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
tii2523 (December 4, 2025)
Does low-vol really work?… Top Pick: Brampton North American Low Volatility Dividend ETF… Lyondellbasell’s dividend streak… Adam Mayers updates Hydro One… Beat the price increase
tii2522 (November 27, 2025)
Balanced Portfolio records gain… Could auto parts be an opportunity?… This month’s Top Pick: Linamar… Gavin Graham updates Northland Power, Calian Group… Your Questions: Dominion Energy, Freehold Royalties… Members’ Corner: Ag Growth International… Beat the price increase
tii2521 (November 13, 2025)
US utilities worth a look… Outlook brightens for Telus… Adam Mayers updates Evolve Healthcare… Gordon Pape updates Coca-Cola
tii2520 (October 23, 2025)
Utilities on the rise… Bonds or preferreds? A tug of war… Richard Croft updates CIBC, Power Corp., Manulife Financial… Gordon Pape updates BMO Group, Exchange Income Corp…. Gordon Pape’s ETF updates
tii2519 (October 9, 2025)
Nervous? Think short… Top Pick: iShares Core Canadian Short Term Corporate Bond Index ETF… Infrastructure ETFs offer hidden value… Adam Mayers updates Metro… Gordon Pape updates AT …
tii2518 (September 25, 2025)
Falling rates boost High Yield Portfolio, Higher copper demand sparks Teck merger talk, This month’s Top Pick: Rio Tinto. Desjardins bids for Guardian, Grocery-anchored retail REITs
tii2517 (September 11, 2025)
Junk bonds: A risk-return balance… CT REIT offers safety, income… Adam Mayers updates iShares S&P/TSX Dividend Aristocrats Index ETF, South Bow Corp…. Gavin Graham updates National Bank, Saputo
Recent Updates
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
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
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.