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, Adam Mayers, & Paul Bamford.
Recent Issues
tii2414 (July 25, 2024)
Rate resets revisited… Shawn Allen’s preferred share updates… A tale of two gold funds… The risk/reward dilemma… Richard Croft updates Power Corp., CIBC, Manulife… Gordon Pape updates Enbridge, Fortis
tii2413 (July 11, 2024)
Immigration boosts stock returns… This month’s Top Pick: InterRent REIT… Gordon Pape updates Russel Metals, iShares 0-5 Years TIPS Bond Index ETF, Harvest Brand Leaders Plus Income ETF
tii2412 (June 27, 2024)
A mixed first half… Forget bank deposits, buy the shares… National Bank buys CWB… Gavin Graham updates AltaGas, Ecora Resources, Lundin Mining, Sucor Energy… Top PHN fund reopens
tii2411 (June 13, 2024)
A rock and a hard place… Infrastructure ETFs offer hidden value… Top Picks: iShares Global Infrastructure Index ETF, BMO Global Infrastructure Index ETF… Adam Mayers updates TC Energy… Gordon Pape updates Innergex
tii2410 (May 30, 2024)
US utility stocks surge… Gordon Pape’s Top Pick: Southern Company… Gordon Pape updates Emera Inc., Duke Energy… Copper-bottomed certainty… Gavin Graham’s Top Pick: BHP Billiton… Gavin Graham updates Intact Financial, Leon’s Furniture, Pason Systems
tii2409 (May 15, 2024)
AI may rescue green energy… Corby’s high dividend worth a toast… Adam Mayers updates BMO Aggregate Bond Index ETF… Gordon Pape updates Enbridge… Members’ Corner: Bond funds
tii2408 (April 25, 2024)
Hydro One transmits steady growth… Debunking covered call myths… Richard Croft updates Power Corp., CIBC… Balanced Portfolio rebounds… Gordon Pape updates Medical Properties Trust, Russel Metals… Your Questions: Transferring to a TFSA
Recent Updates
Corby Spirits and Wines (TSX: CSW.A)
Corby is the producer of the best-selling Canadian whisky J P Wiser’s as well as Lamb’s Navy Rum, Polar Ice vodka, and Ungava gin. Its purchase of 90% of Ace Beverage Group for $148.5 million in July 2023 gave it a strong position in the rapidly growing ready-to-drink (RTD) segment of hard sodas and premixed cocktails. Pernod Ricard, the international drinks group, which owns a majority stake in Corby, distributes its brands such as Absolut vodka, Ballantine and Chivas Regal whisky, Beefeater gin, and Malibu rum through Corby.
Buy
Canadian Tire Corp. (TSX: CTC.A, OTC: CDNAF)
In addition to its 503 dealer-operated Canadian Tire stores, CTC also owns and directly operates Mark’s, with 383 stores, and 354 sports stores (SportChek, Sports Expert, Atmosphere, Athlete’s World, and others). As well, it has 279 gasoline bar locations, plus PartSource, Party City, and Pro Hockey Life, which total 169 stores.
Canadian Tire, through its bank subsidiary is also a large MasterCard issuer with 2.3 million active credit card holders with average account balances of $3,224 each. That’s $7.4 billion in credit card receivables.
Buy
Lundin Mining Corp. (TSX: LUN, OTC: LUNMF)
Lundin Mining is a Canadian/Swedish base-metals mining company. In the year ended Dec. 31, 2024, Lundin produced 369,000 tonnes of copper, 192,000 tonnes of zinc, and 158,000 oz. of gold, as well as 8,000 tonnes of nickel from the Eagle mine in Michigan. This generated revenues of $4.11 billion. Of that, $695 million was from its European zinc mining operations at Zinkgruvan in Sweden and Neves Corvo in Portugal. These were sold to Swedish mining group Boliden.
Buy
Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG)
Cincinnati-based P&G is a giant in the cleaning products business as well as personal health care and grooming. The odds are your bathroom, kitchen, and laundry are stocked with P&G products. The long list of brands includes Tide, Bounce, Pampers, Downy, Bounty, Charmin, Always, Tampax, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Old Spice, Pantene, Cascade, Febreze, Oral-B, Mr. Clean, Crest, Scope, Vicks, Ivory, and Secret.
Hold
Russel Metals Inc. (TSX: RUS, OTC: RUSMF)
Given the onerous 50% tariffs Donald Trump has placed on US steel and aluminum imports, you’d think that this is a terrible time to be in the metals business in Canada.
But not everyone in the industry seems to be suffering. Russel Metals Inc. (TSX: RUS), which we recommended in November 2021 at $35.72, seems to be doing just fine, thanks.