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
tii2220 (October 27, 2022)
Dividend yields hit multi-year highs… Top Pick: Definity Financial Corp…. Gavin Graham updates Fairfax Financial, Stella-Jones, CN Rail, Corby Spirits and Wines… Bear bites Balanced Portfolio… Gordon Pape updates Emera… Ryan Irvine’s fall events
tii2219 (October 13, 2022)
Utilities pay off… This month’s Top Pick: Duke Energy… Gordon Pape updates Canadian Utilities… Your Questions: What sectors to choose?
tii2218 (September 29, 2022)
High-Yield Portfolio setback… Retail REITs provide good opportunities… This month’s Top Pick: Primaris REIT… Gavin Graham’s REIT updates: Slate Grocery, Crombie, Automotive Properties, Granite… Gordon Pape’s ETF updates: Harvest Brands Leaders Plus, iShares 1-5 Year Laddered Corporate Bond
tii2217 (September 15, 2022)
Inflation protection… This month’s Top Pick: iShares 0-5 Years TIPS Bond Index ETF… Gordon Pape updates BMO Group, Innergex Renewable Energy, The North West Company… Your Questions: Interest rates and the BoC
tii2216 (August 25, 2022)
RRIF Portfolio posts gain… If it looks like a recession… Richard Croft updates Power Corporation, Manulife Financial… Gordon Pape updates Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC, Principal Financial Group, B&G Foods, Western Union, Procter & Gamble
tii2215 (August 11, 2022)
The 5% solution… Gordon Pape updates BMO Equal Weight Utilities Index ETF, The Coca-Cola Company… Gavin Graham updates Boralex… Your Questions: Russel Metals, Algonquin dividends… Pro’s Posts: Strip bond ETFs
tii2214 (July 28, 2022)
Bond angst… We’ll always need power (and much more)… Top Pick: AltaGas… Gordon Pape updates Brookfield Renewable Partners, Brookfield Infrastructure LP… Gavin Graham updates Diageo, Unilever, Fiera Capital, Boralex, Suncor… Members’ Corner: Interest rates
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.