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Q: Good Morning. Further to questions and answers re dividend tax credits and the recent article in the Financial Post, how does income from pensions affect the tax credits? Is pension income considered different from income from a job? I could (and should) experiment in a tax program but wondered if you had a quick answer while the topic is current.

Thanks,
Cathy
Read Answer Asked by Catherine on April 21, 2017
Q: Hello Peter,
CRH is down considerably. Based on your previous replies, it appears there were a few large blocks of shares sold (over 20K shares). I am not sure if that caused the stock to take a hit. However, on March 24, 2017, a director sold a large amount of shares ($5M plus). As well, there were other directors that sold in March and yet no impact on share price. I am not clear why such as drastic move today unless something is going on that is not reported yet. Any comments. Thank you
http://www.watchlistnews.com/crh-medical-corp-crh-director-sells-c5525000-00-in-stock/1168444.html
Read Answer Asked by umedali on April 21, 2017
Q: How can I find out what sector a stock is in?
Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Margaret on April 21, 2017
Q: Hello,

I'm looking at initiating a position in either KXS or PHO for an aggressive growth pick within my TFSA. I like the larger size and scope of KXS but am intrigued by the increasing volume of PHO which seems to be missing from the KXS chart. I'm also less familiar with PHO (no 5i Report) - could you quickly highlight their customer base, and which company/industry/product is responsible for their current stock profile?

Thanks,

Cam.
Read Answer Asked by Cameron on April 21, 2017
Q: Please comment of the shareholder rights plan. It seems to be a proposal to give the board more time to extract more value in the event of an unsolicited take-over offer. The stock has been strong recently but I suppose there has been no unsolicited offer. If the board had received an unsolicited "feeler" would they have been obligated to release it to the public or only if there had been a firm offer?

By the way I agree with the other members in supporting all the work you do.

Jim
Read Answer Asked by James on April 21, 2017
Q: You have often stated that 20 equity holdings is about perfect and over that there is no real benefit to “over-diversification” and it actually moves a portfolio closer to just replicating an index. I like to follow your BE portfolio, but when you add on my US holdings, ETFs for international diversification, emerging markets, bonds, preferreds etc my portfolio (7 figures) is left with 58 different individual holdings /ETFs. I would like to cut it down a bit. My question is this: Your BE portfolio started with 20 names and has now grown to 25. Are there any plans to reduce the number of holdings back down to 20 in the near future?
Read Answer Asked by Steven on April 21, 2017
Q: Hi 5i,
A question related to my flow-through partnership units: I purchased in 2016. Some weeks after purchase, the partnership units were listed in my self-directed account, showing an associated value with a footnote indicating that these are not securities that trade on a daily basis. Initially the listed value was around 23 percent below my actual cost of purchase, which I took as mainly an indication of all the fees and management expenses taken out up front. Since then, the account listed unit price has been adjusted every so often (maybe every couple of weeks or monthly). Gradually the unit price has climbed to where the holding is now a couple of percent in the black (relative to my actual cost). My understanding is that I can’t sell the holding until the partnership units roll over into mutual fund units next year sometime. So my question is: in the meantime, what is that partnership unit price showing in my brokerage account based on? Is it actually something like a present market value estimate (just as though it were possible to market the units currently)? If so, are such estimates normally pretty reliable (so that the account listed value from immediately before the roll-over translates reasonably accurately into the value of the resulting mutual fund units – barring some perfectly timed market collapse of course)? Or is it more of an exercise in fiction? Thanks for any help with my understanding on this!
Read Answer Asked by Lance on April 21, 2017
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