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
tii2222 (November 25, 2022)
What ails the clean energy sector?… Time to revisit bonds… This month’s Top Picks: BMO Short Corporate Bond Index ETF, iShares Core Canadian Short-Term Bond ETF… Richard Croft updates CIBC… Gordon Pape updates BMO Global Consumer Staples Hedged to CAD Index ETF
tii2221 (November 10, 2022)
Pipe dreams… Summit REIT taken over… Gordon Pape updates Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble… Your Questions: The right time to buy
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
Recent Updates
Metro Inc. (TSX: MRU)
Metro Inc. is a large grocery and pharmacy chain operating primarily in Quebec, where 71% of its grocery stores are located. The remaining 29% are in Ontario. Similarly, 83% of its pharmacies are in Quebec, 12% in Ontario, and 4% in New Brunswick.
Buy
AT&T (NYSE: T)
AT&T serves more than 110 million wireless subscribers. The company is now a pure telecommunications operation, having disposed of its Warner Media division a few years ago and its stake in DIRECTV earlier this month.
Buy
iShares Global Infrastructure Index ETF (TSX: CIF)
This ETF has been a top performer since its launch in 2008. It offers global exposure to companies in the transportation, water, and electricity services sectors. Most of its holdings are in Canada and the US.
Buy
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.
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.