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Investment Q&A

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Q: How does one approach bond investments given the low interest rates. I see XBB had a significant drop today. Why? How would you compare XBB to PMIF?
I am retired senior 78 with a pension.
Thank you
Read Answer Asked by Donald on February 17, 2021
Q: I am uncertain regarding calculating acb when,say, a husband and wife own the same stock in different taxable accounts. Is it required to calculate acb from both husband and wife's account, or from each account individually? Sorry to trouble you with such an elementary question. But, I did a Google search and didn't find anything.
Read Answer Asked by joseph on February 17, 2021
Q: My top holdings are:
GOOG 6.61%
AAPL 5.21%
AMZN 5.12%
NVDA 4.61%
V 4.23%
NPI 3.75%
WSP 3.58%
PBH 3.37%
XBB 3.21%
COST 3.1%
OHI 3.48 %
ENB 2.8%
JPM 2.72%

They make up 50% of my portfolio. I have 12% in cash. Would you add or reduce any of these positions? Long investment horizon(17 years). I’m over weight consumer cyclicals and FS (3% BMO and 3% BNS). Light industrials @7%.
Read Answer Asked by Don on February 17, 2021
Q: Good Morning 5I Team, Thanks for the all your great advise.
As per the portfolio analysis I need to increase my International allocation which is currently at 10%. The Portfolio analysis classifies my following stocks/ETFs as International Brlxf, EWA, HFPC.U:CA, ATCO, BBU.UN, BPY.UN, BEP.UN, MDT.
Can you please suggest some growth stocks or ETFs to add to above holdings to increase my International allocation as well as if any of the above holdings doesn't have potential and can be reallocated? I am looking at long term over 5 to 10 years and have limits in my TFSA & RRSP account.
Please deduct Credits as deemed appropriate.
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Nimish on February 17, 2021
Q: I was bullish on this for some time because the Ontario Gov't paid them to develop expanded, locally produced lab products, including but not limited to COVID and other testing reagents and VTM.
My fear was that a cheap, rapid test would make their COVID line irrelevant, but variants may be just the thing to keep their more technical tests relevant long-term.
How would you now view their risk/return as I want to add to my small 1% position?
Read Answer Asked by Darren on February 17, 2021
Q: I thought CVS was a reasonably good value at or below its recent price in the mid-70 dollars. It reported results today February 16, and tumbled ~ 5%. Before release of those latest results, I had calculated ROE just under 15% and PEG at ~2.4. (1) Do you have updates to key metrics, in addition to the above-noted ones (incorporating the latest results). (2) CVS’ acquisition of Aetna did cause indigestion, but I thought things were much better now. Not so? (3) I had also thought CVS’ participation in the administration of vaccines would very likely enhance impulse sales also. I am wrong on that too? ( So far, I am scoring zero out of 10, yes?)

Am I wrong about CVS? If it is not worth adding to my position, should I sell or leave my half position in peace for now and just monitor?
Read Answer Asked by Adam on February 17, 2021
Q: I'd really like to see 5iReseach provide members with a table listing ALL company reports with three columns, (company name; most recent rating; and date of report issuance. The current presentation of reports is waste of time to search through page by page, only to find a company of potential interest and find the report out-of-date. We should be able to see at all reports at a glance, perhaps by alphabetical order or rating.
Looking forward to your reply,
Read Answer Asked by EDWARD on February 17, 2021
Q: Good evening!
I just read your update, and was somewhat surprised reading the asterisked comment regarding holdings in ZRE. My understanding was that you did not invest in Canadian positions. I also assumed that any staff, directors, and such were held to the same obligation. Has this philosophy changed? Is this a singular exception, and if so will this holding be sold by the one holding the position?
Feel free to publish your response as it is my belief that other members would be interested in your answer, but may not have been inclined to ask the obvious question.
Thanks! Paul K
Read Answer Asked by Paul on February 17, 2021
Q: I have all three currently in a taxable account and about to transfer something into a TFSA. Would you have any preference over these three great companies at the moment for that?
thanks
Read Answer Asked by joseph on February 17, 2021