Investment Q&A

Q: Do you consider HYLD as a reasonably safe place to store cash in my normally growth orientated TFSA while I decide on a growth stock I want to invest in long term? (The high yield is very tempting).
Thank you.
David

Q: I have small holdings in HYLD (1.54), FMAX (2.24) and HUBL (1.51) for 5.29% in my overall US Financial portfolio. I would like to consolidate into only one ETF. I am leaning toward HYLD. Would you have any thoughts on this?. Your comments please. At my age, I am only investing for Dividends, Distributions and Interest. Thank You.

Q: For my retirement, I have income coming from several streams. Rental income from property, employment income from an eight-week/year position (that I enjoy immensely), and a small RRSP account that I plan to use to earn 8% per year average and take principal and interest for monthly payments, using it up completely over 9 years, pushing off OAS and CPP until I’m 70 years old, when these benefits have maxed in value and can replace the depleted RRSP funds. Recently, I have been researching high income, 25% leveraged ETFs (I asked a question about them a few days ago, but this question takes the concept a step further), and I had the thought that it might be possible to buy a few ETFs for the RRSP, replacing all equities, and earn an average yield of 13%, which would cover the monthly payments while not depleting capital. I realized the capital may be reduced at the end of the 9 years, but likely not gone as in the original scenario, so any leftover funds would be a bonus. This would also free up time from managing my portfolio the way I do now, giving me more time to enjoy my retirement. Do you see any big holes in my theory? I wondered, for example how variable the dividends can be year over year. If this seems like a solid plan, could you suggest a portfolio of ETF’s (would 5-6 suffice?) that would serve this concept? (Note-I do have other investments, but they are not part of my monthly income streams, more a rainy-day fund.) Thanks!

Q: Given the current volatile market, option selling etfs seems to offer some tax efficient income while waiting for things to cool down somewhat. What is your opinion on investing in these vehicles? What is the risk / reward equation in an uncertain market. Is there one that you would prefer if you were considering for your income portfolio. Thanks

Q: I'm impressed by the performance of the Hamilton Etfs, managing a crazy high 'dividend' and not really losing price. How will the Hamilton covered call ETFs (I've listed only a couple examples) do in a down market -- will they outperform or underperform the market ? I know they are new products; are these ETFs at risk of 'bait and switch' in terms of some unseen fees or reduced distributions?

Q: I am an 80 year old income investor with some growth. I have $20,000 to employ. The above is a list of my losers out of 50 winners in a portfolio of mostly the Income Portfolio plus 15 yield maximizer ETF's like UMAX. Should I:
1. wait for your monthly advice before acting
2. distribute evenly accross the losers
3. add to the winners
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Please take as many credits as needed.
Thank you

Q: Hi there. With the recent uncertainty in the markets, what is your opinion on HYLD.CA?
Does it make sense to be more diversified when deploying new money in this current environment and have a larger amount of investable capital in ETF type funds that pay higher yields- as opposed to individual names? Do you see the Canadian dollar gaining some strength as we head further into 2025?

Thank-you as always!

Q: All things being equal, which ETF would you prefer for US exposure today with all that's going on, for a 3-5 year hold? A follow up to my previous question, would 50/50 in either maybe a better way to go?

Thanks

Q: So I am looking at a high yield Canadian issued ETF with distributions in USD. Growth is secondary to yield as it it is to partially offset the increasing costs of wintering in Florida. Is the price of HYLD.U.CA ( $14.75 ) in CAD or USD ; likewise what currency is the distribution ? I understand this ETF has 1.25 leverage.

Would this ETF met my goals of high income from stocks representing the broad US market?
Are there other products that meet my goals ?

Thanks. Derek.

Q: Does the Hamilton group of US etf.s like HYLD HBND. FMAX. HBIL have withholding tax if held in a TFSA or non regestered account? Thank you JIM

Q: Of these two etfs HYLD and HHIS how safe is the capital and which one would you prefer. Also would they be better for a RRSP, TFSA or NON REGISTERED account

Q: I own ZWA.TO and it has drastically underperformed anything close to the benchmark dow. IYY, a Dow proxy listed in USD, is up 34% in past year while ZWA is up less than 10% on a price basis. Being a covered call ETF, yielding less than 6%, does not explain this huge %-point performance difference. Nor the fact that it is CAD-hedged. How can it be so poorly managed? What is going on with these BMO etfs? Can you recommend a broad CAD denominated global equity covered call ETF so I can replace ZWA?

Q: Best of the Season to all at 5i,

Please advise your most well thought of covered call ETFs. Leveraged and unleveraged.

Thanks very much.

Q: What are your thoughts or comments on the Hamilton HDIV and HYLD?

- HDIV has a 10% yield and the other is an 11% yield...

- Are these worth considering ?

Am I missing something?

Any comments or suggestions...?
Thanks,
M

Q: Does this ETF pay its distributions in CDN or US dollars ? I am looking for Canadian high yield ETF’S that pay in USD. Do the applicable ETF’S advertise their yield factoring in FX ?
Thanks
Derek

Q: I currently hold hyld.
Do you prefer hdiv or hdif to diversify my portfolio.
How about some smax to round things out.

Thank you

Q: Good morning team, I’m contributing to a non registered account for the first time as I’m maxed out in my tfsa and rrsp. My goal is to invest in dividend paying etfs and select dividend stocks while trying to take advantage of the dividend tax credit. I’m looking for yields north of 4%. XDIV looks good to me so far. How would HDIV and HYLD be taxed? Thoughts and suggestions? Thanks

Q: I recently upgraded my subscription and received the Canadian Money Saver magazine subscription, which I'm really enjoying. In the most recent issue there is a page of top US dividends within a certain criteria. I was surprised at the number of funds paying 10% plus divs. I realize that this isn't always a safe investment, but in light of rates falling, I wonder if you have a few suggestions for high dividend paying etf's (US and or Cdn) or REITs that would have capital preservation (generally maintain share price, or increase) as the rates come down, but realize income through the div.

Q: I'd like to assess the following group of ETF's I am considering purchasing from a conservative and safety point of view ...... HYPT has been used as the fixed income part of the portfolio . Please advise if this is appropriate and if not a suitable replacement ? The 5i income portfolio has Canadian preferred, convertible bond, and high yield US bonds for around a 15% weighting as the fixed income section ...... Please give a rating of between one and ten with one being the most " conservative and safe " for the following group of ETF's . I will assign the 5i income portfolio a four just so I can see how my choices rank against it using the criteria I suggested ...... Also everything I have chosen is a Hamilton product. Does 5i consider that problematic ? Thanks for your terrific service .....

FMAX 10%
HMAX 10%
QMAX 20%
HYPT 15%
SMAX 20%
LMAX 10%
HYLD 10%
HDIV 5%

Q: Thanks for all you do do us little guys and gals. I would be interested if you know of a good ETF for income with a 5% + dividend with significant US exposure BUT bought in CAD$? If not any US company stocks with a 5%+ dividend that I can buy on the TSX? Thanks again. Dan