Investment Q&A

Q: Hi 5i,
I know you're not huge fans of Veresen as a stock pick. For fixed income, would you have any concerns with buying a 3.43% bond maturing Nov. 10/21 with the intention to hold it to maturity? I see it is rated BBB. Many thanks. Michael

Q: Hi team, I am under water on Gilead and am thinking that it is time to bail. Can you please suggest an alternative, I hold this in an RRSP to protect the USD dividend, so would prefer a US dividend alternative if possible, it doesn't need to be health care.
Thanks

Q: I noticed that the estimated earnings for this quarter for GUD are slightly lower than the same quarter for last year. Are earnings for GUD usually lumpy?

Q: Hello I5, Like to have your assessment of TS.b, is the div safe, do you see any near term growth. With regards to FGD, would you explain what "re-assume debenture" means, your evaluation of this company' growth and earnings.
Many thanks, J.A.P. Burlington, Ont.

Q: Hello,
I received the BKD Notice of AGM & Special Meeting today. Hard to clearly discern what the transaction is. Would appreciate it i you can advise. Also: I note they want to reverse split the shares 10 for 1. In my experience this alway seems to have a net negative impact on share value, although I know it should not.

BTW, on Mar 13th Rick mentioned a very good March ETF update by you...and sorry but I can't find it.
Thanks for your assistance!
Brian

Q: Hi 5i team :
Kroll Ball rating agency commented about TAH (USa branch of Tricon) the below note. As shareholders, should we worry now about this note ? or it is an issue to deal with in 2019 . Thanks !!

"It is worth noting that one TAH securitization and the Silver Bay deal are each collateralized by a floating-rate loan with a fully extended term of five years and the other TAH securitization is collateralized by a fixed-rate loan with a five-year term, all of which will come due from September 2019 to November 2021. This concentrated debt maturity profile may result in increased financial stress for the company."

Q: Hi. Since joining your service I have slowly sold my mutual funds and built up the portfolio listed. I have an equal percentage of these listed except M at 16% AVO at 1.6% and SGY at .6 %. I have a mutual fund left at 6% that I would like to sell. For a balanced portfolio today what would you recommend I purchase? 3 - 5 year timeframe. Please deduct appropriate credits for the long question. Thanks.

Q: What is your position on Couche-Tard after the conference call? Does it change the short-term and long-term outlook? Thanks

Q: Good morning 5i team,
How do you make the distinction between heat chasing (i.e. buying a stock that has gone up significantly due to popular demand) and momentum investing which you seem to like a lot and which, on the surface at least, consists in buying a stock that has been rising in price for some time? Going by all that I have read on investing, heat chasing is very risky and to be avoided while momentum investing is an approach you often recommend. When does momentum investing become heat chasing?
Robert

Q: 5I Team,

Can I please get your comments on Vendetta Mining Corp. (VTT)

Congrats to the team member with new addition. That's the best type of investment.

Cheers,
Scott

Q: Would this be a good etf (ptb)to hold for bond exposure it has been showing weakness as of late and if not could you suggest another alterative.

Q: My Father has finally caught on that paying the RBC +2% for their mutual funds is eroding his returns and asked for some help. He doesn't have the knowledge or temperament to jump into stocks so I am suggesting he move some investments to ETFs. He is 70, has a teachers pension and 250k of RSP "fun money" to play with. Since I view his pension as his fixed income portion of his portfolio I dont see any reason to get him into any fixed income ETFs or match your model ETF portfolio. I plan to suggest he move about 25k each into xwd, cdz and vgg for a start to get his feet wet. Then once he is comfortable move the rest into those same 3 funds ( assuming they are still on your suggested list at that time).

Any recommended adjustments to this approach in terms of ETFs or my equal weighting.

Q: Please don't answer this with the standard reply about split corporations. I know 5i is not crazy about split corporations. No one ever mentions the preferred share side of the split. Everyone talks about the ultra-high yielding Class A shares that pay over 10%. That's not what I'm asking about.

The preferred shares yield about 5%. DFN.PR.A was priced at about 10.50 in 2004 and today its price is 10.34. There was a 30% dip in 2008. Otherwise the graph is amazingly level, showing only a fraction of the losses "normal" preferred shares showed in 2015-16. Also, distributions have never been suspended. A graph of dfn.pr.a compared to the preferred share etfs CPD and HPR may be surprising. The question is, How dangerous are preferred shares of a split corporation? Certainly they have to be safer than the Class A, high yielding shares. Seems like a good place to park some cash, which is what I've been doing. Thank you for your thoughts.

Q: Hi, a friend mentioned these etfs may be a great place to start a small position ~5%. I would like your opinion on DBA and JJG, to play agriculture in US dollars. Thanks.

Q: Can you please list in order your 5 favorite dividend-growth stocks that you like enough to buy now. Thank you.

Q: buying opportunities for these? What is your short and long term outlook on these stocks? Thanks so much!!

Q: As you can see small retail investors are forced to compete in a market were self serving hedge funds are given a soap box on national tv BNN to hawk there position and fears into the small retail investor .The vast viewership of BNN are small retail investors who are influenced buy guests like last nite.
It is a very unlevel playing field.
As a senior investor it is clear to me that it time to get to hell out and the leave market to hedge fund hawkers
Stan

Q: I noticed that it has been nearly 4 years since you last commented on this company so I would appreciate it if you could provide an update.

Keep up the great work.

Q: any further comments on atd.b after cc would you add to a half position or just wait ?

Thx

Q: Hello Peter et al.

Ithaca has come out with the information circular for shareholders to tender their shares for $1.95. The circular puts the company potential down in its ability to grow. If it is so bad why are they trying to buy it lol!!!!! They must be taking lessons from Donald Trump's White House with 'False News'. I was disgusted with what I read. I believe the company has higher value potential and people invest to take risk to get reward and they say they want to protect us from the risk. It is more like they want to rob us of the reward!!!!!! I thought it was going to be a vote but from what I understand from the circular is you vote yes by tendering your shares for $1.95 and vote no by doing nothing. Is my interpretation correct?

What is your opinion of the takeover based on the circular and what is your opinion of the circular?

Thanks,

Brendan