Investment Q&A

Q: Hi Team,

DH and BIP.UN are rising rapidly lately including today. Is there any particular reason for this action? On another note, CTC.A is dropping incessantly since December. Hold? Ironically DH was getting to 9% of equity and I was going to trim back to 5%. Probably still should? Thank you for great advice.

Ted

Q: do you have a current view on westaim?-Kim

Q: Would you kindly comment on Stantec's latest merger?

THANK YOU!
Bryan

Q: Any idea why TX has been taking such a beating lately? I know that they have some O&G industry exposure, but TX shares have been dropping signficantly just over the last few days.
Thanks!

Q: how closely tied to the oil & gas sector is Aston Hill Financial Inc.

Q: what are your thoughts on the intertain deal. dave

Q: CXI(TSX) is deemed a foreign investment, as it is domiciled in the US. I guess I should have noticed that before I bought it. Would that affect which account one should buy it in( registered or not), with respect to US withholding tax etc.? Also useful to note this for the 100K foreign reporting requirements.

Q: Hello,
I have been slowly adding names from the model portfolio and now have money to add three more names. I currently own DSG ESL G SJ SLF WCP T from the model and I also own KBL PPL DHX SGY AVO BAC. What do you think I should add. I'm a medium risk, long term investor. Thanks for the help. I'm doing a heck of a lot better since becoming a member!

Q: A point of clarification regarding rate reset pref shares. When the rate is reset - I assume that the new dividend is based off of the "par" value of the share - $25 - and not the current market price at that time. For example - ENB.PR.B - on the reset date the new div will be derived based on the 5 year gov bond rate plus the spread of 2.40% applied to $25 and not the current market price at that time which is currently lower than $25. Thanks

Q: Still a decent situation ?

Q: Would you buy these stocks for a 5 year hold in a TFSA? Or is it still too risky? Wait for oil to stabilize?
Thank you

Q: For James, I too received the TD dividend (and a CXR one) in my WebBroker account showing "Trade date" Feb. 2 & "Settlement date" Jan.31. Because the payment date of Jan. 31 was a non banking day, a Saturday, the next banking day, Monday is the actual credit day to appear in the account. I know banks love to nickel and dime us but had James written a cheque for the 31st on the strength of the dividend being deposited and the bank bounced it because it only showed in the account on the 2nd I believe he would have a legitimate beef. Anyway, any profit made by banks in this fashion will eventually be returned to the shareholders, us, via dividends.

Q: From your model portfolio what 4-5 stocks would you suggest to be adding at this point in time? Excluding ESL, HCG, T, WCP and Goldcorp.

Q: Hi 5i: Could you please comment on the ATA earnings? I cannot make sense of the summary given on my RBC Direct system - there seems to be some confusion relating to earnings per share. And the market did not like what it saw. I'd appreciate your opinion.

Q: BMO has a Floating Rate High Yield ETF (ZFH) that somehow combines T-Bills with Credit Default Swaps (whatever they are) to create a product that is midway between T-Bills and High Yield Corporate Bond ETF's in yield, risk, and volatility, which seems like a worthwhile result. The description of what they are doing might as well have been written in Sanskrit for all that I got out of it. ZFH has attracted $400M worth of investment in its year or so of existence. Would it be a reasonable addition to the bond portion of a balanced portfolio?

Q: Peter (et al)
Just caught you on BNN. Great info as always.
At the end of the show you mentioned the "growth" portfolio coming this March. Your brief comments about it (riskier, mainly small cap etc.)got me thinking. Without wanting to burden your resources, but because you may be including stocks not generally well known, would it be at all possible to provide a very brief summary of each of the stocks in the portfolio with your reasons for including it - nothing like a full report, just essentially, what you like about the stock. And, also, perhaps a rating of each stocks "risk quotient" compared to the whole portfolio (perhaps in "risk stars" or some other such goofy summarization) - just to give us an idea. What would be totally cool is if one could click on the name and pull up a brief summary and risk assessment.
Again, you already provide so much, I feel bad in making these suggestions, but, in the long run, perhaps doing something along the above lines may actually reduce the number of questions you would field about each of the stocks.
Thanks for you consideration.

Q: For balancing my portfolio, using the ten sectors as you listed on Jan. 16th., where do I put Real Estate?
Leonard.

Q: Hi Peter. There is a crushing amount of debt in the world which I feel may be beyond the ability of governments, companies and individuals to ever repay, as credit room appears nearly exhausted. If this is correct, the risk of creditor defaults is significant and may lead to bad deflation. Could you give me your opinion on the risk and significance of deflation and how can you protect your assets in that situation, other than holding cash?
Thanks again for your invaluable advice.

Q: Hi, I have been thinking of asset allocation over my registered and non registered portfolios as a whole. Presently I hold a mix of about 80 per cent stocks and 20 percent fixed income. When one advises allocation of an individual stock not to exceed say 10 per cent, or a sector such as financials not to exceed 30 per cent of a portfolio, is this 10 or 30 per cent of the stock holdings only or is it 10 or 30 per cent of the entire portfolio including fixed income and cash?

Q: Hi peter , can you give your view on american hotel reit, with a current 8.2% yield and the lower cad benefit, it seem like a good investment.