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| TOP PICK | 20.480 | John De Goey | Cdn Corp Bond ETF. Doesn't think there are risks any more with corporate bonds. This will give you a bit of yield pickup without venturing into preferreds. | 2010-07-12 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.490 | Hank Cunningham | They never mature. You are forced to buy whatever they buy and that is 35% financials because they is part of the index. Go with handpicked bonds. | 2010-06-07 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.110 | Richard Croft | Cdn Corporate 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 | |
| WEAK BUY | 20.640 | John Hood | 6-year duration so it is a little more sensitive to an increase in interest rates. He is not particularly nervous about this one. | 2010-03-04 | |
| BUY | 20.470 | Christine Horoyski | Passive ETF. It is the broad corporate universe. More interest-rate sensitivity, but higher yield. | 2010-02-22 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 20.350 | Jeff Black | (A Top Pick Apr 30/09. Up 8.75%.) Corporate bonds. Reasonable place to be. Does not expect much further spread reductions. | 2010-01-14 | |
| Comment | 20.150 | John De Goey | iShares Cdn Corp Bond ETF. Most people are expecting rate hikes in the 2nd half of this year and this will have an adverse impact on all Bond ETFs. He doesn't expect the rate hikes will be that large. | 2010-01-04 | |
| Comment | 20.530 | Hank Cunningham | Cdn Corp Bond ETF. Prefers over the Cdn Bond Market ETF (XBB-T) because of its shorter duration and the higher yield. 52% of it is in financials, which is a high percentage. | 2009-12-22 | |
| BUY | 20.750 | John Zechner | Canadian Corporate Bond ETF. Spread between corporate and government bonds have narrowed a fair bit. Owning an ETF in the sector makes a lot of sense. Better diversification. | 2009-11-30 | |
| Comment | 20.700 | Randy LeClair | Canadian corporate bond ETF. Bonds have had a pretty good run and if you own, you might want to consider locking in some of your gains. | 2009-11-27 | |
| HOLD | 20.430 | Hank Cunningham | Investment grade corporate bond ETF. The run this year has been excellent so far with 15%. Outlook for interest rate is fairly stable so you will at least earn the coupon rate. | 2009-10-30 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.130 | Norman Levine | XCB, XCO: 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 | |
| Comment | 20.410 | Som Seif | iShares Cdn Corp Bond ETF. Great vehicle. Can be used in a registered account. | 2009-10-05 | |
| Comment | 20.470 | Mark Carpani | iShares Cdn Corp Bond E.T.F. If you want to play bonds through an ETF, he would do it through corporate bonds. Fairly good quarterly dividend. | 2009-09-21 | |
| DON'T BUY | 20.450 | 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 | |
| Comment | 19.840 | Bill Carrigan | IShares Cdn Corp Bonds. There has been quite a bounce in this because the spreads between riskier assets have now narrowed. Looking at the overall picture he thinks bonds are going to be stable from here on in. Tendency is towards higher rates so there may be another window of 9 months. Not too much risk but would be careful. | 2009-07-02 | |
| DON'T BUY | 19.540 | Hank Cunningham | Corporate bond ETF. An accumulation of over 300 bonds (including all the financials) and you don't know what your return is going to be. This year they have done well because corporate bonds have outperformed the bond market. With individual corporate bonds, you know what the maturity date is and what the return is going to be. | 2009-05-08 | |
| BUY | 19.550 | Randy LeClair | Canadian Corporate Bond Index. This is the ETF that he thinks will shine this year. | 2009-05-05 | |
| TOP PICK | 19.410 | Jeff Black | There is a reason to have a bias towards corporates. Not high yield or high risk. Should be 50/50 government to Corporate. | 2009-04-30 | |
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| TOP PICK | 19.270 | Michael Herring | Would form a good core holding for an investor. Can be paired with other two top picks. Canadian bonds will not yield as high because the situation was not as severe in Canada as in the US | 2009-04-28 | |
| BUY | 19.290 | Som Seif | Good product without buying corporate bonds at the retail level. Same for CBO-T | 2009-04-22 | |
| BUY | 18.960 | Mark Carpani | Basket of Canadian corporate bonds that mimics the return of the corporate bond index. Pays a quarterly dividend. Last year paid out about $1.19 a share giving a 5% plus yield. A fairly conservative way to play the credit market without putting up a lot of cash. | 2009-04-01 | |
| Comment | 18.850 | Richard Croft | Canadian Corporate Bond iShares (XCB-T) or Canadian Universal Bond iShares (XBB-T)? Prefers the corporate bond one because if the economy turns, he feels they would do a little bit better. | 2009-03-27 | |
| BUY | 18.500 | Mark Carpani | Canadian corporate bonds. Mimics the return of the corporate index. A good way for a small investor to diversify into corporate bonds without having to buy 1 or 2 specific bonds. Pays between 4% and 6%. | 2009-01-27 | |
| DON'T BUY | 18.620 | Kevin O'Leary | Doesn't see a lot of capital gain potential here. He isn’t that bullish on Canadian investment grade bonds as compared to US. They are very expensive. | 2009-01-21 | |
| TOP PICK | 19.400 | Mark Carpani | A lot of individual investors do not want to buy individual corporate bonds because it takes up too much of their portfolio. With this one, you are basically buying a piece of the Scotia Capital Corporate Market Bond Index. There are 138 corporate names that you are getting access to. Good cross-section. A little over 4% yield. | 2008-04-14 |
