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Q: How does one buy mortgage backed securities? And what kind of risks do they have? In what environments do they tend to do well? Are they best held in registered or non registered accounts?
Read Answer Asked by Carla on January 25, 2022
Q: I agree with and often quote you, " often nothing is the right thing to do". That, and learning the importance of managing position size are very possibly the two main reasons my portfolio has grown to the size it is. It wasnt all luck that I trimmed a few stocks that had grown to oversize positions early last Nov. My biggest winners are mostly my biggest decliners in this down draft, the recent trimming eased the pain somewhat. It's not just your stock picks making people $ , thanks for that!
Read Answer Asked by Charles on January 25, 2022
Q: I have enough exposure to the Canadian market but I need additional global equity exposure for the next 10 years.

Would you please recommend an ETF for each of the following categories:
US
International
Emerging markets

Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Don on January 25, 2022
Q: I hold ATVI in my RRIF for long term income and growth. Assuming that the acquisition by MSFT closes, what would be your top three choices for consideration as replacements within the communication services sector?
Read Answer Asked by David on January 25, 2022
Q: I own a broad spectrum of your balanced equity portfolio, including some 'growth' equities. I still hold an approx. 30% cash position. What stocks would you recommend adding on to, in order of your priority, during this correction? Presuming a 3 - 5 year hold!
mille grazie,
c
Read Answer Asked by Claus on January 25, 2022
Q: I read this in the G&M.

"For funeral homes, the decline in income over the past two years owed partly to rising interest in cremation, which costs less than burial.
The losses accelerated as large viewings were cancelled, reducing the need for expensive caskets, said Scott MacCoubrey, a funeral-home owner and president of the Ontario Funeral Service Association."

Can I have your point of view and how this will or not affect PLC?

Thanks


Sheldon
Read Answer Asked by Sheldon on January 25, 2022
Q: On a Day like Today a lot of "Stops" were activated, then it seemed like a scramble to get back in. Even experienced Host's on Cable, you could sense their chagrin.
Personally I don't like stops, thinking that short of a mushroom cloud, my picks (and I) will ride out the storm.
Could you please tell your thought's ?
Read Answer Asked by Cacey on January 25, 2022
Q: Hi, Where is the 2021 IPO Report mentioned in the Jan18 Updates?
Read Answer Asked by Denise on January 24, 2022
Q: Hi there, your comment is very true regarding the following;

All views should be considered and taken into account but this group has been quite bearish for probably a decade now, so eventually they will be right. We have a hard time imagining a 50% market crash. For context, the S&P 500 trades at about 20 times forward earnings, so a 50% drop would lead to the S&P 500 trading at 10X. Of course, earnings could also drop but we are not sure we see a high probability scenario where across the broad spectrum earnings/profits get cut by such a large degree.

However, your last sentence is what intrigued me the most! And looking forward, as the markets always do, maybe the markets foresee three quarters ahead for this year, and revenues/earnings/profits won't be as robust as they were for growth companies now that covid is really in the rearview mirror, with vaccines establishing normalcy (the new normalcy that is) going forward once again!

Thoughts looking forward six to nine months ahead for growth companies?

PS: Growth Companies will no longer get an easy pass any longer (as they have during these crazy Covid times), they are going to have to truly prove themselves as being relevant going forward, earning a buck or two or three..., in a cut throat world competing against one another! Everyone is done with Covid... and its time to move on with normalcy once again, as best as we all can, including the markets! :))
Read Answer Asked by Hussein on January 24, 2022
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