Investment Q&A

Q: I am retired and try to have a portfolio that pays me a dividend, is relatively safe and shows a little growth. My portfolio is primarily made up of banks, pipelines, telecoms and utilities. I own these listed utilities but am wondering if I have too much overlap. If you were to recommend selling one of them, which one would it be ?

Ken

Q: What Canadian stocks do you recommend picking up with the new nafta agreement?

Q: Regarding Fraser's question about forward P/E.. Morningstar does provide forward P/E for free.

Q: I want to buy some natural gas companies that will benefit from the construction of the Kitimat NGL plant, do you have any suggestions?

Q: Hi team,

They both have bounced due to LNG (still) speculative developments. Would you wait a few months or would you buy now? BDI used to be your favourite. Which one would you choose now? Why?

Have a wonderful weekend!

Q: I am looking to buy 3 or 4 American large caps, dividend paying, with at least moderate growth. I already own MCFT, DWDP, UTX, GLW, INTC. Any suggestions?? Thanks Jim

Q: I'm in the process of trimming my portfolio of over 40 companies and building cash. Both Major Drilling Grp and Cathedral Energy Services are candidates for removal. How do you feel about these companies, should they be sold? Would you put the money in cash or what would you buy in their place, in the same sectors?

Many Thanks

Q: Which 5 companies stand to benefit the most assuming Shell's Canada LNG Project goes ahead? Thank you.

Q: I have 7% of my portfolio in ENB. Should I be concerned about dividends and further erosion in capital? For 2 to 5 years, should I hold it or sell it partially or in full? In case of selling, what should I replace with - a good dividend player with a moderate capital appreciation at medium risk? Thank you.

Q: The recent Shell contract, and the potential for a LNG go-ahead have me wondering about the potential for some gains here. They seem to be building a significant business and drilling should be stable/growing if LNG is a go. Your thoughts would be appreciated....

Q: sorry my previous question wasn't specific enough but do you have any thoughts on the recently passed resolution on the change in share structure.

Q: What is your long term view

Q: There was a discussion on a financial network with a portfolio manager regarding future rate increases. The expectation is that rates will likely be increased 3 to 4 times over the next 15 months or so. This in turn would likely result in an inverted yield curve. In such an environment, financial stocks, especially insurance companies, have historically done very poorly. So not hold them.!
My questions are
What is your expectation for future interest rate increases this year and next?
Do you agree with how 3-4 rate increases would likely affect the yield curve?
From you experience, historically, has this type of scenario been quite negative for financial stocks; that is banks and insurance companies?
And if this is very negative for financial stocks, should one continue to hold such shares beyond the end of this year?
Your analysis please. Thanks.

Q: On Sept. 24 I asked where I could find forward PE for the TSX, and you kindly supplied a link (thank you) but I don't see forward PE there, trailing yes but not forward. Nor anywhere else I've tried. Any ideas?

Q: A U.S. based financial advisor who specializes in ETF’s and is bearish on the market states in his weekly newsletter that a retired individual should hold an equivalent percentage of bonds as their age in their portfolio:

What would be your thoughts on this degree of allocation and what would you suggest?

Would your allocation change if the individual has already accumulated sufficient capital to take them to the end and still leave a nice inheritance?

If you do think that a retiree should have a percentage of bonds in their portfolio can you provide some ETF’s?

Thank you for considering my questions.

Q: HI 5i,

Concerning American banking system, rumors are that under the Trump governance, some banks have gone back to the same financial strategies as before the financial crisis of 2008. I do have those 3 American bank in my retirement portfolio. Should I get a ride of those and, if the answer is yes, any suggestion for replacement.

Thanks you

Q: both BYL and PBL are up, should I sell or hold, thanks

Cindy

Q: Hello, I'm looking at adding PBL to my portfolio and noticed the one day price jump. Is this mostly due to the acquisition of Shafer Systems? Is it still a good time to buy (long term hold?), or should I wait for a pull back due to the current valuation.

Q: Premium Brands is down over .10%, is it time to Sell now?

Q: I recall reading in Q&A earlier in the year that in determining percentage of sector allocation in our portfolio we use the stocks only total sum and not include the sum of our ETF's. Did I understand that correctly? If so, then to understand our sector allocation of our ETFs do we take the average of the ETFs' specific given sector allocation(i.e. for Financials in VFV,SPY and VIG approx. 14.30%) ? So if we have Financials sector allocations of 15% in Stocks and 14.30% in ETF do we view it as approx. 15% Financials in our total portfolio or is is understood to be the sum of the two(29%)? In addition to our personal investment accounts we have an investment account within our small family business.Should I be adding the sum of this investment account to our personal accounts for tracking sector allocation? Thank you for your assistance with clarifying sector allocation .