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
tii2102 (January 28, 2021)
Firm Capital defies pessimists… This month’s Top Pick: Procter & Gamble… Seeds of division… Richard Croft’s covered call recommendations… Richard Croft’s updates: CIBC… Gordon Pape’s updates: Dream Industrial REIT… Paul Bamford’s updates: Granite REIT, Morguard REIT… Your Questions: Transferring funds to an RRSP
tii2101 (January 14, 2021)
In this issue: Industrial REITs are hot Brookfield to the rescue Gordon Pape updates Morneau Shepell, B&G Foods, Enbridge Your Questions: Loss on GOVT Next regular issue: January 28 Download the PDF INDUSTRIAL REITS ARE HOT By Gordon Pape, Editor a …
tii2024 (December 17, 2020)
Overlooked high-yielders… Supporting structures… Top Pick: Stella-Jones… Gavin Graham’s updates: Pason Systems, Richards Packaging Income Fund… Gordon Pape’s updates: BMO Financial Group, Horizons Active Cdn Divided ETF, CI First Asset Canadian Buyback Index ETF, Canoe EIT Income Fund, BMO… Covered Call Dow Jones Industrial Average Hedged to CAD ETF… Your Questions: BEP split… Last chance to beat the price increase
tii2023 (December 3, 2020)
REITs in recovery… Gordon Pape updates Fortis, Emera, Innergex… Your Questions: Dividend payments; What about SRET?… Price increase
tii2022 (November 26, 2020)
Big payouts – but for how long?… New traditions… This month’s Top Pick: iShares Core Balanced ETF Portfolio… Gordon Pape’s updates: PrairieSky Royalty, Inter Pipeline, Energy Giants Covered Call ETF, Harvest Healthcare Leaders Income ETF, BMO U.S. Dividend ETF, iShares S&P/TSX Composite High Dividend Index ETF… Gavin Graham’s update: Boralex… Your Questions: RRIF with no money… Beat the price increase!
tii2021 (November 12, 2020)
Focus on quality… This month’s Top Pick: U.S. Preferred ETF… Updates: Brookfield Renewable Partners… Your Questions: Wants opinion on VRIF… Correction: BMO yield
tii2020 (October 29, 2020)
Second wave hits stocks… Balanced portfolio bounces back… Making sense of retail REITs… Gordon Pape’s updates: TC Energy, Algonquin Power & Utilities… Gavin Graham’s update: Sagen MI Canada… Your Questions: U.S. bonds
Recent Updates
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
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
BMO Financial Group (TSX, NYSE: BMO)
Established in 1817, BMO Financial Group has more than 47,000 employees and provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management, and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers. It conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, and BMO Capital Markets. The company also has a strong presence in the US Midwest through BMO Harris Bank and BMO Private Bank.
Buy
LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A (NYSE: LYB)
LyondellBasell produces polypropylene, which is used to make plastic car parts, packaging, and consumer products. It also produces ethylene and polyethylene. These are used in a wide variety of things from PVC pipes and plastic siding to medical devices and prosthetics.