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As of February 2025 stock is available to buy on TSX.
CDN $ or on USA-stock market?
Which denomination is better if have no USA $.
Long term hold in RRSP- NEXT 15 years

What is benefit of holding in CDN $

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Asked on April 6, 2025 7:09 am
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Well if you have no USD the better option would be the CDR (the CAD version).

The benefit of holding the CAD version is to keep it in your home currency and avoid currency conversion fees. You also get currency hedging with those CDRs, which means if the Canadian dollar strengthens, you will not see the foreign exchange losses you would owning USD.

On the flip side, you pay for that hedging to the tune of 0.6%~ a year. This will simply be represented by a difference in returns of the USD version and the CAD version. And on the other hand, if the CAD weakens against the USD, you won't realize the currency benefits that would bring.

I opt to own the USD version for most of my holdings, just because I have a long-term time horizon and hedging is less useful in that situation. You end up just paying fees for effectively nothing, as currency fluctuations tend to even out over the long term.

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Posted by Dan Kent
Answered on April 7, 2025 2:04 pm