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| Comment | 20.470 | John DeGoey | Prefers to others because as a shorter duration and is cheaper. | 2011-12-20 | |
| Comment | 20.450 | Joey Mack | 1-5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. Likes the idea of laddering. Performs very well over time. Distribution yield is 4% and a underlying yield is in the area of 2%. The 2% differential based on the bonds they are buying are premiums. That's where the market is. That premium will disappear over time so the asset value of the fund will drop over time. Still a great product but you will not stay there forever. | 2011-11-04 | |
| TOP PICK | 20.360 | David Cockfield | 1-5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. Has clients concerned about the stock market and want a bond holding. Not very volatile. Has a monthly payout. Yields 4.6%. Top 10 holdings would include Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank Trust, Toronto Airport, all very solid AAA names. | 2011-10-21 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.370 | Paul Gardner, CFA | Yield curve is so flat between 2 and 20 years. You don’t get that much yield by going up the ladder. It is hard to get excited about the bond market. If you don’t expect much, credit markets give you more bang for your dollar. | 2011-10-11 | |
| Comment | 20.270 | Hank Cunningham | 1-5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. The 4.3% advertised by this fund is a trailing return, so he cautions that if yields start increasing, the return will fall. Be very careful and look carefully at what is in this ladder. | 2011-05-19 | |
| BUY | 20.400 | Joey Mack | A good long-term hold. Only hold short-term securities. Is dropping because as high yield bonds mature, the asset value of the fund drops. | 2011-03-21 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.290 | John DeGoey | 1-5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. With this and similar ones all you are doing is minimizing losses and not making gains. In a rising rate environment you are still going to get hurt. | 2011-02-10 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.390 | Mark Carpani | If rates gradually rise in the short term, then this fund will suffer. He thinks rates will rise modestly over this year. The coupon may not be enough to offset the loss in capital. The market expects 100 basis points be his firm expects somewhat (50-75) less. | 2011-01-10 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 20.680 | Philip Doyle | (A Top Pick Feb 5/10. Up 1.75%.) Chose this over government as he thinks there is a better value in the corporate space. | 2010-08-20 | |
| BUY | 20.660 | Marc-Andre Gaudreau | 1-5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. Individual investors need to have a diversified portfolio and ETF’s are a good way to go as they have lower management fees. | 2010-08-19 | |
| Comment | 20.510 | Hank Cunningham | 1-5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. Likes laddered approach over all and they should satisfy a smaller investor with small amounts to invest but would prefer a 7 or 10 year ladder. | 2010-07-21 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.300 | Richard Croft | 1-5 year Ladder Corp Bond ETF. Thinks interest rates are going up and part of that is reflected in the bond market. He would hesitate. If you were going to buy a bond ETF, he would stay on the short end of the curve. | 2010-04-23 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.500 | Randy LeClair | 1-5 year Ladder Corps. You have to be cautious. With rates so low when they make their adjustments, this will probably going to be a bit of a loser over the next 6-12 months. | 2010-03-29 | |
| BUY | 20.860 | Christine Horoyski | Passive ETF. Laddered 1-5 year bonds, equally. Lower yield and less interest rate sensitivity. | 2010-02-22 | |
| TOP PICK | 20.870 | Philip Doyle | 1-5 Year Ladder Corporate Bond ETF. Gives a diversified portfolio, which includes bonds when it's a challenging time to be investing in bonds. Protected by short durations. By laddering, duration is kept down 1 to 3 years. Government bonds are not that attractive and this gives extra yield. | 2010-02-05 | |
| BUY | 20.710 | Joey Mack | A great choice for a TFSA. He is a big proponent of the laddering your bond portfolio. | 2010-01-06 | |
| Comment | 20.700 | Mark Carpani | 1-5 Year Ladder Corp Bond ETF. Fairly short-term investment with all the securities being under 5 years. If there is a backup in interest rates because of inflation expectations, there could be a setback in price but risk would be fairly low so doesn't see a problem for the short-term. | 2009-12-29 | |
| BUY | 20.710 | Richard Croft | 1-5 year laddered bond portfolio. It’s a low risk. If you have a sizeable portfolio, you could ladder your own portfolio of GICs and save the costs. | 2009-10-23 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.550 | Norman Levine | XCB, CBO: yield between government and corporate bonds are narrowing, so risk/return is not the same as it was. Would not be chasing corporate bonds. | 2009-10-13 | |
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| DON'T BUY | 20.820 | Mark Carpani | Claymore 1-5year Ladder Corporate Bond ETF. Short term in nature and he would encourage you to look out further on the yield curve into a mid term or universe type product and preferably corporates. | 2009-09-21 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.830 | Prakash Hariharan | Rallied well so probably take some profits here. He is not a big fan of ETFs. These are pretty good instruments, however, for broad exposure short term. | 2009-08-18 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.580 | Mark Carpani | 1 to 5 yr Ladder Corp Bond ETF. There are better alternatives available. The short end of the yield curve (1 to 5 years), especially on a laddered basis, the rates are fairly low. A lot of the money has been made on this part of the yield curve. Would suggest iShares Cdn Corp Bond E.T.F. (XCB-T) instead, which has a fairly good yield of about 4.8%. | 2009-07-21 | |
| BUY | 20.540 | Jeff Black | Ladder bond approach and short term in nature. Spreads out maturities over many years. | 2009-04-30 | |
| BUY | 20.450 | Som Seif | Inverse ETFs can be bought in registered accounts, but there are more sophisticated ways to do the same thing in a registered account. Same for XCB-T | 2009-04-22 | |
| BUY | 20.300 | Joey Mack | Great product. Ladder portfolio process is a one that he has been preaching for 12 years. Very low cost fund also. | 2009-03-16 | |
| Comment | 20.280 | Som Seif | 1 to 4 year laddered corporate bonds. The minimum rating of the bonds is A so there are no BBB bonds. It is staggered in terms of the maturity. | 2009-03-13 |
