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
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
tii2516 (August 28, 2025)
Rate cuts would benefit utilities… Top Pick: Dominion Energy… RRIF Portfolio posts gain… Gavin Graham updates Canadian Tire, Corby Spirit and Wine, Lundin Mining
Recent Updates
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO)
Everyone knows about Coca-Cola. What you may not know is that Coke is just one of more than 500 drink brands offered by this company. If you sip on Sprite, Fanta, or Minute Maid orange juice, you’re drinking a Coca-Cola product. Ditto for Dasani water, Powerade, Costa coffee, and more.
Hold
Hydro One
Hydro One has two main businesses: the transmission of electricity and the distribution of electricity to utilities throughout the province. Overall, it transmits 98% of Ontario’s electricity and serves 1.5 million customers. The province owns 47% of the common shares.
Hold
UK iShares MSCI ETF (NYSE: EWU)
This ETF invests in the UK’s FTSE100 Index, which consists mostly of large-capitalization U.K.-based companies. Launched in March 1996, it has US$3 billion in assets under management and has a reasonable MER of 0.5%.
Buy
Fomentos Economico Mexicano SA (Femsa)
Femsa is the operator of the 25,300-store chain of OXXO convenience stores, 4,400 pharmacies, and 558 gas stations through Central and South America. It also owns 2,700 Valora convenience stores in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. And it recently bought the 249-store Delek convenience store chain in the US Southwest. Femsa is operating in Central and South America, as the largest bottler in the Coca-Cola system.
Buy
Rio Tinto plc ADR (NYSE: RIO)
London-headquartered Rio Tinto is one of the longest established diversified mining companies in the world, with exposure to iron ore in Australia and Canada (it is the world’s largest iron ore producer) aluminum, lithium, and copper, as well as borates and titanium, which it is looking to dispose of.