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Q: I am a long term Buy and hold investor with more focus on dividend paying stocks. I have roughly 19% of my total portfolio in Financial sector. 16% of that is from financial stocks and 3% from ETFs (market ETFs financial portion). 8.2% in five (TD, RY, CM, BNS, BMO) banks, 2.5% in two Insurance(SLF and MFC), and 4.2% in financials preferred (IGM.PR.B, GWO.PR.M, PWF.PRF, BIP.PR.E). I think am Ok with my Insurance and preferred weighing. Two questions:
• Considering the current conditions, is 8.2% in five banks OK or should I trim some and invest in some other sectors?
• TD and RY have higher weighing with TD at 3.3% and RY at 1.9%, the rest three roughly 1% each, Should I sell some of TD and RY and buy other banks or something else?

In case you need my overall asset allocation:
Equity: 63%, Fixed income (including cash): 22%, Real estate: 6.5%, Preferred: 8.5%
CDN: 73% (Equity: 48%, Fixed Income: 21% and Real estate: 4%), US: 18% and Global: 9%
Four highest weighing (59%) sectors are: Multi sectors (Market ETFS): 25%, Financials: 16%, Utilities: 11%, telecom: 7%, the rest in various other sectors.
Read Answer Asked by Naren on September 04, 2019
Q: Your wild guess on the take over bid for Transat, and on scale of probability 100% is being certain, that the takeover will go through. If the deal doesn't go through do you think it price will go down to the $ 5 level? How this will be affected by Westjet takeover bid now being challenged by Air Canada. Do you see opportunity of buying either at current prices? Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Saad on September 04, 2019
Q: the score and lightspeed are by far my 2 biggest holdings.i like to overweight winners especially when they hit 52 week highs.
if lspd is added to the tsx in 10 days, obviously this is a positive but is it a one time blip or does it even matter.
and the score, new investor , huge volume very liquid , 52 week high. nfl starts thursday. can this company get taken out and can iyou see 1.50 in the stock.
dave
Read Answer Asked by david on September 04, 2019
Q: Crescent Point Energy just announced the sale of their Utah assets plus some Saskatchewan property, reducing their debt by almost a billion. With their reduced Cap/Ex, share buy backs, and paying down their debt is this the time to jump in? They appear to still have many years of proven reserves and a large 160000+BPD production and great potential for share appreciation.
Appreciate your opinion.
Thanks Gord
Read Answer Asked by gord on September 04, 2019
Q: What securities would you recommend for an investment in apartments or multi residential in Canada. Any that offer better relative value? Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Albert on September 04, 2019
Q: I recently came back from a vacation in the US and thought it might be a good time to make an initial investment in the diabetes space.
Given the extensive research that you do can you recommend two or three top ideas for currently investing in this space for a medium to higher risk investor. I know you do not specialize in non-Canadian equities but country does not matter.
Thanks for all you do!!!
Read Answer Asked by Thomas on September 04, 2019
Q: I no longer have any materials stocks since I have sold WEF, what other materials stock(s) would you recommend at this time to replace WEF?
Thanks
Read Answer Asked on September 04, 2019
Q: I have been investing in ETFs for several years, using a simple 5 ETF portfolio which includes VCN (27%), XUU (27%), XEF (19%), XEC(7%), and ZAB (20%). When I use the portfolio analytics, the suggested ETF portfolio includes about 15 ETFs. Just wondering what if the added complication of the additional funds is worth the effort. I assume that yours has better downside protection as it reduces some of the concentrated sectors and perhaps has better returns? My portfolio has grown in size over the past years so I am ok with the additional work to manage the portfolio, just wanted to better understand why.

Thanks,
Read Answer Asked by Everett on September 03, 2019
Q: I have the following ETF's in the noted ratios and dividend yields %: HDV (3x) 3.32%, ZDV (2x) 5.37%, XTR (1.8x)5.88%, ZWU (1.7x) 6.60%, and CDZ (1x) 4.66%. I'm a dividend investor and good for 3-5 years. If we hit some hard times which of these would be hit the hardest? Any duplication? Should I drop one or more and add to others?
Read Answer Asked by Graham on September 03, 2019
Q: Is .37 the price to get aggressive on this company? On their recent conference call they

expressed the opinion that at the current price which was around .42 there was little downside risk. How do you react? What could they conceive
ably do to turn the sentiment around? If there is continued negative news about the trade wars affect on the worldwide economy how might this affect a stock like Martello? I am thinking about a three year hold.
Read Answer Asked by John on September 03, 2019
Q: Can you give me your general thoughts on Crew? Very cheap; not sure if there is something company-specific. As well, I guess my biggest concern is whether debt they have can be serviced by their cash flow. Debt does not seem that bad, $330M. Is this something I should worry about, because I am happy to wait for better times if debt concerns are relatively low risk. Thanks!
Read Answer Asked by Donald on September 03, 2019
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