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What are your top 5 holdings?

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It is interesting to see the different investing styles that are promoted by FWF'ers, and I'm curious to see how that translates into portfolio holdings. So, what are your top five equity holdings - stocks, funds, ETF's? I think we'll leave off the FI component for now because it get's a little messy with individual bonds and such.

For my portfolio Quicken says:
CPD - 6.01%
REI - 5.11%
PPL- 4.34%
TD Monthly Income Fd - 4.17%
ENB.PR.A - 3.48%

The percentages are of the total portfolio value, not just equity. My portfolio is about 40% FI, 30% Prefs, 30% stocks
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Portfolio basis (38.7% equities):

VT - 10.0%
BNS - 3.4%
RY - 2.7%
BMO - 2.3%
TD - 1.9%

Next 5:

TRP - 1.8%
BCE - 1.7%
EMA - 1.6%
FTS - 1.6%
CM - 1.6%
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Portfolio:

PM 3.4%
TD 2.6%
BNS 2.6%
REI 2.1%
EMA 2.02%
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T 2.64%
BCE 2.08%
RY 1.71%
ENB 1.35%
TRP 1.30%

BNS 1.25%
AIM1513 1.21%
TML700 1.18%
BMO 1.12%
NA 1.11%

As a percent of Equity only

T 7.8%
BCE 6.1%
RY 5.1%
ENB 4.0%
TRP 3.8%

BNS 3.7%
AIM1513 3.6%
TML700 3.5%
BMO 3.3%
NA 3.3%
This information is believed to be from reliable sources but may include rumor and speculation. Accuracy is not guaranteed
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BP - 4.5%
MG - 4.5%
BRK - 3.9%
BMO - 3.8%
DOW - 3.8%
GE - 3.7%
ARX - 3.5%
FFH - 3.4%
DH - 3.3%
BTE - 3.2%
RY - 3.1%
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Well damn ! Here we go again as odd man out. The first figure is % of total folio followed in brackets by % of equity (assuming always that the argument that preferreds are not equity)

BMO - 16.38 (20.61)
IPL.UN 12.89 (16.21)
PPL - 10.13 (12.74)
CPG - 7.43 (9.35)
EMA - 5.39 (6.78)

This aughta curl a few hairs !
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VTI 5.57%
VEA 4.23%

ENB 3.22%
BCE 2.94%
BNS 2.93%
RY 2.84%
BMO 2.27%
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VEA (ca. 20%)
VTI (ca. 10%)
VWO (ca. 10%)
VTV (ca. 7%)
VBR (ca. 5%)
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Level1   Level2   Level3   Level4     Symbol   Actual %    Top 5 Comment
Cash                                               36.6

Core                                               61.0

         Bond                                      22.0

         Equity                                    39.0
                  Canada                           18.2
                           Large                    2.1
                                      XIC           1.8        4
                           LargeValue               4.1          20 companies
                           REIT                     6.3          8 REITs
                           Resource                 4.1          Oil and gas companies
                           SmallValue               1.6
                                      SaxSC         1.6
                  EAFE                              7.8
                           Large                    1.9
                                      VEA           1.6
                           LargeValue               3.7
                                      CIE           2.9        1
                           SmallValue               2.2
                                      PDN           2.2        3
                  Emerging                          4.3
                           Large                    1.5
                                      VWO           1.5
                           LargeValue               2.8
                                      PXH           2.8        2
                  US                                8.7
                           Large                    2.0
                                      VV            1.8        5
                           LargeValue               4.3          20 companies
                           SmallValue               2.3          20 companies

Xplore                                              2.4
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Deja vu all over again? Interesting to compare against this older version from the Ancient Manuscripts, Financial Webring Forum • View topic - Your current Top 5 Holdings.

He's my current list:

VEA 5.7%
VTI 4.8%
BCE 3.9%
POW 3.9%
ACM.A 3.5%

With the exception of a swap from PWF to POW, still hold all the names listed in http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/for ... 63#p286063
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My top 5 holdings are SIN.UN, CPG, REI, BNS, EIF. Roughly $50k in each, but many others not far behind. Also had TD Monthly Income in various accounts - also likely about $50k total in that fund. Don't keep track of percentages.
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Total portfolio 64% equity including preferred share component of 13%.
Top 10 equity holdings as a percentage of total portfolio:

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X-T        3.02%
CGX-T      2.96%
CM-T       2.70%
HCG-T      2.64%
ARX-T      2.55%
BNA.PR.C-T 2.44%
IAG-T      2.37%
FTS-T      2.30%
W.PR.H-T   2.25%
ATD.B-T    2.21%
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Philip Morris International - 18%
Toronto Dominion Bank - 15%
Sandstorm Gold - 14%
Glentel - 13%
Canyon Services Group - 10%
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Peculiar_Investor wrote:
With the exception of a swap from PWF to POW, still hold all the names listed in http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/for ... 63#p286063
Versus the "trader" who only has one common name from the previous iteration.
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I only have 7 ETFs in my personal portfolio, so here's all of them:
  • XSB 22.9%
  • XBB 16.4%
  • VAB 1.3%
  • CBO 8.0%
  • XIC 16.4%
  • XIN 13.7%
  • XSP 21.1%
That's close enough to my target allocation:
  • 50% sum of XSB, XBB, VAB, CBO
  • 15% XIC
  • 15% XIN
  • 20% XSP
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BCE 6.4%
TD 6.11%
BAM.PR.N 6.00%
Emera 5%
TRP 4.5%

No Energy or Material Stocks. I mostly would prefer around 5% allocated per holding but I'll run with the dividend growth winners. The preferred was bought at $15 and swelled ... but why sell an income producer when interest rates will remain low for the foreseeable future.
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Hi,

Interesting thread.

I have some offshore funds that would rival the top five US holdings, but for simplicity...

US$ PM, HCN, ABT, O, CVX

C$ YLO.....Just kidding!



BCE, TRP, TD, RY, PWF
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OK, I'll play. These are percentages of total portfolio, which is 95% common stock, 5% cash.

5.1% BCE
5.0% CTY
4.8% PM
4.8% RY
4.8% AFN
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Here are my top five holdings:

Crescent Point Energy (CPG) 12.7%
H&R REIT (HR.UN) 10.9%
Royal Bank of Canada (RY) 8.3%
Inter Pipeline (IPL.UN) 7.8%
Corus Entertainment (CJR.B) 7.8%

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56% common and 3% preferred now.
I'm bank-heavy right now due to a buying spree when they were beat up in October-November.

Top 5:
RY 3.76%
BMO 3.47%
BCE 3.47%
CM 3.42%
AGNC 3.11%

Next 5:
CPG 2.97%
IPL.UN 2.87%
T.A 2.64%
RUS 2.54%
BNS 2.46%
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Well, if Scomac (who is a heck of a lot smarter than I am) is including Preferreds as equity I'll just add to my statement above that 17.28% of our investments are in Canadian preferreds (banks, insurance and Fortis) but no individual holding would be in our top 5 holdings.
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Here's my top ten:
BCE Inc -- 5.2%

Canadian Paci... -- 5.2%

Bank of Nova... -- 4.9%

IBM. -- 4.1%

Emera Inc -- 3.5%

Microsoft Corp -- 3.4%

Intel Corp -- 3.0%

Toronto Domin... -- 2.9%

3M Co -- 2.7%

Verizon Commu... -- 2.6%
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The equity component of my portfolio has risen significantly from about 22% to about 26%. Of that, 1/5 is in preferred shares. All my stocks, except the remaining ylo preferred, are dividend stocks. These are in my non-registered account. I also hold a few stocks in my RRSP -- currently including a few CN and BCE bought within the last week -- but I don't include these in my count since I don't consider them long-term holdings.

My top five, in order, make up 37% of my equity holdings:

BNS
BCE
EMA
CN
TRP
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IPL (4.96)
EMA (4.39)
PPL (4.33)
ENB (3.99)
NPI (3.69)
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j831robert wrote:Well, if Scomac (who is a heck of a lot smarter than I am) is including Preferreds as equity I'll just add to my statement above that 17.28% of our investments are in Canadian preferreds (banks, insurance and Fortis) but no individual holding would be in our top 5 holdings.
I'm not that smart; I held YLO preferreds! :P

With holdings like that, (and Quebecor World previously) you learn to count preferreds as equity...usually the hard way! :x :x :x
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