Archive for April, 2018

April 30, 2018

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Here’s a sign of the times:

Many Wall Street traders are concerned about being replaced by machines in the future, but at one Goldman Sachs Group Inc. unit it’s already happened.

“Equity trading: 15-20 years ago we had 500 people making markets in stocks. Today we have three,” Goldman Sachs President David Solomon said Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.

Solomon said the introduction of more technology into the trading business has made it more efficient for clients, while also introducing new risks. For Goldman Sachs, it has changed the mix of its workforce, as the bank has 9,000 engineers on staff and more employees are focused on regulation.

HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.3257 % 2,934.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.3257 % 5,384.9
Floater 3.41 % 3.64 % 88,944 18.18 4 0.3257 % 3,103.4
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1189 % 3,151.5
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.76 % 77,388 5.06 5 -0.1189 % 3,763.5
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1189 % 2,936.4
Perpetual-Premium 5.57 % -1.38 % 77,366 0.09 11 -0.0288 % 2,867.8
Perpetual-Discount 5.41 % 5.43 % 68,080 14.76 24 0.0847 % 2,940.1
FixedReset 4.33 % 4.75 % 165,449 5.72 103 -0.0128 % 2,511.0
Deemed-Retractible 5.15 % 5.67 % 85,764 5.62 28 -0.0903 % 2,938.9
FloatingReset 3.06 % 3.33 % 29,066 3.55 10 0.1126 % 2,762.6
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
IAG.PR.A Deemed-Retractible -1.18 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 21.77
Bid-YTW : 7.15 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 18.60
Bid-YTW : 7.90 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset 1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-30
Maturity Price : 16.58
Evaluated at bid price : 16.58
Bid-YTW : 4.94 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
VNR.PR.A FixedReset 76,300 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-30
Maturity Price : 23.01
Evaluated at bid price : 24.46
Bid-YTW : 4.91 %
TRP.PR.A FixedReset 51,800 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-30
Maturity Price : 19.55
Evaluated at bid price : 19.55
Bid-YTW : 5.12 %
BNS.PR.Z FixedReset 38,024 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2022-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.31
Bid-YTW : 4.40 %
NA.PR.E FixedReset 35,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-30
Maturity Price : 22.98
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 4.68 %
CM.PR.R FixedReset 26,624 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-07-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.12
Bid-YTW : 4.30 %
GWO.PR.M Deemed-Retractible 25,800 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-05-30
Maturity Price : 25.25
Evaluated at bid price : 26.05
Bid-YTW : -25.02 %
There were 17 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MFC.PR.L FixedReset Quote: 22.81 – 23.95
Spot Rate : 1.1400
Average : 0.6643

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.81
Bid-YTW : 5.91 %

MFC.PR.K FixedReset Quote: 22.75 – 23.30
Spot Rate : 0.5500
Average : 0.3978

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.75
Bid-YTW : 6.06 %

PVS.PR.B SplitShare Quote: 25.18 – 25.62
Spot Rate : 0.4400
Average : 0.2955

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2019-01-10
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.18
Bid-YTW : 4.24 %

CCS.PR.C Deemed-Retractible Quote: 23.02 – 23.64
Spot Rate : 0.6200
Average : 0.4973

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.02
Bid-YTW : 6.58 %

MFC.PR.C Deemed-Retractible Quote: 21.00 – 21.26
Spot Rate : 0.2600
Average : 0.1609

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 21.00
Bid-YTW : 7.72 %

HSE.PR.C FixedReset Quote: 24.40 – 24.64
Spot Rate : 0.2400
Average : 0.1542

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-30
Maturity Price : 24.07
Evaluated at bid price : 24.40
Bid-YTW : 5.34 %

LB Outlook Negative, says S&P

Monday, April 30th, 2018

Standard & Poor’s has announced:

  • •On Dec. 5, 2017, Montreal-based Laurentian Bank of Canada disclosed mortgage documentation and client representation issues in connection with mortgages sold to a third-party purchaser, which resulted in some repurchase actions and raised concerns around the rigor of the company’s underwriting procedures and risk control functions.
  • •Since then, the bank has undertaken a sample review of its mortgage portfolio. While the review is still ongoing, company disclosures available so far suggest to us that widespread underwriting lapses or mortgage document falsification issues are unlikely to emerge.
  • •We understand that the documentation issues largely pertain to documentation deficiencies as opposed to intentional client fraud and misrepresentations. We expect the bank’s recent remedial initiatives to enhance its quality control functions and underwriting procedures, and note the company has not recorded any deterioration in loan performance.
  • •We are therefore removing the long- and short-term ratings from CreditWatch negative and affirming them at ‘BBB/A-2’.
  • •The negative outlook primarily reflects LBC’s relatively concentrated position in Canadian residential mortgages and our concern over a potential reduction in the company’s projected risk-adjusted capital ratio.


Our negative outlook, however, incorporates our view that the company continues to be exposed to risks associated with its more concentrated exposure to Canadian residential mortgages relative to peers’, with meaningful exposure to the non-prime segment (approximately 8% of total mortgage loans) at a time when we have concerns around consumer indebtedness (see: “Canada Economic Risk Higher On Elevated House Prices And Household Debt And Mortgage Fraud; No Ratings Affected,” published Feb. 23, 2018, on RatingsDirect). LBC’s total loans, net of allowances, stood at C$36.7 billion as at Jan. 31, 2018, of which C$18.6 billion (or approximately 50.7%) are Canadian residential mortgages (commercial loans make up about 33.5% of the loan book). This concentration in residential mortgages contributes to a meaningfully larger proportion of operating revenues being derived from net interest income (approximately 66.9% in first-quarter 2018) relative to the average of the larger Canadian banks (approximately 51.9% for the same period). LBC’s residential mortgage loans through independent brokers and advisors grew by 19% year-over-year as of first-quarter 2018. We will continue to monitor LBC’s asset quality metrics in a moderating housing market. As well, we note that LBC’s funding and liquidity ratios remain among the weakest of its peer banks, with a customer loans to deposits ratio, stable funding ratio, and broad liquid assets to short-term wholesale funding ratio of 156.4%, 91.82%, and 0.8x, respectively, compared with a peer average of 113.4%, 109.94%, and 1.38x, respectively). However, given the bank’s growth strategy and funding plans, we expect these metrics to improve over time.

In addition, we believe that LBC could experience some changes to its capital planning process as it adopts the advanced internal rating-based (AIRB) approach to credit risk measurement (projected for fiscal 2020), from the current standardized approach. The bank indicated that the implementation of the AIRB approach remains a key initiative of its transformation plan in order to optimize regulatory capital, and because its regulatory ratios are expected to increase (the exact extent is still not known), we believe that capital optimization strategies may negatively affect the risk-adjusted capital (RAC) ratio.

The outlook is negative, largely reflecting our view of LBC’s risks associated with a relatively concentrated position in Canadian residential mortgages consistent with our concerns around elevated house prices, household debt, and mortgage fraud. The negative outlook also reflects a potential reduction in LBC’s projected RAC ratio as a result of its expected transition to the AIRB approach to credit risk measurement, from the current standardized approach, which would likely reduce its regulatory capital requirements.

Affected issues are LB.PR.H and LB.PR.J

April 27, 2018

Friday, April 27th, 2018

The Toronto Schlock Exchange provided some entertainment today:

UPDATE 4 – TMX has decided to shut down all markets for the remainder of the day. Trading will not resume today, including market on close. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further updates will be provided.

UPDATE 3 – Please be aware that all TMX markets continue to experience issues. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further updates will be provided.

UPDATE 2 – Please be aware that TMX continues to experience issues on all markets. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further updates will be provided.

I can’t find the original notice or “Update 1” on their site, but they did have notices on Twitter:

UPDATE – All TMX markets, including Montreal Exchange, are experiencing issues with trading, all users are equally impacted and are unable to connect to our Exchanges. We apologize for the inconvenience and continue to investigate. Further updates will be provided.
1 reply 22 retweets 5 likes

Please be aware that TMX equity markets are experiencing issues with trading, all users are equally impacted and are unable to connect to our Exchanges. We apologize for the inconvenience and continue to investigate. Further updates will be provided.

There’s no real explanation been put forward as to why this happened. Maybe somebody unexpectedly traded a marijuana stock. Perhaps they forgot to pay the electric bill. Or maybe – given the season – somebody did spring cleaning:

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Click for Big

One way or another, I am advised that the Historical Prices service – where I get the closing quotes – will not be ready for several hours. So I’ll update this post with the statistics tomorrow.

Update, 2018-4-28: The Exchange has released some details. It appears their redundancy wasn’t quite as redundant as one might hope! But don’t worry, Exchange fans! I’m sure they’re still the regulators’ darlings!

TMX Group today provided further details regarding the market interruption that affected trading on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), TSX Alpha Exchange (TSX Alpha) and Montreal Exchange (MX), on Friday, April 27.

The outage, which began at 1:37:25 pm EDT Friday on MX and 1:39:13 pm EDT on TSX, TSXV, and TSX Alpha, was caused by a hardware failure in a central storage appliance of the trading system. This hardware failure impacted both the primary and the redundant components preventing storage failover procedures from engaging. TMX confirms that this incident was not the result of a cybersecurity attack.

TMX began remediation measures Friday afternoon, which included replacing the defective storage module, verifying the integrity of data of all impacted databases and conducting a successful start-up validation of the entire trading enterprise. Given the time of the incident, we could not engage disaster recovery systems in time to ensure an orderly market re-open and closing session.

TMX confirms that all systems are ready for the start of business on Monday, April 30, 2018.

“We apologize to all of our valued clients across Canada’s capital markets and around the world, and to all of TMX Group’s stakeholders for Friday’s interruption in trading,” said Lou Eccleston, Chief Executive Officer of TMX Group. “Our team took immediate action to diagnose the problem and communicate with all of our participants while determining the cause and impacts. Due to the timing and the nature of the issue, we made the difficult but necessary decision to shut down trading for the rest of the day. TMX is committed to applying the lessons learned from this incident to help us prevent such issues from recurring in the future.”

Update, 2018-4-28:

HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.2185 % 2,925.1
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.2185 % 5,367.4
Floater 3.42 % 3.67 % 89,971 18.14 4 1.2185 % 3,093.3
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2065 % 3,155.2
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.68 % 75,317 5.07 5 0.2065 % 3,768.0
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2065 % 2,939.9
Perpetual-Premium 5.57 % -2.43 % 78,127 0.09 11 0.1404 % 2,868.6
Perpetual-Discount 5.41 % 5.43 % 68,263 14.77 24 0.0879 % 2,937.7
FixedReset 4.32 % 4.79 % 162,930 5.71 104 0.1862 % 2,511.3
Deemed-Retractible 5.15 % 5.62 % 86,558 5.63 28 0.1749 % 2,941.5
FloatingReset 3.07 % 3.25 % 33,635 3.56 11 0.2261 % 2,759.5
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
BAM.PR.B Floater 1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.59
Evaluated at bid price : 16.59
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %
TD.PF.F Perpetual-Discount 1.16 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 23.97
Evaluated at bid price : 24.39
Bid-YTW : 5.03 %
BAM.PR.K Floater 1.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.57
Evaluated at bid price : 16.57
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %
PWF.PR.Q FloatingReset 1.54 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 21.15
Evaluated at bid price : 21.15
Bid-YTW : 3.29 %
PWF.PR.A Floater 1.55 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 20.90
Evaluated at bid price : 20.90
Bid-YTW : 2.88 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset 3.57 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 17.99
Evaluated at bid price : 17.99
Bid-YTW : 5.17 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
TD.PF.G FixedReset 83,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.30
Bid-YTW : 3.66 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset 82,210 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 17.99
Evaluated at bid price : 17.99
Bid-YTW : 5.17 %
TD.PF.J FixedReset 71,084 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2023-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.27
Bid-YTW : 4.60 %
TRP.PR.J FixedReset 69,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.37
Bid-YTW : 3.92 %
BNS.PR.G FixedReset 61,315 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-07-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.31
Bid-YTW : 3.79 %
BAM.PR.Z FixedReset 60,600 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 24.30
Bid-YTW : 5.13 %
There were 14 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
BMO.PR.T FixedReset Quote: 22.79 – 23.07
Spot Rate : 0.2800
Average : 0.1718

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 22.37
Evaluated at bid price : 22.79
Bid-YTW : 4.85 %

BAM.PR.C Floater Quote: 16.55 – 16.85
Spot Rate : 0.3000
Average : 0.1938

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.55
Evaluated at bid price : 16.55
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %

BNS.PR.A FloatingReset Quote: 24.99 – 25.25
Spot Rate : 0.2600
Average : 0.1674

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2022-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.99
Bid-YTW : 3.25 %

BAM.PR.K Floater Quote: 16.57 – 16.81
Spot Rate : 0.2400
Average : 0.1645

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.57
Evaluated at bid price : 16.57
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %

TRP.PR.H FloatingReset Quote: 16.45 – 16.75
Spot Rate : 0.3000
Average : 0.2333

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.45
Evaluated at bid price : 16.45
Bid-YTW : 3.78 %

BMO.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount Quote: 24.79 – 24.95
Spot Rate : 0.1600
Average : 0.1237

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 24.33
Evaluated at bid price : 24.79
Bid-YTW : 5.10 %

April 26, 2018

Thursday, April 26th, 2018
HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -1.5662 % 2,889.9
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -1.5662 % 5,302.8
Floater 3.46 % 3.70 % 90,737 18.06 4 -1.5662 % 3,056.0
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0952 % 3,148.7
SplitShare 4.62 % 4.73 % 78,435 5.08 5 -0.0952 % 3,760.2
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0952 % 2,933.9
Perpetual-Premium 5.58 % -0.62 % 79,192 0.09 11 -0.0144 % 2,864.6
Perpetual-Discount 5.42 % 5.43 % 68,724 14.76 24 -0.1076 % 2,935.1
FixedReset 4.33 % 4.82 % 162,141 5.72 104 0.1837 % 2,506.7
Deemed-Retractible 5.16 % 5.69 % 87,486 5.63 28 0.0437 % 2,936.4
FloatingReset 3.08 % 3.25 % 32,319 3.56 11 -0.0444 % 2,753.3
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
BAM.PR.K Floater -2.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 16.34
Evaluated at bid price : 16.34
Bid-YTW : 3.72 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset -2.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 17.37
Evaluated at bid price : 17.37
Bid-YTW : 5.34 %
BAM.PR.C Floater -1.85 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 16.42
Evaluated at bid price : 16.42
Bid-YTW : 3.70 %
BAM.PR.B Floater -1.62 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 16.42
Evaluated at bid price : 16.42
Bid-YTW : 3.70 %
W.PR.M FixedReset -1.37 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-10-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.20
Bid-YTW : 5.03 %
PWF.PR.Q FloatingReset -1.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 20.83
Evaluated at bid price : 20.83
Bid-YTW : 3.34 %
IFC.PR.A FixedReset 1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.79
Bid-YTW : 7.61 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
TRP.PR.K FixedReset 182,788 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.99
Bid-YTW : 4.07 %
TRP.PR.J FixedReset 128,579 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.40
Bid-YTW : 3.88 %
TRP.PR.F FloatingReset 96,871 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 19.52
Evaluated at bid price : 19.52
Bid-YTW : 4.01 %
CM.PR.R FixedReset 77,909 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-07-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %
MFC.PR.R FixedReset 65,119 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-03-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.10
Bid-YTW : 3.78 %
HSE.PR.G FixedReset 60,700 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2020-06-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.01
Bid-YTW : 4.76 %
There were 15 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
BAM.PR.X FixedReset Quote: 17.37 – 17.95
Spot Rate : 0.5800
Average : 0.3582

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 17.37
Evaluated at bid price : 17.37
Bid-YTW : 5.34 %

MFC.PR.L FixedReset Quote: 22.74 – 23.07
Spot Rate : 0.3300
Average : 0.2117

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.74
Bid-YTW : 6.00 %

IAG.PR.A Deemed-Retractible Quote: 21.83 – 22.24
Spot Rate : 0.4100
Average : 0.2955

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 21.83
Bid-YTW : 7.09 %

TD.PF.D FixedReset Quote: 24.11 – 24.40
Spot Rate : 0.2900
Average : 0.1803

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 23.15
Evaluated at bid price : 24.11
Bid-YTW : 4.92 %

BAM.PF.E FixedReset Quote: 22.89 – 23.20
Spot Rate : 0.3100
Average : 0.2055

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-26
Maturity Price : 22.56
Evaluated at bid price : 22.89
Bid-YTW : 5.15 %

CCS.PR.C Deemed-Retractible Quote: 23.00 – 23.62
Spot Rate : 0.6200
Average : 0.5195

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.00
Bid-YTW : 6.59 %

New Issue: Global Dividend Growth Split Begins Marketting

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

Brompton Group has announced:

Brompton Funds Limited (the “Manager”) is pleased to announce that Global Dividend Growth Split Corp. (the “Company”) has filed a preliminary prospectus dated April 24, 2018 in respect of an initial public offering of preferred shares and class A shares (the “Preliminary Prospectus”).

The Company will invest in a diversified portfolio (the “Portfolio”) of equity securities of large capitalization global dividend growth companies selected by the Manager. In order to qualify for inclusion in the Portfolio, at the time of investment and at the time of each periodic reconstitution and/or rebalancing of the Portfolio, each global dividend growth company included in the Portfolio must (i) have a market capitalization of at least US$10 billion; and (ii) have a history of dividend growth or, in the Manager’s view, have high potential for future dividend growth.

The Manager expects that at least 20 global dividend growth companies will comprise the Portfolio. The indicative portfolio includes: Airbus SE, Apple Inc., AstraZeneca plc, BCE Inc., Carnival Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Deutsche Post AG, Enbridge Inc., HSBC Holdings plc, Intel Corporation, IBM Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Manulife Financial Corporation, Novartis AG, Pfizer Inc., Proctor & Gamble Co., Sanofi SA, Siemens AG, Sun Life Financial Inc., TELUS Corporation, Texas Instruments Inc., Toronto-Dominion Bank, UBS Group AG, and Vinci SA.

The class A shares will be offered at a price of $12.00 per share. The investment objectives for the class A shares are to provide holders with regular monthly non-cumulative cash distributions and the opportunity for capital appreciation through exposure to the Portfolio. The monthly cash distribution is targeted to be $0.10 per class A share representing a yield on the issue price of the class A shares of 10.0% per annum.

The preferred shares will be offered at a price of $10.00 per share. The investment objectives for the preferred shares are to provide holders with fixed cumulative preferential quarterly cash distributions and to return the original issue price of $10.00 to holders on June 30, 2021, subject to extension for successive terms of up to five years as determined by the board of directors of the Company. The quarterly cash distribution will be $0.1250 per preferred share ($0.50 per annum, or 5.0% per annum on the issue price of $10.00 per preferred share), until June 30, 2021. The preferred shares have been provisionally rated Pfd-3 (high) by DBRS Limited.

Prospective purchasers investing in the Company will have the option of paying for shares in cash or by an exchange of freely-tradable listed securities of any eligible issuers listed in the Preliminary Prospectus (the “Exchange Option”). Prospective purchasers who utilize the Exchange Option are required to deposit their securities of exchange eligible issuers by no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on May 24, 2018 through CDS. Please contact your investment advisor or refer to the Preliminary Prospectus for detailed information on how to participate in the offering by way of either cash purchase or the exchange option.

Brompton Funds Limited will act as the manager and portfolio manager of the Company. The Manager currently manages five split share corporations with combined assets of over $1.3 billion.

The syndicate of agents for the offering is being led by RBC Capital Markets, CIBC Capital Markets, National Bank Financial Inc. and Scotiabank and includes BMO Capital Markets, TD Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., GMP Securities L.P., Raymond James Ltd., Echelon Wealth Partners., Industrial Alliance Securities Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., and Mackie Research Capital Corporation.

This follows yesterday’s announcement of a provisional Pfd-3(high) rating from DBRS.

April 25, 2018

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018

The recently appointed SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr. (a Trump appointee), had some interesting things to say about The Middle-Market IPO Tax:

A lot has changed since 1999: I was humbled by the dot-com crash, advised the Treasury during the financial crisis, and became a law professor. And in the two decades since I left Wall Street, our markets have been transformed by technology. Today stocks trade with dizzying speed and our markets move faster than ever.

But some things have remained the same. You see, when I was a banker, we charged a standard fee for a middle-market IPO: seven percent. We would negotiate a reduced price for large, high-profile companies, where the client’s bargaining power produced a better deal. But for middle-market companies, our fee was always seven percent. Whatever industry the company was in, whatever its growth profile, however qualified its management team was, if they were a smaller firm, they always paid seven percent.[4]

Back in 1999, I assumed that technology and competition would eventually lead bankers to give middle-market companies better pricing on IPOs. That’s why, when I arrived at the SEC, I asked my team to dig into the data to see how middle-market IPO pricing has changed. We’ll get into what we found in a moment. But the short version is that nothing has changed: middle-market entrepreneurs still have to pay 7% of what they’ve created to access our public markets.

As the figure below shows, from 2001 through 2016, we found that over 96% of midsized IPOs featured a spread of exactly 7%:[14]

From 1975 to 1991, one out of two U.S. public companies were worth less than $100 million in inflation-adjusted dollars. But public companies of that size are vanishing: today that fraction is less than one in four.[20]

Today, private markets provide a much more competitive alternative. Those markets are larger and more robust than ever—and can support a company’s growth well into the later stages of its life.[22] In short, when public markets were the only game in town, companies were more willing to pay the IPO tax. Today, that tax can lead many middle-market companies to choose to stay private—with significant implications for the broader economy.

But for two reasons I think the middle-market IPO tax poses real risks for our economic future. First, it’s bad for smaller companies because it puts them at a significant disadvantage. Without a realistic alternative to private capital, middle-market firms can be forced to accept less favorable terms when raising money. If we reduce the 7% middle-market IPO tax, private capital providers will face increased competition from public markets—improving financing terms for middle-market businesses.

Second, the middle-market IPO tax is bad for ordinary investors. When the tax causes our most exciting young companies to raise private capital rather than go public, retail investors are left out of a significant part of the Nation’s economic growth.

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PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.43%, equivalent to 7.06% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield a little over 4.0%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now about 305bp, a slight (and perhaps spurious) narrowing from the 310bp reported April 18.

HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.6727 % 2,935.9
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.6727 % 5,387.2
Floater 3.41 % 3.63 % 91,646 18.22 4 -0.6727 % 3,104.7
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0159 % 3,151.7
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.60 % 78,813 5.08 5 0.0159 % 3,763.8
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0159 % 2,936.7
Perpetual-Premium 5.58 % -2.25 % 80,044 0.09 11 -0.1330 % 2,865.0
Perpetual-Discount 5.41 % 5.43 % 69,505 14.76 24 -0.0663 % 2,938.2
FixedReset 4.34 % 4.84 % 163,492 5.72 104 -0.1389 % 2,502.1
Deemed-Retractible 5.16 % 5.75 % 88,215 5.63 28 -0.0166 % 2,935.1
FloatingReset 3.08 % 2.95 % 31,802 3.57 11 -0.0847 % 2,754.5
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
IFC.PR.A FixedReset -1.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.55
Bid-YTW : 7.82 %
TRP.PR.H FloatingReset -1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 16.39
Evaluated at bid price : 16.39
Bid-YTW : 3.79 %
GWO.PR.T Deemed-Retractible -1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.30
Bid-YTW : 5.75 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
CM.PR.R FixedReset 504,170 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-07-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.97
Bid-YTW : 4.44 %
MFC.PR.H FixedReset 149,300 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-03-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.07
Bid-YTW : 5.36 %
CM.PR.S FixedReset 117,035 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 22.92
Evaluated at bid price : 24.31
Bid-YTW : 4.65 %
SLF.PR.I FixedReset 100,653 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.74
Bid-YTW : 5.25 %
TD.PF.B FixedReset 83,067 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 21.94
Evaluated at bid price : 22.51
Bid-YTW : 4.86 %
TRP.PR.J FixedReset 64,550 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.35
Bid-YTW : 3.94 %
There were 24 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MFC.PR.M FixedReset Quote: 22.90 – 23.28
Spot Rate : 0.3800
Average : 0.2421

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.90
Bid-YTW : 6.00 %

RY.PR.M FixedReset Quote: 23.71 – 24.05
Spot Rate : 0.3400
Average : 0.2273

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 22.90
Evaluated at bid price : 23.71
Bid-YTW : 4.83 %

CM.PR.O FixedReset Quote: 22.69 – 22.94
Spot Rate : 0.2500
Average : 0.1622

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 22.27
Evaluated at bid price : 22.69
Bid-YTW : 4.89 %

TRP.PR.D FixedReset Quote: 22.15 – 22.40
Spot Rate : 0.2500
Average : 0.1623

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 21.71
Evaluated at bid price : 22.15
Bid-YTW : 5.10 %

BAM.PR.B Floater Quote: 16.69 – 16.98
Spot Rate : 0.2900
Average : 0.2092

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 16.69
Evaluated at bid price : 16.69
Bid-YTW : 3.64 %

TRP.PR.F FloatingReset Quote: 19.40 – 19.69
Spot Rate : 0.2900
Average : 0.2132

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-25
Maturity Price : 19.40
Evaluated at bid price : 19.40
Bid-YTW : 4.04 %

DBRS: Canadian Banks’ Trends Now Stable on Bail-In Approval

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018

DBRS has announced that it has:

changed the trend to Stable from Negative on the Long-Term Issuer Ratings, Senior Debt Ratings and Deposits ratings of the Bank of Montreal, The Bank of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the National Bank of Canada. These actions result from the publication by the Minister of Finance of the final rules related to the Bank Recapitalization Regime (the Bail-in Regime). DBRS notes that the Stable trends on the long-term ratings of The Toronto-Dominion Bank and Royal Bank of Canada were unaffected. For these domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) to which the Bail-in Regime is applicable, DBRS has created a new obligation named Bail-inable Senior Debt. This new obligation rating reflects the senior debt that these banks will begin issuing once the Bail-in Regime goes into effect on September 23, 2018. Lastly, DBRS has downgraded the legacy Subordinated Debt ratings of these D-SIBs by one notch.

The revision of the trend to Stable from Negative for the affected long-term ratings reflects DBRS’s view that a downgrade of existing senior debt for the D-SIBs is now unlikely. It is anticipated that systemic support would still be sufficient to add a notch for such support until the D-SIBs issue adequate amounts of Bail-inable Senior Debt to meet their total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements. Once an adequate level of bail-inable debt has been issued, the likelihood of future systemic support would be much lower. Accordingly, the notch of support would then be withdrawn. However, the new Bail-inable Senior Debt creates an additional buffer that better protects all senior obligations that cannot be bailed in under the regulation. Therefore, DBRS does not expect to downgrade any long-term ratings of existing senior obligations of the D-SIBs.

When issued, DBRS will rate the new Bail-inable Senior Debt at the level of each bank’s Intrinsic Assessment (IA), reflecting the risk of a D-SIB being put into resolution.

The downgrades of the legacy Subordinated Debt ratings reflect the structural subordination to the Bail-inable Senior Debt.

This has been telegraphed for a long, long time:

New Split Share Corp. from Brompton?

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018

DBRS has announced that it:

assigned a provisional rating of Pfd-3 (high) to the Preferred Shares to be issued by Global Dividend Growth Split Corp. (the Company). The Company will issue an equal number of Preferred Shares and Class A Shares at an issue price of $10.00 per Preferred Share and $12.00 per Class A Share. The Preferred Shares will be scheduled to mature on June 30, 2021.

Net proceeds from the offering will be used to invest in a portfolio of equity securities of large capitalization global dividend growth companies (the Portfolio).

A search of SEDAR reveals the following documents:

Global Dividend Growth Split Corp. Apr 25 2018 10:33:25 ET Decision Document (Preliminary) PDF 70 K

Global Dividend Growth Split Corp. Apr 24 2018 20:54:40 ET Preliminary long form prospectus – English PDF 871 K

Global Dividend Growth Split Corp. Apr 24 2018 20:54:40 ET Preliminary long form prospectus – French PDF 898 K

As usual, I am not permitted to link directly to these public documents as the Canadian Securities Administrators would prefer that you buy a GIC instead.

April 24, 2018

Tuesday, April 24th, 2018

There was a a bit of a milestone passed today in the Treasury market:

Stocks tumbled as a rout in the shares of industrial and technology companies sent indexes spiraling lower amid a raft of earnings and renewed selling in the bull market’s biggest winners. The 10-year Treasury yield pierced 3 percent for the first time in four years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for a fifth day, the longest losing streak since March 2017. The sell off accelerated after industrial bellwether Caterpillar Inc. said that the first quarter was its “high water mark” for the year. The Nasdaq 100 Index slumped 2.1 percent, with Alphabet Inc.’s rise in capital spending sending its shares lower 4.5 percent.

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HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1539 % 2,955.8
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1539 % 5,423.7
Floater 3.38 % 3.60 % 91,675 18.29 4 -0.1539 % 3,125.7
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0793 % 3,151.2
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.55 % 79,495 5.09 5 -0.0793 % 3,763.2
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0793 % 2,936.2
Perpetual-Premium 5.57 % -5.35 % 77,329 0.09 11 -0.0415 % 2,868.8
Perpetual-Discount 5.41 % 5.44 % 69,984 14.77 24 -0.1032 % 2,940.2
FixedReset 4.32 % 4.80 % 165,080 5.63 104 -0.1290 % 2,505.6
Deemed-Retractible 5.16 % 5.64 % 89,247 5.63 28 -0.0199 % 2,935.6
FloatingReset 3.08 % 3.03 % 30,478 3.57 11 -0.0040 % 2,756.8
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
IFC.PR.C FixedReset -1.35 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.60
Bid-YTW : 5.84 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
TRP.PR.C FixedReset 152,940 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-24
Maturity Price : 17.36
Evaluated at bid price : 17.36
Bid-YTW : 5.05 %
TRP.PR.J FixedReset 107,215 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.35
Bid-YTW : 3.94 %
PWF.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount 86,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-24
Maturity Price : 23.50
Evaluated at bid price : 23.84
Bid-YTW : 5.41 %
IAG.PR.I FixedReset 61,780 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2023-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.15
Bid-YTW : 4.86 %
RY.PR.A Deemed-Retractible 60,123 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-05-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 0.00 %
VNR.PR.A FixedReset 35,700 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-24
Maturity Price : 23.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.45
Bid-YTW : 4.95 %
There were 18 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
TRP.PR.E FixedReset Quote: 21.85 – 22.16
Spot Rate : 0.3100
Average : 0.2048

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-24
Maturity Price : 21.49
Evaluated at bid price : 21.85
Bid-YTW : 5.15 %

PWF.PR.R Perpetual-Premium Quote: 25.07 – 25.33
Spot Rate : 0.2600
Average : 0.1720

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.07
Bid-YTW : 5.40 %

BAM.PF.I FixedReset Quote: 25.70 – 25.94
Spot Rate : 0.2400
Average : 0.1675

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.70
Bid-YTW : 4.13 %

IFC.PR.C FixedReset Quote: 22.60 – 22.87
Spot Rate : 0.2700
Average : 0.1985

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.60
Bid-YTW : 5.84 %

CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount Quote: 21.30 – 21.51
Spot Rate : 0.2100
Average : 0.1402

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-24
Maturity Price : 21.30
Evaluated at bid price : 21.30
Bid-YTW : 5.37 %

PVS.PR.F SplitShare Quote: 25.05 – 25.24
Spot Rate : 0.1900
Average : 0.1273

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2024-09-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.05
Bid-YTW : 4.90 %

April 23, 2018

Monday, April 23rd, 2018
HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.3381 % 2,960.3
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.3381 % 5,432.1
Floater 3.38 % 3.60 % 94,896 18.30 4 0.3381 % 3,130.5
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.3102 % 3,153.7
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.55 % 79,410 5.09 5 0.3102 % 3,766.2
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.3102 % 2,938.5
Perpetual-Premium 5.56 % -5.07 % 76,983 0.09 11 -0.0179 % 2,870.0
Perpetual-Discount 5.39 % 5.44 % 65,986 14.76 24 0.0286 % 2,943.2
FixedReset 4.31 % 4.80 % 165,582 4.43 104 0.2195 % 2,508.8
Deemed-Retractible 5.14 % 5.65 % 88,752 5.64 28 0.0918 % 2,936.2
FloatingReset 3.08 % 2.98 % 31,735 3.57 11 -0.0121 % 2,756.9
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
TRP.PR.F FloatingReset -1.42 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 19.46
Evaluated at bid price : 19.46
Bid-YTW : 4.03 %
PWF.PR.T FixedReset -1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 22.98
Evaluated at bid price : 23.61
Bid-YTW : 4.77 %
IFC.PR.A FixedReset 1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.80
Bid-YTW : 7.59 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset 1.31 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 17.85
Evaluated at bid price : 17.85
Bid-YTW : 5.20 %
BIP.PR.B FixedReset 1.31 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2020-12-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.48
Bid-YTW : 4.89 %
PWF.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount 1.61 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 23.59
Evaluated at bid price : 23.93
Bid-YTW : 5.39 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
TRP.PR.J FixedReset 187,050 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.35
Bid-YTW : 3.95 %
MFC.PR.O FixedReset 107,307 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-06-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.50
Bid-YTW : 3.77 %
TRP.PR.K FixedReset 107,005 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.97
Bid-YTW : 4.09 %
TD.PF.J FixedReset 104,728 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2023-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.36
Bid-YTW : 4.51 %
MFC.PR.M FixedReset 102,900 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.09
Bid-YTW : 5.85 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset 80,134 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 16.47
Evaluated at bid price : 16.47
Bid-YTW : 5.05 %
There were 17 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
TRP.PR.H FloatingReset Quote: 16.52 – 17.00
Spot Rate : 0.4800
Average : 0.3659

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 16.52
Evaluated at bid price : 16.52
Bid-YTW : 3.76 %

W.PR.H Perpetual-Discount Quote: 24.50 – 24.75
Spot Rate : 0.2500
Average : 0.1789

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 24.21
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 5.64 %

GWO.PR.Q Deemed-Retractible Quote: 24.21 – 24.48
Spot Rate : 0.2700
Average : 0.2032

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.21
Bid-YTW : 5.81 %

MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Quote: 25.00 – 25.25
Spot Rate : 0.2500
Average : 0.1907

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 4.87 %

TRP.PR.F FloatingReset Quote: 19.46 – 19.67
Spot Rate : 0.2100
Average : 0.1606

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-23
Maturity Price : 19.46
Evaluated at bid price : 19.46
Bid-YTW : 4.03 %

EIT.PR.A SplitShare Quote: 25.48 – 25.74
Spot Rate : 0.2600
Average : 0.2131

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Soft Maturity
Maturity Date : 2024-03-14
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.48
Bid-YTW : 4.55 %