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| TOP PICK | 16.060 | John Hood | A Core Holding. Hedged to Canadian Dollars. It was one of the first things he bought in Feb., 2009. He continues to be bullish on the US. Employment is improving, increasingly independent in terms of Energy. This rally could last for some time. | 2012-03-28 | |
| BUY | 16.060 | John Hood | S&P 500, US$ hedged. It is the grand daddy of them all. | 2012-03-28 | |
| TOP PICK | 15.940 | Greg Newman | Nat Gas will be compress for a little bit. Golds are dealing with cost pressures. Metal are getting pinched from China. Insurance companies in the states are cheaper and banks really do have a better opportunity if things get better down there. Canadians do not own enough of the US because of all the false starts. | 2012-03-13 | |
| TOP PICK | 15.640 | John Hood | Is bullish on the US economy. | 2012-03-09 | |
| TOP PICK | 15.300 | John Hood | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. Always has this one in his portfolio. You want to be in the S&P which is a broad market index. | 2012-02-03 | |
| TOP PICK | 14.410 | John Hood | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. | 2011-12-22 | |
| TOP PICK | 14.320 | John Hood | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. With this one, you are buying the market. He always has this one in his portfolio. Feels the US market wants to go out but keeps getting whacked down by European concerns. | 2011-11-04 | |
| BUY | 13.130 | John DeGoey | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. One of his core ETF recommendations for clients who buy ETFs.. | 2011-10-05 | |
| TOP PICK | 13.990 | John Hood | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. This is one that he keeps in his portfolios all the time. Thinks the US market wants to run a little bit here. | 2011-09-16 | |
| TOP PICK | 14.850 | John Hood | S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. | 2011-07-29 | |
| TOP PICK | 14.660 | John Hood | (Top Pick Jun 8/10, Up 21%) Hedged, S&P 500 A Core Holding. It is in every portfolio of every client. | 2011-06-10 | |
| TOP PICK | 15.390 | John Hood | (A Top Pick May 5/10. Up 15.82%.) S&P 500 Cdn$ ETF. Likes it because he is participating in a broad US market and it is hedged to the dollar. | 2011-05-06 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 14.900 | John DeGoey | (Top Pick Feb 19/10, Up 17.82) Hedged, luckily. S&P has had a very good 2 years. He doesn’t expect this continue. We have 14 weeks of quantitative easing. US Market could be in for a slow down for the rest of this year. | 2011-03-23 | |
| TOP PICK | 14.980 | John Hood | (Top Pick May 5/10, Up 12.59%) Will be buying more but not now, he will wait. Is hedged to Canadian $. | 2011-03-11 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 15.210 | Brooke Thackray | (A Top Pick Nov 1/10. Up 12.73%.) S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. If you are in it, it’s a great place to be for the next few months. | 2011-02-28 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 15.140 | John DeGoey | (A Top Pick Feb 19/10. Up 19.4%.) S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. You are trying top capture the largest 500 stocks in the US but hedged for the Cdn$. | 2011-02-10 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 14.410 | John DeGoey | (A Top Pick Feb 19/10. Up 15.36%.) S&P 500 (CAD-Hedged) ETF. When you combine the 3 Picks, it gives you 3 of your 4 main equity components to give a cheap and broad diversification. | 2010-12-29 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 14.070 | Terry Shaunessy | (A Top Pick Sept 14/10. Up 8.08%.) Still likes. | 2010-12-02 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 13.590 | John DeGoey | (Top Pick Jan 4/10, Up 4.4%) Tax effective and currency hedged. Cheap. | 2010-11-23 | |
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| TOP PICK | 13.590 | Brooke Thackray | S&P500. He expects strong performance over the next 6 months. This is a good solid core position over the next 6 months. | 2010-11-01 | |
| TOP PICK | 12.870 | Terry Shaunessy | (A Top Pick May 11/10. Down 3.1%.) S&P 500 (Cdn$-Hedged) ETF. Expecting the Cdn$ to go to PAR and once we are there we can go back to buying US ETF’s. Expecting the US market to do well with the S&P 500 up 50%. | 2010-09-14 | |
| TOP PICK | 12.650 | John Hood | S&P 500 Cdn $ Hedged ETF. | 2010-07-30 | |
| TOP PICK | 12.150 | John Hood | S&P 500 Cdn$ ETF. | 2010-07-07 | |
| TOP PICK | 12.300 | John Hood | Core holding. He always holds it. The options aren’t as liquid as he would like. | 2010-06-08 | |
| TOP PICK | 13.390 | Terry Shaunessy | S&P 500 $Cdn ETF. Thinks US large-cap market is where you want to be. Expects a great deal of earnings momentum. Prefers using a hedge. | 2010-05-11 | |
| TOP PICK | 13.500 | John Hood | S&P 500 Cdn$ ETF. This has always been a core holding. You always need something that represents the S&P 500 that is currency hedged. | 2010-05-05 | |
| TOP PICK | 12.840 | John DeGoey | Currency hedged, which is important with the Canadian dollar so strong around the world. Exposure to 500 companies. | 2010-02-19 | |
| TOP PICK | 13.090 | John DeGoey | S&P 500 $Cdn ETF. This is a US ETF hedged back into Canadian dollars. Cdn$ continues to gain strength. | 2010-01-04 | |
| BUY | 12.570 | Richard Croft | Not concerned about risks. Derivatives risk is not as big as people think it is. The risk is that the US$ would strengthen over the next year. | 2009-10-23 | |
| PAST TOP PICK | 10.620 | Brooke Thackray | (A Top Pick Nov 10/08. Down 3.16% for 12 months but this a 6 months call and he is now out of this. Time of year when he is more conservative but will go in again in Oct 27.) | 2009-05-05 | |
| TOP PICK | 10.670 | Hap (Robert) Sneddon FCSI | Chart shows a little head and shoulders pattern and it is trying to gently move up. There is resistance around $15. | 2009-01-08 | |
| BUY | 10.540 | Som Seif | You can use as a hedge to eliminate the high risk of the US$. | 2008-12-12 | |
| TOP PICK | 10.120 | Don Vialoux | S&P 500. This one is completely hedged against the decline of the US$. He is looking for the US market to bottom in the next 3 to 4 weeks. This is what you want to enter. Then look for a good move right through until the end of April. | 2008-11-24 | |
| TOP PICK | 11.000 | Brooke Thackray | S&P 500: May was when you should have been conservative but now is the time to get back into the marketplace. He is looking for an increase in the broad market. This is a good way to play it. | 2008-11-10 | |
| TOP PICK | 11.960 | Don Vialoux | You want to buy the US market right now and in Cdn$. US$ will go lower. There is a hiding period from the time the US president is elected until he takes control, end of October to end of January. Continue to hold until April/09. | 2008-10-20 | |
| Comment | 17.210 | Don Vialoux | The seasonality for the S&P500 tends to be from the end of September to the end of April. If you had purchased in this period, you would have made a profit in 9 of the last 10 periods with an average return of 8.6%. From the end of April to the end of September, it has gone down 2.7%. If you own, continue to hold. If you want a short, wait until next spring. | 2006-10-17 | |
| BUY | 16.420 | Richard Croft | An excellent way to gain exposure to the US market. It is essentially a Cnd$ based version of the S&P 500 index. (See also SPY-A entry.) | 2006-08-30 | |
| SHORT | 16.420 | Veronika Hirsch | A good one to short. Internally diversified so won't blow up on you as a result of a takeover. | 2006-08-29 |
