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
tii1422 (November 27, 2014)
High Yield Portfolio averages 14%… Pitfalls of preferred shares… Inflation protection… November’s Top Pick: Brookfield Asset Management… November updates: Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, Alaris Royalty, B&G Foods… Housekeeping
tii1421 (November 13, 2014)
Blow wind, blow!… November updates: Genworth MIC, Intact Financial, Sun Life Financial, PHN High Yield Bond Fund… Housekeeping
tii1420 (October 30, 2014)
Get used to low rates… Balanced portfolio update… After the sell-off… October’s Top Pick: Fortis Inc. Cumulative Redeemable 4.75% First Preference Series J Shares… October updates: Bombardier’s 6.25% Series 4 Preferred Shares, Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Corp., Information Services Corp.
tii1419 (October 9, 2014)
Why buy bonds?… October updates: FLY Leasing, RioCan REIT, Pure Industrial REIT, Northern Property REIT
tii1418 (September 25, 2014)
Investing in expensive markets… September’s Top Pick: Milestone Apartments REIT… Gavin Graham’s Updates: Diageo, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Ag Growth International, Capital Power Corp., DH Corporation… September updates: Premium Brands Holding Corporation 5.5% Convertible Unsecured, Brookfield Energy Partners, B&G Foods, TransCanada Corp.
tii1417 (September 11, 2014)
Outside the box… September updates: Leisureworld, Ensco PLC, Brookfield Infrastructure LP, Brookfield Energy Partners… Your Questions Answered: RRIF transfer
tii1416 (August 28, 2014)
RRIF portfolio on track… Stay away from the bond market… Dividend growth as important as yield… August’s Top Pick: Canadian Utilities Cumulative Redeemable Second Preferred Shares BB… August updates: Tim Hortons, Premium Brands Holding Corp., TransCanada Corp.
Recent Updates
Sienna Senior Living Inc. (TSX: SIA, OTC: LWSCF)
Sienna Senior Living is one of Canada’s largest owners of seniors housing and the largest licensed long-term care provider in Ontario. The company owns a portfolio of 93 senior housing properties, operating an additional 12 for external owners. That real estate focused business and strong dividend yield makes it functionally equivalent to a REIT.
Buy
Dream Industrial REIT (TSX: DIR.UN, OTC: DREUF)
This REIT specializes in light industrial properties, mainly located in Canada but with a U.S. expansion strategy. It owns and operates a portfolio of 223 geographically diversified properties comprising approximately 20.2 million square feet of gross leasable area.
Buy
Choice Properties REIT (TSX: CHP.UN)
The Weston family-controlled Choice Properties REIT holds its Loblaw-anchored grocery store assets. On Dec. 31, 2025, Choice owned 699 properties, consisting of 68.5 million sq. ft., with 98.2% occupancy worth $18 billion. Loblaws comprised 59% of the total, leaving 28.3 million sq. ft. for third-party retailers. 83% of the total is necessity-based retailers, including groceries, quick service restaurants, pharmacies, liquor stores, and doctors offices.
Buy
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.