Designed to help Canadians find investment solutions to the two big problems they’re facing: low interest rates and volatile stock markets, the Income Investor was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of the top five investment newsletters in Canada. If you need income from investments with minimal risk, the Income Investor covers all types of income securities including income trusts, preferred shares, high-yielding common stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and GICs. Any security that generates cash flow is fair game for our experts.
Edited and published by Gordon Pape. Editor: Mike Keerma.
With Gavin Graham, Shawn Allen, Richard Croft, & David Kitai.
Recent Issues
tii2405 (March 14, 2024)
Bonds still lagging… Choosing the right dividend fund… This month’s Top Pick: iShares S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index ETF… Gordon Pape updates Algonquin Power and Utilities, Pembina Pipeline Corp.
tii2404 (February 29, 2024)
RRIF portfolio recovers… Active vs. passive… Gavin Graham updates Canadian National Railway, Calian Group… Gordon Pape updates Brookfield Renewables… Your Questions: Portfolio size
tii2403 (February 15, 2024)
Fairfax under fire… BCE cuts leave Trudeau steaming… Gavin Graham updates The Keg, Johnson & Johnson
tii2402 (January 25, 2024)
Should you invest in Yield Shares ETFs?… Richard Croft updates Manulife Financial… Gordon Pape updates Enbridge, Firm Capital, Mullen Group, Innergex Renewable Energy… Gavin Graham updates Definity Financial, Peyto Development and Exploration, Capital Power… Your Questions: Wants US cash flow
tii2401 (January 11, 2024)
Bond rally stalls… Low risk ways to build your TFSA… Top Pick: BMO Aggregate Bond Index ETF… Gordon Pape updates XBB… Gavin Graham updates Slate Grocery REIT
tii2324 (December 21, 2023)
Two little words… Lower rates will benefit banks… Top Pick: National Bank… Gavin Graham updates Scotiabank, Canadian Western Bank… Perpetual preferred shares remain timely… Gordon Pape updates Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Renewable Partners… Your Questions: Advisor wants to change asset allocation… Price increase – final reminder
tii2323 (December 7, 2023)
Return of the bond bull… This month’s Top Pick: iShares Core Canadian Long Term Bond Index ETF… Gordon Pape’s updates: Canadian Utilities, NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT, Vanguard US Aggregate Bond Index ETF… Your Questions: What’s in store for this T-bill fund?
Recent Updates
Mullen Group Ltd. (TSX: MTL)
Mullen Group is an Alberta-based transportation and logistics company, with a market cap of $2.64 billion. It’s mainly known as a trucking company, but Mullen also provides specialized services related to the energy, mining, forestry, and construction industries in Western Canada. These include water management, fluid hauling, and environmental reclamation.
We recommended the stock in May 2023 at $15.46. The major attractions were a steady share price and a monthly dividend of $0.06 per share ($0.72 a year), which at the time generated a yield of 4.7%. In August 2024, the monthly dividend was raised to $0.07 ($0.84 a year), for a yield of 2.8% at the recent price of $29.75.
The rise in the share price reduced the yield, but those who bought at the time of our original recommendation have a capital gain of 86% to compensate.
Hold
Keyera Corp. (TSX: KEY, OTC: KEYUF)
Keyera provides services such as gathering, processing, fractionation, storage, transportation, and marketing liquid natural gas (LNG). It does not do any exploration or production.
Hold
BMO Global Infrastructure ETF (TSX: ZGI)
This was the first ETF launched by Bank of Montreal in 2010 and is a good-sized fund with $222 million in assets. It offers reasonable liquidity and passively follows the Dow Jones Brookfield Global Infrastructure North American Listed Index, with weightings based on the market capitalization of the stocks in the index.
Hold
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX, NYSE: CM)
Since our initial Buy recommendation in May 2019, CIBC has returned between 430% and 450% including reinvested dividends.
Hold
Brookfield Renewable Partners (TSX: BEP.UN, NYSE: BEP)
Brookfield operates one of the world’s largest publicly traded platforms for renewable power and decarbonization solutions. It operates over 40 gigawatts of total installed capacity including hydroelectric, wind, solar, and utility-scale battery energy storage systems, alongside sustainable solutions like nuclear services (via Westinghouse Electric) and green fuels.