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Q: I am moving many of my fixed income investments from bond funds to preferred shares with a minimum guaranteed rate (yes I know the dividends are not guaranteed). I am trying to decide between TRP.PR.J and TRP.PR.K. Currently J yields 5.22% while K yields 4.73%. It appears J is the better choice. Do you agree? When would K be preferred if at all?
Read Answer Asked by Robert on April 10, 2018
Q: Peter and team

Thanks to member Walter, I have looked at a website that lists the U.S. preferred shares that trade on an American exchange. I realize that while U.S. stocks are not your focus are there any preferred shares that trade on an American exchange that you would recommend for an income investor? Are these p/s any more complicated than ones issued by Canadian companies ? I believe there are some companies on the TSX that have issued preferred shares that pay in U.S. $ and still are eligible for the Dividend Tax Credit. Are you familiar with any of these names?

Thanks

Paul
Read Answer Asked by paul on April 09, 2018
Q: With your answer to a Q on ENB as time being on the buyers side I put a low ball bid in for some shares. Could you give me a list of 'safe' stocks (i.e. like ENB and not KWH.UN for example) with great yields that one could put stink bids on? I will assume in your answer that putting ENB over ENF(e.g.) indicates preference of the safer investment vehicle.

TIA
Read Answer Asked by Gerald on April 09, 2018
Q: Hi team !
I have been holding pjp-n for almost 3 years and it just keep going down.
I am about 24% in the red. I hold in my TFSA and it is 14% of that account.
Any hope for this ETF to recover soon ? Or would you advise to take my lost and invest in something else with a good growth potential ? I already hold SIS-T
Thanks for your help
Jacques
Read Answer Asked by Jacques on April 09, 2018
Q: Can you tell how much cash the company will hold after the loans are restructured based on the latest F/S and the latest press release. I have looked at both but don’t understand all the terms they use.

The second part of my question relates to cash flow . It seems to me if they don’t buy anything else they could easily repay the term loans before 2025 . It looks to me that they throw off approx $50m per month prior to interest pmts.
Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Robert on April 09, 2018
Q: I'm looking at two US Energy companies, while 5i is focused on Canadian Securities, may I ask if you'd have a look at these two and give me some thoughts for my consideration.

Thanks in advance

Jeff
Read Answer Asked by jeff on April 09, 2018
Q: We have a lot of STB, our favorite dividend payer, and are loosing it to the buy out. When is the last xdiv date and the last div payment date? We have held DR for a long time as well and thinking of adding to it with the proceeds. Your thoughts? Any other suggestions? Thanks for your excellent advice. It is much appreciated.
Dick
Read Answer Asked by Richard on April 09, 2018
Q: Can I get your thoughts on the finding that it is 13 times more expensive to mine certain metals, copper and gold in this study, from ore than through 'urban mining'. Are there public companies currently doing this in North America? Any that have plans to or are looking into it? Thanks.

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2018/april/pulling-valuable-metals-from-e-waste-makes-financial-sense.html
Read Answer Asked by Marco on April 09, 2018
Q: Hello 5i team,
Do you give any credence to Z scores? My take is that the values may depend on the sector. For instance in the utilities; AGN, BIP, BEP, EMA all have scores below 1 ranging from .45 to .82 and thus doomed to failure! KWH, SPB ,and VNR ave from 2.02 to 3.53. Thus the sector is all over the place. In what context would these scores be used, if at all?
Thank you
Stanley
Read Answer Asked by STANLEY on April 09, 2018
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