Investment Q&A

Q: Hi there,

I’m reading about the impact that the forest fires is having on lumber industry and lumber prices have jumped since the end of May. What’s your thoughts on a short term trade in IFP or one of the other lumber companies?

Q: If I buy ZDI in my TFSA, will the dividends be subject to a withholding tax?

Q: Hi Folks,
I am looking to add ABT to my TFSA. I have PFE, ABBV and GILD in other accounts. Can I have your opinion on ABT or do you have another name that you can suggest for my TFSA.
Thanks

Q: What are your thoughts on DISH? Upside?

Q: In a registered account as a single long term etf for bonds is hyi an acceptable choice over zag? If interest rates go furhther up or down, is there more risk with hyi? These are currently showing monthly distributions of HYI: 6.72% and ZAG: 3.56%.
Retired investor...

Q: -What are your thoughts on these money market funds. I'm looking for a place to park some cash and gain a yield for the short term.

Are they taxed as dividend income or interest?

Any thoughts on timing entry and exit?

Thanks

Q: Hello 5i,

What is your opinion of SPYI for a RIF.

Safety, Return, Growth and the High Yield it offers? Is this ETF safe as far as preservation of capital?

Thank you.

Q: I understand that you are keen on NVEI as a longterm growth story… could you please explain a bit more about where they fit into the fintech space - eg direct competitors, maybe comparative businesses? Thank you.

Q: Please rank the above companies in order of buying. Thank you

Q: What effect does the change in natural gas,etc prices have on SPB?Does their markup remain pretty constant?

Q: Some suggestions for investing for growth in either India or Japan please.

Q: RESP with 5 years until first withdrawal. Currently only holding is VEQT and approx 30% cash. Looking for some stable compounder companies to sweeten the total return. Please suggest 8 ideas. Thank you

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!!

Q: I realize that you have been pretty much non committal about Evertz Technologies, however, they released what look to be "blow-out" numbers yesterday with a record quarter, record annual revenue and record backlog. The market clearly likes it and I wonder if this might change your view of the company going forward.

Thanks as always.

Q: Apparently there was a crypto or blockchain conference within the last week attended by some of the wealthiest individuals and companies on the planet.

Would you know what it was called?

1.It seems clear that some very influential people want this area to have a place in the world banking and trading worlds.


2. One commentator ( Josh Brown ) expressed the opinion that for the foreseeable future it will be very high risk kind of like gold mines over the years. But there might be money to be made in the picks & shovels companies..

Do you have any suggestions of companies that have merit or look to have potential in that picks & shovels areas?

Thank you

Q: Several of the bigger silver miners are trading at 52 week lows and technically look terrible. Yet silver itself is nowhere near its 52 week low.

Which mid/large cap silver miners have the most leverage to the price of silver?

Q: Hello,
Between these companies, if you had to buy one, which one would you prefer in this cycle and why ?
Thanks
CR

Q: Amerigo, MEG Energy, Minera Alamos, and Interfor are, with others, some of the, to me (i.e. except for Interfor) obscure company holdings of the very successful AEGIS Value fund in the U.S. Are you aware of any other commonalities among these holdings that might make them interesting?

Q: Dividend growth investor here. Was wondering about the quality ACO.X as an investment. Any balance sheet concerns? The rather large portion they own of CU seems to be dictating the performance of their stock price - more less flat-ish over the last few years. So in that regard why would, say, FTS be outperforming CU over the last 5 years by approx. 25%?

Q: Hello 5i Team

I currently hold E-L Financial (ELF), Economic Investment Trust (EVT) and United Corporations (UNC).

Ultimately the total value of these three holdings is 2.84 % of my equity holdings with ELF (0.77 %), EVT (0.66 %) and UNC (1.41 %).

E-L Financial and the controlling family shareholder holds approximately 25% ownership of EVT (through direct ownership) and approximately 53 % (through indirect subsidiaries) with a resulting public float of 21 %.

E-L Financial and the controlling family shareholder holds approximately 55 % of UNC and approximately 23 % (through indirect subsidiaries) with a resulting public float of 21 %.
Through Normal Course Issuer Bids and Substantial Issuer Bids, E-L Financial is very slowly increasing its control (approximately 1 % per year).

I understand all three securities have extremely low trading volumes (less than 500 shares per day and some days no trades). I am looking at a long-term holding period (> 5 years).

Questions

1 – General comments on ELF, EVT and UNC.

2 – Given the very slow creeping takeover (i.e. 20 years to complete takeover), does it make sense to retain holdings of EVT and UNC and sell my holdings of ELF? The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of holdings in my portfolio.

Thank you