Stock price when the opinion was issued
Likes it. A little more restricted than the ZWH, and the yield is about 1.5% lower than that one. Might be better for growth instead of income.
His least favourite BMO ETF, terrible way to get exposure to US equities. Not because it's BMO or because of the structure, but because it's the Dow. DJIA is weighted by the size of a company's stock, so higher prices get more weight than lower. Terrible index.
He'd much prefer an ETF that's in the S&P 500 or an equal-weight US market exposure.
If the market is going to be volatile in the Dow Jones and the premiums are good, you can pick up a pretty good yield on this. His preferred way of playing the Dow is straight up and in US dollars. People should take a really close look at the Dow’s 30 components. (Underperformed the S&P 500 in 2013.) It has a lot of very good high-quality dividend paying stocks. You could probably take a good hard look inside and find some interesting names that you might want to include in your portfolio.