your thoughts on the direction of rates today.

Cheers!
Read Answer Asked by Duane on December 04, 2025
Q: I recently asked a question stating that i need to increase my holdings in basic materials and the utilities sectors. You were kind enough to offer some choices. I did mention there that I wanted to avoid dividends. But that is difficult for these sectors. I didn’t mention, however, that as well as sectors I need to also bring up my U.S. and outside North America holdings a bit. And I thought this might be a good way to accomplish that. So, May I add to the question by asking for possibilities in these regions?
Thanks for this great service
Read Answer Asked by joseph on December 04, 2025
Q: Follow-up comment re: usefulness of customer data in training AI agents, you say.... "The key of course is adapting quickly before customers even start to consider their own solutions." I do not share this view that customers with time can complete with LMN.

My point is the detailed data on vast numbers of customers within a vertical can not be replicated, and is the CSU/LMN/TOI superpower...to train AI agents specific to their customers needs. Customers could have all the human intelligence and time, but without the vast data to train the AI agent the result will be inferior.

Your reply implies a customer and LMN have equal capabilities to develop AI agents, my thesis is they are not.

All of this to ask 5i confirmation that your view is existing CSU data sets to train AI agents is not an 'essential' ingredient....and customers can 'equally' develop effective AI solutions for their business.
Read Answer Asked by Glenn on December 04, 2025
Q: Not a question but an observation. Interesting times with the smaller Canadian banks and other financial firms. Stephen Smith selling First National and then his Fairstone buying LB. Then EQB ( which he has a position in ) getting involved with the Weston’s PC Financial. Then there is the Desmarais family and Wealthsimple.
Read Answer Asked by Derek on December 04, 2025
Q: TD Webbroker is now offering stock lending from self directed investing accounts. They say the value of the loaned stocks are protected with funds equal to market value.

Any other risks or considerations?
Read Answer Asked by Mark on December 04, 2025
Q: Hi 5i Guys

Further question on DPM.

There seems to be a complaint files with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) over DPM failure to disclose material information to its shareholders about serious legal threats related to an ongoing court-ordered suspension of its Loma Larga mining project in Southern Ecuador.

This seems rather serious for the company.

Do you consider this a material blocker to investing in DPM or rather just an legacy issue from a previous owner of the mine and DPM is OK to consider buying?

Thanks
Ken
Read Answer Asked by Kenneth on December 04, 2025
Q: How would you know when CSU's price action has "settled" and that it is safe to add in? What indicators would you look for?


Price today is $3321.04. Morningstar gives CSU a fair value of $3,744.01. And it is a rare event in its history that CSU's price falls below its fair value.

Would you add to it today?
Read Answer Asked by Anh on December 04, 2025