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
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
tii2407 (April 11, 2024)
Cash from energy… TC Energy spinoff coming soon… Adam Mayers updates TC Energy… Gordon Pape updates Firm Capital… Gavin Graham updates Boralex
tii2406 (March 28, 2024)
High Yield Portfolio rebounds… Central banks signal rate cuts ahead… Top Pick: Canadian Tire… Gavin Graham updates Saputo, Stella-Jones, Canadian Natural Resources… Your questions: Managing a small RRIF
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 Infrastructure Partners (TSX: BIP.UN, NYSE: BIP)
This is a Bermuda-based limited partnership that owns infrastructure assets in North and South America, Europe, and Australia. These include railways, ports, transmission lines, toll roads, utilities, and more.