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
tii2613 (July 9, 2026)
International dividends… Top Pick: RBC Quant EAFE Dividend Leaders ETF… Gordon Pape’s updates: Russel Metals, BMO Aggregate Bond Index ETF, BMO Covered Call Dow Jones Industrial Average Hedged to CAD ETF, BMO Global Consumer Staples Hedged to CAD Index ETF
tii2612 (June 25, 2026)
Some central banks raise rates… Top Pick: Eldorado Gold… REITs: market review and update: Boardwalk REIT, Choice Properties REIT… Gavin Graham’s Updates: Canadian National Railway, Watts Water Technologies… Did Bitcoin break?
tii2611 (June 11, 2026)
Choosing a dividend fund… Industrials offer profit potential… Top Pick: Harvest Industrial Leaders Income ETF… Gordon Pape updates BCE, Pembina Pipeline
tii2610 (May 28, 2026)
Utilities merger pays off… Stocks support Balanced Portfolio… Consumer stocks provide safe harbour… Gavin Graham’s Top Pick: Restaurant Brands International… Gavin Graham’s updates: Canadian Tire, Leon’s Furniture, Fairfax Financial
tii2609 (May 14, 2026)
Are energy dividends safe?… Does currency hedging boost returns?… David Kitai’s Top Pick
tii2608 (April 30, 2026)
Big gain for High Yield Portfolio… Outside the income-box thinking… Richard Croft updates CIBC, Manulife Financial, BMO Short Corporate Bond Index ETF… Copper isn’t gold, but it’s close… Gordon Pape’s Top Pick: Amerigo Resources
tii2607 (April 16, 2026)
Where now for energy?… Update on CI Energy Giants… Split preferreds offer strong cash flow… Rudy Luukko’s Top Pick: SPLT
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.