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
tii1311 (June 13, 2013)
Changing times…June updates: Firm Capital, Brookfield Infrastructure LP, Inter Pipeline…Your questions answered: Big 8 split preferreds
tii1310 (May 30, 2013)
Corporate bond redemptions: an increasing problem…The ABCs of REIT investing…May’s Top Pick: Norbord Inc….May updates
tii1309 (May 9, 2013)
Think total return…May updates: Crombie REIT, Calloway REIT, CenturyLink, TAL International Group
tii1308 (April 25, 2013)
High yield = high risk…Factor personal stress in your portfolio…Financials having a much better year…April?s Top Pick: Cambridge High Income Fund
tii1307 (April 11, 2013)
DPS fund changing gears…April updates: Laurentian Bank preferreds, Chemtrade convertibles, Blue Ribbon Income Fund, iShares DEX All-Corporate Bond Index Fund…Your Questions: AltaGas payout…Your Comments: Preferred share ladder…Associate editor appointed
tii1306 (March 20, 2013)
Brookfield policies questioned …Tread carefully with convertible debentures…A good year for equity income…March’s Top Pick: Rogers Sugar convertibles…March updates: Enerplus Corp, TAL International
tii1305 (March 6, 2013)
Balanced Portfolio on track…March updates: National Bank, Manitoba Telecom, Brookfield Infrastructure LP…Your Comments: Diversified Preferred Share Trust
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
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.