Investment Q&A

Q: Need to add financial stock within my portfolio in the next week or two. For a TFSA, not needed for at least 5 years. Based on exchanges in this platform, I am considering HOOD and BN. I am very much a crypto skeptics. Assuming that I put a value near 0 to HOOD's business, would this still be a buy? Would you recommend another stock instead of these two? Which ones?

Q: The Analytics tells me that I need to reduce the Financial sector by 8%. Currently own BNS (3.5%), BN (1%), X (2.%), TD (4%), and VBAL (17%). Thinking about selling BNS and X or trimming the VBAL. I would appreciate your comments on which approach is better. Thank you

Q: Please rank this group for growth and risk over the next 2-3 years. Thanks for your great advice. Steve

Q: What is your opinion of the potential for a turnaround for various of these Private Credit firms? I have already put a small percentage of my portfolio in ARCC but:
a) is this firm the solid alternative it seems or
b) would I be better off with a position in BXSL,
c) the others, or
d) None at all?
Thanks
Best regards,

David

Q: Understand size and sector differences. Adding to a diversified portfolio, + 3 % in dollars of current. What rank in order to purchase for 3-5 year hold? (I see CLS moving favourably in pre-market).

Q: what is your opinion on this company and how do you see it preforming going forward? Would this be a buy and hold as an Ai infrastructure play or s there others you would recomend? I own Goog, NVDA and BN for some exposure already

Q: Doing a rebalance in my portfolio. What % or weight would you consider as optimal with BN. Looking at it as an anchor that I will leave alone for 10yrs.

Q: My TFSA portfolio has done exceptionally well in large part due to the invaluable information and coaching provided by Peter and the rest of the 5i team since 2013. Thank you very much for helping to build our intergenerational legacy.

I plan to use a fraction of the assets in my TFSA to set up a high-growth, moderate high-risk concentrated 10 stock six-digit sub-portfolio with a 10 year time-frame and hoping for a 5-10 fold target. The idea is to select the best high conviction durable names, maximize capital gains compounding, and minimize dividend drag such as US withholding tax in the TFSA. With the help of my chatbot assistant, it looks like a base case of 17-25% annualized is required to reach the 5-10x target, even with periods of significant drawdowns and bull cases. Obviously stock selection and staying invested for the long term are key.

My initial tentative selection of 10 stocks NVDA, ASML, MSFT, AVGO, NBIS, GOOG, TSLA, CCO, NVO, and SHOP with weightings ranging from 6% to 16%

Could you please critique my strategy and the stocks selected. Suggest improvements including alternative names to consider as replacements that you feel might work better.

If you were creating such a portfolio for yourself which 10 names would you select.

Q: Hi. My very helpful neighbour has had a baby, and I want to give a gift to get him started on stocks. Do you have a recommendation for something that would still be a safe and good investment 20 years from now? I'm looking to spend between $300-$500 CAD. US or Canadian stocks would be fine. Thanks, Marg.

Q: If YOU were starting a portfolio right now in this market, which 10 stocks (more or less in order) would you buy with pure growth on your mind? Ignore diversification for the purpose of this question. 3 - 5 year hold. Canadian or US Stocks.

A brief explanation for each.

Thanks so much!

Q: I wish to reduce my number of holdings in my portfolio. Feeling what I have has some overlapping. Which ones of my list would you recommend to keep? I do plan to hold the rest for growth and stability for more than 5 years.
BN, BAM,BIP.UN, BIP-C, BEP.UN, BEP-C
Many thanks,

Q: You mentioned BN is a hold. Does that mean you would not buy it today?

Q: Recently sold GSY and have trimmed winners back in my TFSA.
I'm looking for 4-5 Cdn growth/ momentum names. Cash on Hand $47.5k.
Thank you
David

Q: Hello,

Could you provide your top 3 or 4 choices from your income and balanced portfolio you would buy today? If there are any gems outside of these portfolios that are worth a hard look please include them.
Thank you

Q: I am looking to deploy cash sitting in my TFSA. I have "full" positions in NVDA, SHOP and GOOG. "Partial" positions in BN, CLS, BANK, NBIS, RKLB and PNG. And finally, "starter" positions in HOOD, GLXY and App.

1) Would you be comfortable with the overall balance in the account?
2) Would you deploy the funds into 2 or 3 of the existing holdings and if so, which ones?
3) Would you start a new position(s) to increase diversity and if so where would you go?
4) Would you eliminate any of the current position dues to overlap or other reasons?

Thanks,
Terry

Q: I asked question last Sunday past regarding top 6 sectors (in order of preference complete with top 2 picks in each sector along with reasons behind the picks again everything in order of preference please. No sure what happened but no answer was given...thanks

Q: Good Morning, I’m looking to round out my TFSA. Excluding Celestica, Shop, BN and Kraken what Canadian company would you recommend for a 3 year hold.
Thank you

Q: Can you give me 3 stocks (Canadian or US) that have been beaten up since the start of the year that you have the highest conviction on for a turnaround for the rest of the year?

Q: Which of the following would be good to build on for long term investments for a 30 year old? This is for a TFSA. Looking for medium to high risk.

Q: Hello,
I wish to reduce my number of holdings in my financial sector.  Feeling what I have has some overlapping.  Which 2 or more of my lists would you recommend to trim?  I do plan to hold the rest for growth and stability for more than 5 years.
Many thanks,
Roger