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Larry Berman CFA, CMT, CTA
Life & Banc Split Corp.
LBS-T
DON'T BUY
Aug 11, 2025
$9.600
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LBS vs. FTN An interesting structure, but they have their own at his shop. One is a play on ENB. Very optimistic about the potential for ENB to continue raising its dividend. He also has a real estate split with a mix of long-term value REITs and industrial exposure to access the e-commerce trend.
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Has a degree of leverage in it. You're buying exposure to a basket of great Canadian stocks with dividends. Leverage can be in the range of 150-200%. When it's going up, it's great. But when it's going down, not so much.
He wouldn't add leverage to a portfolio now with anybody's money. We're in a high-risk period when markets are pretty fully valued, and all kinds of economic growth risks are in front of us.
In April after the tariffs, with markets down 15-20%, there were much better valuations and it was a much better time to add leverage. If you look at all the cycles over 100 years for US large caps, the average drawdown is 13%, and that's the point where you start looking. Bear in mind that the average recession has a drawdown of 29%. There is a time in a market cycle to add leverage, but now is not one of those times.