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MAPF Performance : February, 2021

Sunday, February 28th, 2021

Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund’s Net Asset Value per Unit as of the close February 26, 2021, was $9.4553.

Five issues held throughout the month returned between 0% and 1%: BMO.PR.Q, CU.PR.G, BNS.PR.H, FTN.PR.A and INE.PR.A, with a total weight in the portfolio (at month-end) of 14.1%. Star performers were SLF.PR.G, TRP.PR.B and IFC.PR.A, returning between 15% and 20%, with a total portfolio weight of 8.2%.

Insurance issues received a boost this month with the announcement of Manulife LRCNs (additional commentary February 11.

Quote quality was poor this month, with the difference in portfolio values when calculated with closing prices vs. calculation with bid prices increasing from 0.52% to 1.19%.

Returns to February 26, 2021
Period MAPF TXPR*
Total Return
CPD – according to Blackrock
One Month +8.19% +4.21% N/A
Three Months +19.41% +9.47% N/A
One Year +33.20% +17.37% +16.63%
Two Years (annualized) +10.75% +7.52% N/A
Three Years (annualized) +2.18% +2.46% +1.81%
Four Years (annualized) +5.92% +3.85% N/A
Five Years (annualized) +12.06% +8.76% +8.19%
Six Years (annualized) +4.33% +2.64% N/A
Seven Years (annualized) +4.11% +2.30% N/A
Eight Years (annualized) +3.34% +1.74% N/A
Nine Years (annualized) +3.87% +2.11% N/A
Ten Years (annualized) +3.75% +2.44% +1.95%
Eleven Years (annualized) +5.17% +3.10%  
Twelve Years (annualized) +8.56% +4.71%  
Thirteen Years (annualized) +7.86% +2.86%  
Fourteen Years (annualized) +7.54%    
Fifteen Years (annualized) +7.48%    
Sixteen Years (annualized) +7.37%    
Seventeen Years (annualized) +7.48%    
Eighteen Years (annualized) +8.64%    
Nineteen Years (annualized) +8.22%    
MAPF returns assume reinvestment of distributions, and are shown after expenses but before fees.
The BMO Capital Markets “50” Preferred Share Index is no longer being calculated. The final performance report incorporating this venerable index was published as of December, 2020.
“TXPR” is the S&P/TSX Preferred Share Index. It is calculated without accounting for fees, but does assume reinvestment of dividends.
CPD Returns are for the NAV and are after all fees and expenses. Reinvestment of dividends is assumed.
Figures for National Bank Preferred Equity Income Fund (formerly Omega Preferred Equity) (which are after all fees and expenses) for 1-, 3- and 12-months are +6.09%, +12.77% and +21.74%, respectively, according to Globe & Mail / Fundata after all fees & expenses. Three year performance is +3.93%; five year is +8.97%; ten year is +3.31%

Figures from Morningstar are no longer conveniently available.

Manulife Preferred Income Class Adv has been terminated by Manulife. The performance of this fund was last reported here in March, 2018.
Figures for Horizons Active Preferred Share ETF (HPR) (which are after all fees and expenses) for 1-, 3- and 12-months are +5.46%, +12.73% & +21.07%, respectively. Three year performance is +1.73%, five-year is +8.68%
Figures for National Bank Preferred Equity Fund (formerly Altamira Preferred Equity Fund) are +5.61%, +13.03% and +21.67% for one-, three- and twelve months, respectively. Three year performance is +1.99%; five-year is +8.97%.

Acccording to the fund’s fact sheet as of June 30, 2016, the fund’s inception date was October 30, 2015. I do not know how they justify this nonsensical statement, but will assume that prior performance is being suppressed in some perfectly legal manner that somebody at National considers ethical.

The last time Altamira Preferred Equity Fund’s performance was reported here was April, 2014; performance under the National Bank banner was first reported here May, 2014.

The figures for the NAV of BMO S&P/TSX Laddered Preferred Share Index ETF (ZPR) is +20.82% for the past twelve months. Two year performance is +7.71%, three year is +1.89%, five year is +9.62%.
Figures for Fiera Canadian Preferred Share Class Cg Series F, (formerly Natixis Canadian Preferred Share Class Series F) (formerly NexGen Canadian Preferred Share Tax Managed Fund) are no longer available as the Fund is now the property of Canoe Financial. The last reported performance for the merged fund was May 2020.
Figures for BMO Preferred Share Fund (advisor series) according to BMO are +4.02%, +9.38% and +18.04% for the past one-, three- and twelve-months, respectively. Two year performance is +5.47%; three year is -0.14%; five-year is +5.75%.
Figures for PowerShares Canadian Preferred Share Index Class, Series F (PPS) are +18.40% for the past twelve months. The three-year figure is +1.64%; five years is +8.89%
Figures for the First Asset Preferred Share Investment Trust (PSF.UN) are no longer available since the fund has merged with First Asset Preferred Share ETF (FPR).

Performance for the fund was last reported here in September, 2016; the first report of unavailability was in October, 2016.

Figures for Lysander-Slater Preferred Share Dividend Fund (Class F) according to the company are +6.72%, +15.04% and +16.17% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Three year performance is -0.08%, five-year is +6.07%.
Figures for the Desjardins Canadian Preferred Share Fund A Class (A Class), as reported by the company are +4.10%, +9.41% and +16.34% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Two year performance is +5.64%, three-year is +0.35%
Figures for the RBC Canadian Preferred Share ETF (RPF) as reported by Morningstar are +5.49%, +12.78% and +21.14% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Three-year performance is +1.31%

MAPF returns assume reinvestment of dividends, and are shown after expenses but before fees. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. You can lose money investing in Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund or any other fund. For more information, see the fund’s main page. The fund is available directly from Hymas Investment Management.

The preferred share market continues to be underpriced relative to other capital markets, leaving a lot of room for outsized gains. The Seniority Spread (the interest-equivalent yield on reasonably liquid, investment-grade PerpetualDiscounts less the yield on long term corporate bonds) is extremely elevated (chart end-date 2021-2-12):

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Note that the Seniority Spread was recorded at 330bp just before month-end, significantly narrower than the 355bp on February 3. As a good practical example of the spreads between markets, consider that CIU issued a long-term bond in early September, 2019 yielding 2.963%, about 411bp cheaper than the interest-equivalent figure of 7.07% for CIU.PR.A, which was then yielding about 5.44% as a dividend. CIU issued another bond in late September, 2020, yielding 2.609%, which was 399bp cheaper than the interest-equivalent figure of 6.60% for CIU.

… and the relationship between five-year Canada yields and yields on investment-grade FixedResets is still deep in ‘decoupled panic’ territory (chart end-date 2021-2-12):

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In addition, I feel that the yield on five-year Canadas is unsustainably low (it should be the inflation rate plus an increment of … 1%? 1.5%? 2.0%?),and a return to sustainable levels is likely over the medium term.

It seems clear that many market players are, wittingly or not, using FixedResets to speculate on future moves in the Canada 5-Year yield. This is excellent news for those who take market action based on fundamentals and the long term characteristics of the market because nobody can consistently time the markets. The speculators will, over the long run and in aggregate, lose money, handing it over to more sober investors.

In this connection, it is useful to review some recent commentary regarding the preferred share market. Rob Carrick recently published a column with the title Rob Carrick: Does it make sense to use preferred shares as a bond substitute?, in which he gave a nod to the old shibboleth:

But does it truly make sense to substitute prefs for bonds? Not if you subscribe to the idea that the main point of bonds is not to generate income and returns, but rather to act as a portfolio life preserver when the stock market turns ugly.

… but then noted the crucial point:

Perpetuals are somewhat less touchy, but they’re not to be counted on in a stock market crash.

This distinction is meaningless to investors who are all about income and fine with portfolios that bounce around in price.

As I never get tired of repeating, Fixed Income portfolio management is a process that largely consists of balancing Security of Income vs. Security of Principal. These are opposing forces; the more you have of one, the less you’ll have of the other. And preferred shares are way, way over to the “security of income” pole. So in bad times … Shut up and Clip Your Coupons!

Financial Wisdom Forum’s long-running thread on preferred shares recently featured a series of posts which often deprecated preferred shares with some participants advocating market timing:

The thing about prefs is that timing is everything. You buy them when they’re being thrown out with the bathwater and you’ll be golden.

Yes, there’s money to be made, but only if the shares are in the order of a 30% discount.

If you care about total return, preferred shares probably aren’t for you, (unless of course you are interested in trading them or you have a crystal ball regarding interest rates).

If you want something that pays a decent, tax efficient dividend, in a non-registered account, and share price isn’t important, then straight perpetual preferred shares are probably fine (caveat for a few years with respect to NVCC – will no longer qualify as Tier 1 Capital post 2022). Suitable for the retired. Anything else – not so much. They all seem to favour the issuer.

Sure the market value is volatile but I don’t plan on selling so it doesn’t matter to me, barring default.

The part I’d like to focus on is:

Yes, there’s money to be made, but only if the shares are in the order of a 30% discount.

This is close – but not quite – to stating an essential point about Fixed Income investing: total returns are asymmetrical: you can lose a lot more than you can win. This is why credit quality is so important – a bankruptcy, or even a mere impairment, is going to take you a long way down the ‘bad side’ of the asymmetrical probability curve. But another point, often ignored, is that this implies that discounted issues are, all else being equal, better investments than premium issues: in good times, discounted issues can win a lot more than premium issues, which are tethered to their par value due to considerations of maturity or possible redemption. In bad times, they’ll lose a little more, since discounted issues have no ‘buffer’ to insulate them, while premium issues (and, to a lesser extent, issues trading modestly below par) have such a buffer that absorbs a portion of the shock – this is easier to understand in terms option values and volatility theory, as the negative value of the embedded option is reduced as the issue moves further away from par.

The implication for MAPF is that there is a bias towards holding issues trading well away from par value, which almost always means discounted issues. It’s only a bias, not a hard and fast rule, but this bias was deliberately built into the system in order to reduce the asymmetry of the projected returns curve. This means that MAPF will usually hold a portfolio more heavily weighted towards low coupon – low priced issues than the index and be correspondingly underweighted in high coupon – high priced instruments.

This in turn has the effect of introducing a bias in returns: MAPF will often underperform in poor markets (as it holds fewer of the better performing high-coupon issues than the index) and outperform in good markets (as it holds fewer of the worse performing high-coupon issues than the index). This is only a tendency, not an iron-clad rule, but the effect is there and it means that MAPF has a higher Beta than it might otherwise have, if you enjoy thinking in terms of investment models from the last century. And at all times, of course, the fund seeks to trade and exploit market inefficiencies, which mitigates but does not eliminate the effect.

On another FWF forum, there has been speculation that the fine performance of FixedResets since March, 2020, has been due to a conscious focus on spreads:

ZPR was up approximately 6% for 2020. Is this a reversal of the trend to follow interest rates downward? Perhaps investors will focus on the spread between preferred versus bond yields going forward rather than an irrational rush to the exits whenever prefs are resetting at lower rates.

[reply] It’s already happening. That’s why ZPR has finally had a positive year in a declining rate environment.

Well, this is something I would like to agree with. I’ve been pounding the ‘spreads’ drum for a long time…

Unfortunately, while one can only rarely point to a single mechanism explaining a change in relative prices and say, with any credibility whatsoever, that A caused B, I have to admit I’m more dubious than usual about this claim. I believe that the continued rally is due to continued interest rate anticipation, which is now (for some investors) considered to be on the way up rather than continuing the downward staggering of the past ten years; this in turn is derived from Central Bank ‘easy money’ policies and very loose government fiscal policies; which is considered to be on the verge of driving inflation upwards.

Who’s right? Well, we’ll know in ten years, at a time when half of the investing world will graciously explain at length how their uncanny ability to read global market forces allowed them to time the market and make enormous profits, while the other half will tell you the question is irrelevant because investing is about the future, not the past. My advice is, as always, to make asset allocation decisions based on the long-term characteristics of each asset class and how these characteristics interact with your long-term portfolio objectives.

It should be noted that I have been unable to provide an entirely satisfactory explanation for the relatively strong performance of Floor issues during the 2018-19 downdraft relative to their non-Floor counterparts. See the discussions on PrefBlog at LINK, LINK and LINK.

I believe the bear-market outperformance by the Floor issues is a behavioural phenomenon with very little basis in fundamentals. When interest rates in general move, FixedReset prices should not change much (to a first approximation, for issues priced near par), since in Fixed Income investing it is spreads that are important, not absolute yields. There should be some effect on Floor issues, which should move up slightly in price as yields go down since the ‘option’ to receive the floor rate will become more valuable. Adjustments due to this effect should be fairly small, however – and over the past year issues with a floor, that started the period being expensive, have simply gotten even more expensive, relative to their non-floored counterparts.

And the tricky thing about behavioural models of investing is that they can lose their explanatory power very quickly when an investment fashion shifts, whereas fundamentals will always be effective – sometimes it just takes a little time! Just to give an example from the preferred share market – until the end of 2014, FixedResets were priced relative to each other according to their initial dividend; when the reset of TRP.PR.A shocked a lot of investors, relative pricing became much more dependent upon the Issue Reset Spread, a much more logical and fundamental property. This paradigm shift was discussed extensively in PrefLetter.

FixedReset (Discount) performance on the month was +6.50% vs. PerpetualDiscounts of +0.84% in February; the two classes finally decoupled in mid-November, 2018, after months of moving in lockstep:

HIMI_indexPerf_210226
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Floaters performed well, returning +10.03% for February and finally moving the trailing twelve months into positive territory at +17.65%. Look at the long-term performance:

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Some Assiduous Readers will be interested to observe that the ‘Quantitative Easing’ decline was not initially as bad as the ‘Credit Crunch’ decline, which took the sector down to the point where the 15-year cumulative total return was negative. I wrote about that at the time. but it became worse in August, 2019! On August 30, 2019 the HIMI Floater Index (total return) value was calculated as 1906.6; the index first surpassed this value on 2003-8-13. Thus, cumulative total return (that is, including dividends) was negative over a period of slightly-over sixteen years. Worse, on March 31, 2020, the index level was 1454.8, a milestone first passed on 1997-7-30; a cumulative negative total return for 22 years and 8 months; at its low on March 18 the index level was 1253.7, first surpassed on 1996-1-4, a span of 24 years and over two months!

It seems clear that Floaters are used, wittingly or otherwise, as a vehicle for speculation on the policy rate and Canada Prime, while FixedResets are being used as a vehicle for speculation on the five-year Canada rate. In support of this idea, I present an Implied Volatility analysis of the TRP series of FixedResets as of February 26, which is comprised of six issues without a Minimum Rate Guarantee and two issues which do have this feature:

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The two issues with floors, TRP.PR.J (+469, minimum 5.50%) and TRP.PR.K (+385, minimum 4.90%) are $0.48 cheap and $1.45 rich, respectively. These figures are much narrower than the 1.17 rich and 2.13 rich calculated with last month’s figures. The floors have become effective since five-year Canadas dipped below 0.81% and 1.05%, respectively – note that the floor on TRP.PR.J, which is no longer rich, is no longer assumed to be effective.

It will also be noted that the spread of a notional non-callable TRP FixedReset priced at par has narrowed from 376bp last month to 363bp this month, while GOC-5 has increased from 0.42% to 0.86%.

I also show results for the BAM series of FixedResets, which includes three issues with dividend floors: BAM.PF.H (+417, Minimum 5.00%); BAM.PF.I (+386, Minimum 4.80%); and BAM.PF.J (+310, Minimum 4.75%); these issues are all rich compared to their non-floor siblings, at 1.95, 1.96 and 1.94 respectively, very different from last month’s figures of cheap 1.29, cheap 1.79 and cheap 1.74. I note that it is normal for premium issues in a rising market to be cheap, since investors have an expectation for continued rising prices (and therefore an ‘automatic’ redemption), without considering the possibility of a market reversal, in which case the higher spreads will prove to be very useful.

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It will also be noted that the spread of a notional non-callable BAM FixedReset priced at par has narrowed significantly over the month; 397bp last month to 354bp this month, while GOC-5 has increased from 0.42% to 0.86%.

Relative performance during the month was correlated (53%) with Issue Reset Spreads for the “Pfd-2 Group” and for the “Pfd-3 Group” issues (32%):

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… with Pfd-2 Group correlation for the three-month period of 51% and 23% for Pfd-3:

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This suggests to me that November commenced an actual theme, one based on an expectation of higher government interest rates in the future (perhaps due to renewed hopes that the introduction of coronavirus vaccines will return things to normal) and that this theme has continued through February, finally replacing the uncorrelated messes we’ve seen through much of the market’s recovery since the end of March, 2020.

As for the future, of course, it’s one thing to say that ‘spreads are unsustainable and so are government yields’ and it’s quite another to forecast just how and when a more economically sustainable environment will take effect. It could be years. The same caution applies for an end to the overpricing of issues with a minimum rate guarantee.

Yields on preferred shares of all stripes are high compared to those available from other investments of similar quality. As I told John Heinzl in an eMail interview in late November, 2018, the best advice I can offer investors remains Shut up and clip your coupons!

I think that a broad, sustainable rally in FixedResets will require higher five-year Canada yields (or a widespread expectation of them), since paradigm shifts generally require a trigger (a Wile E. Coyote moment, as they say!) … and although I’m sure this will happen eventually, it would be foolish to speculate on just when it will happen.

Calculation of MAPF Sustainable Income Per Unit
Month NAVPU Portfolio
Average
YTW
Leverage
Divisor
Securities
Average
YTW
Capital
Gains
Multiplier
Sustainable
Income
per
current
Unit
June, 2007 9.3114 5.16% 1.03 5.01% 1.3240 0.3524
September 9.1489 5.35% 0.98 5.46% 1.3240 0.3773
December, 2007 9.0070 5.53% 0.942 5.87% 1.3240 0.3993
March, 2008 8.8512 6.17% 1.047 5.89% 1.3240 0.3938
June 8.3419 6.034% 0.952 6.338% 1.3240 $0.3993
September 8.1886 7.108% 0.969 7.335% 1.3240 $0.4537
December, 2008 8.0464 9.24% 1.008 9.166% 1.3240 $0.5571
March 2009 $8.8317 8.60% 0.995 8.802% 1.3240 $0.5872
June 10.9846 7.05% 0.999 7.057% 1.3240 $0.5855
September 12.3462 6.03% 0.998 6.042% 1.3240 $0.5634
December 2009 10.5662 5.74% 0.981 5.851% 1.1141 $0.5549
March 2010 10.2497 6.03% 0.992 6.079% 1.1141 $0.5593
June 10.5770 5.96% 0.996 5.984% 1.1141 $0.5681
September 11.3901 5.43% 0.980 5.540% 1.1141 $0.5664
December 2010 10.7659 5.37% 0.993 5.408% 1.0298 $0.5654
March, 2011 11.0560 6.00% 0.994 5.964% 1.0298 $0.6403
June 11.1194 5.87% 1.018 5.976% 1.0298 $0.6453
September 10.2709 6.10%
Note
1.001 6.106% 1.0298 $0.6090
December, 2011 10.0793 5.63%
Note
1.031 5.805% 1.0000 $0.5851
March, 2012 10.3944 5.13%
Note
0.996 5.109% 1.0000 $0.5310
June 10.2151 5.32%
Note
1.012 5.384% 1.0000 $0.5500
September 10.6703 4.61%
Note
0.997 4.624% 1.0000 $0.4934
December, 2012 10.8307 4.24% 0.989 4.287% 1.0000 $0.4643
March, 2013 10.9033 3.87% 0.996 3.886% 1.0000 $0.4237
June 10.3261 4.81% 0.998 4.80% 1.0000 $0.4957
September 10.0296 5.62% 0.996 5.643% 1.0000 $0.5660
December, 2013 9.8717 6.02% 1.008 5.972% 1.0000 $0.5895
March, 2014 10.2233 5.55% 0.998 5.561% 1.0000 $0.5685
June 10.5877 5.09% 0.998 5.100% 1.0000 $0.5395
September 10.4601 5.28% 0.997 5.296% 1.0000 $0.5540
December, 2014 10.5701 4.83% 1.009 4.787% 1.0000 $0.5060
March, 2015 9.9573 4.99% 1.001 4.985% 1.0000 $0.4964
June, 2015 9.4181 5.55% 1.002 5.539% 1.0000 $0.5217
September 7.8140 6.98% 0.999 6.987% 1.0000 $0.5460
December, 2015 8.1379 6.85% 0.997 6.871% 1.0000 $0.5592
March, 2016 7.4416 7.79% 0.998 7.805% 1.0000 $0.5808
June 7.6704 7.67% 1.011 7.587% 1.0000 $0.5819
September 8.0590 7.35% 0.993 7.402% 1.0000 $0.5965
December, 2016 8.5844 7.24% 0.990 7.313% 1.0000 $0.6278
March, 2017 9.3984 6.26% 0.994 6.298% 1.0000 $0.5919
June 9.5313 6.41% 0.998 6.423% 1.0000 $0.6122
September 9.7129 6.56% 0.998 6.573% 1.0000 $0.6384
December, 2017 10.0566 6.06% 1.004 6.036% 1.0000 $0.6070
March, 2018 10.2701 6.22% 1.007 6.177% 1.0000 $0.6344
June 10.2518 6.22% 0.995 6.251% 1.0000 $0.6408
September 10.2965 6.62% 1.018 6.503% 1.0000 $0.6696
December, 2018 8.6875 7.16% 0.997 7.182% 1.0000 $0.6240
March, 2019 8.4778 7.09% 1.007 7.041% 1.0000 $0.5969
June 8.0896 7.33% 0.996 7.359% 1.0000 $0.5953
September 7.7948 7.96% 0.998 7.976% 1.0000 $0.6217
December, 2019 8.0900 6.03% 0.995 6.060% 1.0000 $0.4903
March 5.5596 7.04% 1.006 6.998% 1.0000 $0.3891
June 6.3568 6.10% 0.9900 6.162% 1.0000 $0.3917
September 7.2852 5.32% 1.00 5.320% 1.0000 $0.3876
December, 2020 8.3947 4.46% 0.999 4.464% 1.0000 $0.3747
February, 2021 9.4553 4.57% 1.017 4.494% 1.0000 $0.4249
NAVPU is shown after quarterly distributions of dividend income and annual distribution of capital gains.
Portfolio YTW includes cash (or margin borrowing), with an assumed interest rate of 0.00%
The Leverage Divisor indicates the level of cash in the account: if the portfolio is 1% in cash, the Leverage Divisor will be 0.99
Securities YTW divides “Portfolio YTW” by the “Leverage Divisor” to show the average YTW on the securities held; this assumes that the cash is invested in (or raised from) all securities held, in proportion to their holdings.
The Capital Gains Multiplier adjusts for the effects of Capital Gains Dividends. On 2009-12-31, there was a capital gains distribution of $1.989262 which is assumed for this purpose to have been reinvested at the final price of $10.5662. Thus, a holder of one unit pre-distribution would have held 1.1883 units post-distribution; the CG Multiplier reflects this to make the time-series comparable. Note that Dividend Distributions are not assumed to be reinvested.
Sustainable Income is the resultant estimate of the fund’s dividend income per current unit, before fees and expenses. Note that a “current unit” includes reinvestment of prior capital gains; a unitholder would have had the calculated sustainable income with only, say, 0.9 units in the past which, with reinvestment of capital gains, would become 1.0 current units.
DeemedRetractibles are comprised of all Straight Perpetuals (both PerpetualDiscount and PerpetualPremium) issued by BMO, BNS, CM, ELF, GWO, HSB, IAG, MFC, NA, RY, SLF and TD, which are not exchangable into common at the option of the company or the regulator (definition refined in May, 2011). These issues are analyzed as if their prospectuses included a requirement to redeem at par on or prior to 2022-1-31 (banks) or the Deemed Maturity date for insurers and insurance holding companies (see below)), in addition to the call schedule explicitly defined. See the Deemed Retractible Review: September 2016 for the rationale behind this analysis.

The same reasoning is also applied to FixedResets from these issuers, other than explicitly defined NVCC from banks.

In November, 2019, the assumption of DeemedRetraction for insurance issues was cancelled in the wake of the IAIS decision included in ICS 2.0. This resulted in a large drop in the yield calculated for these issues

The Deemed Maturity date for insurers was set at 2022-1-31 at the commencement of the process in February, 2011. It was extended to 2025-1-31 in April, 2013 and to 2030-1-31 in December, 2018. In November, 2019, the assumption of DeemedRetraction was cancelled in the wake of the IAIS decision included in ICS 2.0.
Yields for September, 2011, to January, 2012, were calculated by imposing a cap of 10% on the yields of YLO issues held, in order to avoid their extremely high calculated yields distorting the calculation and to reflect the uncertainty in the marketplace that these yields will be realized. From February to September 2012, yields on these issues have been set to zero. All YLO issues held were sold in October 2012.

These calculations were performed assuming constant contemporary GOC-5 and 3-Month Bill rates, as follows:

Canada Yields Assumed in Calculations
Month-end GOC-5 3-Month Bill
September, 2015 0.78% 0.40%
December, 2015 0.71% 0.46%
March, 2016 0.70% 0.44%
June 0.57% 0.47%
September 0.58% 0.53%
December, 2016 1.16% 0.47%
March, 2017 1.08% 0.55%
June 1.35% 0.69%
September 1.79% 0.97%
December, 2017 1.83% 1.00%
March, 2018 2.06% 1.08%
June 1.95% 1.22%
September 2.33% 1.55%
December, 2018 1.88% 1.65%
March, 2019 1.46% 1.66%
June 1.34% 1.66%
September 1.41% 1.66%
December, 2019 1.68% 1.68%
March, 2020 0.57% 0.21%
June 0.37% 0.21%
September 0.35% 0.14%
December, 2020 0.42% 0.08%
February, 2021 0.86% 0.11%

I note that the sustainable yield calculated above is not directly comparable with any yield calculation currently reported by any other preferred share fund as far as I am aware. The Sustainable Yield depends on:
i) Calculating Yield-to-Worst for each instrument and using this yield for reporting purposes;
ii) Using the contemporary value of Five-Year Canadas to estimate dividends after reset for FixedResets. The assumption regarding the five-year Canada rate has become more important as the proportion of low-spread FixedResets in the portfolio has increased.
iii) Making the assumption that deeply discounted NVCC non-compliant issues from banks (and insurers, until November 2019), both Straight and FixedResets will be redeemed at par on their DeemedMaturity date as discussed above.

MAPF Portfolio Composition : February, 2021

Saturday, February 27th, 2021

Turnover jumped to 29% in February.

The fund’s trading will probably be higher in the future than has been normal for the past several years, since the extreme segmentation in the marketplace that I complained about for so long is now effectively ended. Low-Reset insurance issues were considered so cheap relative to their peers that a large portion of the fund’s holdings were effectively frozen. However, this differentiating factor is no longer considered applicable.

I am no longer making any adjustments for special qualities of insurance issues but note that this policy may change again in the future – a requirement for a Principal Loss Absorbency Mechanism (PLAM), whereby any security included in Tier 1 Capital will be wiped out prior to a government bail-out, even if technical bankruptcy is avoided, remains good public policy; it is a disgrace that the IAIS has rejected this principle and even worse that OSFI argued strenuously against it. I will continue to read notifications from these two entities with great interest, but while it is within the realm of possibility that ICS 2.0 will be revised following the expiry of the current five-year testing period, I can’t say I have any great confidence in the wisdom of the bureaucrats. However, it is a positive move that the increase in the limit for preferred share issuance was increased from 10% of the capital requirement to 15%; but this increase may only be met with issues having a PLAM.

Sectoral distribution of the MAPF portfolio on February 26 was as follows:

MAPF Sectoral Analysis 2021-2-26
HIMI Indices Sector Weighting YTW ModDur
Ratchet 0% N/A N/A
FixFloat 0% N/A N/A
Floater 0% N/A N/A
OpRet 0% N/A N/A
SplitShare 1.9% 4.33% 4.52
Interest Rearing 0% N/A N/A
PerpetualPremium 10.0% 5.20% 7.16
PerpetualDiscount 6.2% 4.75% 15.94
Fixed-Reset Discount 41.0% 4.24% 16.92
Insurance – Straight 0% N/A N/A
FloatingReset 0% N/A N/A
FixedReset Premium 1.8% 2.38% 0.89
FixedReset Bank non-NVCC 4.2% 1.92% 0.49
FixedReset Insurance non-NVCC 15.6% 3.84% 17.61
Scraps – Ratchet 1.2% 4.93% 18.39
Scraps – FixedFloater 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – Floater 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – OpRet 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – SplitShare 0.9% 4.81% 4.17
Scraps – PerpPrem 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – PerpDisc 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – FR Discount 18.8% 5.91% 14.11
Scraps – Insurance Straight 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – FloatingReset 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – FR Premium 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – Bank non-NVCC 0% N/A N/A
Scraps – Ins non-NVCC 0% N/A N/A
Cash -1.7% 0.00% 0.00
Total 100% 4.57% 14.43
Totals and changes will not add precisely due to rounding. Cash is included in totals with duration and yield both equal to zero.
The various “Scraps” indices include issues with a DBRS rating of Pfd-3(high) or lower and issues with an Average Trading Value (calculated with HIMIPref™ methodology, which is relatively complex) of less than $25,000. The issues considered “Scraps” are subdivided into indices which reflect those of the main indices.
DeemedRetractibles were comprised of all Straight Perpetuals (both PerpetualDiscount and PerpetualPremium) issued by BMO, BNS, CM, ELF, GWO, HSB, IAG, MFC, NA, RY, SLF and TD, which are not exchangable into common at the option of the company or the regulator. These issues are analyzed as if their prospectuses included a requirement to redeem at par on or prior to 2022-1-31 in the case of banks or normally in the case of insurers and insurance holding companies, in addition to the call schedule explicitly defined. See the Deemed Retractible Review: September 2016 for the rationale behind this analysis and IAIS Says No To DeemedRetractions for the recent change in policy with respect to insurers.

Note that the estimate for the time this will become effective for insurers and insurance holding companies was extended by three years in April 2013, due to the delays in OSFI’s providing clarity on the issue and by a further five years in December, 2018; the estimate was eliminated in November. However, the distinctions are being kept because it is useful to distinguish insurance issues from others.

The name of this subindex has been changed to "Insurance Straight" as of November, 2020

Calculations of resettable instruments are performed assuming a constant GOC-5 rate of 0.86%, a constant 3-Month Bill rate of 0.11% and a constant Canada Prime Rate of 2.45%

The “total” reflects the un-leveraged total portfolio (i.e., cash is included in the portfolio calculations and is deemed to have a duration and yield of 0.00.). MAPF will often have relatively large cash balances, both credit and debit, to facilitate trading. Figures presented in the table have been rounded to the indicated precision.

An additional wrinkle to the division into sub-indices is the fact that some issues are classed here as FixedResets, even though for analytical purposes they are classified as Straights – this is due to the fact that these particular issues reset with a floor rate which is (given the current level of the GOC 5-Year bond) currently expected to be effective.

For MAPF, this idiosyncracy is represented by ECN.PR.C, with a portfolio weight of 1.3%. The total portfolio is therefore 82% “Floating”, which means the rates will reset periodically based upon the GOC-5, T-Bill or Canada Prime levels.

Credit distribution is:

MAPF Credit Analysis 2021-2-26
DBRS Rating MAPF Weighting
Pfd-1 0
Pfd-1(low) 0
Pfd-2(high) 31.6%
Pfd-2 27.9%
Pfd-2(low) 21.2%
Pfd-3(high) 2.0%
Pfd-3 13.8%
Pfd-3(low) 2.1%
Pfd-4(high) 2.9%
Pfd-4 0%
Pfd-4(low) 0%
Pfd-5(high) 0%
Pfd-5 0%
Cash -1.7%
Totals will not add precisely due to rounding.
A position held in INE.PR.A is not rated by DBRS, but has been included as “Pfd-4(high)” in the above table on the basis of its S&P rating of P-4(high).

Liquidity Distribution is:

MAPF Liquidity Analysis 2021-2-26
Average Daily Trading MAPF Weighting
<$50,000 2.1%
$50,000 – $100,000 22.3%
$100,000 – $200,000 41.4%
$200,000 – $300,000 18.0%
>$300,000 17.9%
Cash -1.7%
Totals will not add precisely due to rounding.

The distribution of Issue Reset Spreads is:

Range MAPF Weight
<100bp 0%
100-149bp 9.2%
150-199bp 11.8%
200-249bp 11.6%
250-299bp 31.6%
300-349bp 2.9%
350-399bp 10.2%
400-449bp 2.8%
450-499bp 0.0%
500-549bp 1.3%
550-599bp 0%
>= 600bp 0%
Undefined 18.6%

Distribution of Floating Rate Start Dates is shown in the table below. This is the date of the next adjustment to the dividend rate, if the issue is currently paying a fixed rate for a limited time; which in practice is successive terms of 5 years. Issues that adjust quarterly are considered “Currently Floating”.

Range MAPF Weight
Currently Floating 2.3%
0-1 Year 9.6%
1-2 Years 6.2%
2-3 Years 6.5%
3-4 Years 21.1%
4-5 Years 37.8%
5-6 Years 0%
>6 Years 0%
Not Floating Rate 16.4%

MAPF is, of course, Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund, a “unit trust” managed by Hymas Investment Management Inc. Further information and links to performance, audited financials and subscription information are available the fund’s web page. The fund may be purchased directly from Hymas Investment Management. A “unit trust” is like a regular mutual fund, but are not sold with a prospectus. This is cheaper, but means subscription is restricted to “accredited investors” (as defined by the Ontario Securities Commission). Fund past performances are not a guarantee of future performance. You can lose money investing in MAPF or any other fund.

February 26, 2021

Friday, February 26th, 2021
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 -3.5067 % 2,219.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -3.5067 % 4,072.9
Floater 3.90 % 3.95 % 50,907 17.47 3 -3.5067 % 2,347.3
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0879 % 3,669.6
SplitShare 4.70 % 4.27 % 36,048 4.18 8 -0.0879 % 4,382.3
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0879 % 3,419.3
Perpetual-Premium 5.36 % 3.06 % 72,674 0.13 19 -0.1299 % 3,234.7
Perpetual-Discount 4.97 % 5.00 % 96,284 15.38 13 0.2363 % 3,733.2
FixedReset Disc 4.58 % 3.88 % 183,088 17.15 56 -0.6891 % 2,566.4
Insurance Straight 5.02 % 4.78 % 80,284 15.31 22 -0.2139 % 3,596.1
FloatingReset 3.14 % 2.64 % 32,290 20.69 2 -0.1860 % 2,279.6
FixedReset Prem 5.13 % 2.71 % 231,582 0.89 20 -0.0373 % 2,709.9
FixedReset Bank Non 1.81 % 1.92 % 220,686 0.49 1 -0.0400 % 2,890.8
FixedReset Ins Non 4.45 % 3.72 % 131,701 17.75 22 -0.5439 % 2,762.6
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc -13.68 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 13.25
Evaluated at bid price : 13.25
Bid-YTW : 4.45 %
BAM.PR.B Floater -4.46 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 10.93
Evaluated at bid price : 10.93
Bid-YTW : 3.97 %
BAM.PR.C Floater -4.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 10.99
Evaluated at bid price : 10.99
Bid-YTW : 3.95 %
CU.PR.C FixedReset Disc -3.74 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 19.80
Evaluated at bid price : 19.80
Bid-YTW : 4.15 %
PWF.PR.T FixedReset Disc -2.66 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 21.27
Evaluated at bid price : 21.55
Bid-YTW : 3.93 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non -2.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 14.32
Evaluated at bid price : 14.32
Bid-YTW : 3.65 %
PWF.PR.S Perpetual-Discount -2.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.56
Evaluated at bid price : 24.00
Bid-YTW : 5.03 %
BAM.PR.K Floater -2.03 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 11.10
Evaluated at bid price : 11.10
Bid-YTW : 3.91 %
BIP.PR.E FixedReset Disc -1.87 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.24
Evaluated at bid price : 23.56
Bid-YTW : 5.29 %
BAM.PR.R FixedReset Disc -1.80 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 17.48
Evaluated at bid price : 17.48
Bid-YTW : 4.59 %
MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non -1.75 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.01
Evaluated at bid price : 22.45
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %
CM.PR.Q FixedReset Disc -1.64 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.15
Evaluated at bid price : 22.73
Bid-YTW : 3.88 %
NA.PR.W FixedReset Disc -1.63 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 21.16
Evaluated at bid price : 21.16
Bid-YTW : 3.87 %
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non -1.46 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.91
Evaluated at bid price : 23.64
Bid-YTW : 3.70 %
TD.PF.D FixedReset Disc -1.35 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.51
Evaluated at bid price : 23.36
Bid-YTW : 3.77 %
BAM.PR.T FixedReset Disc -1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 17.75
Evaluated at bid price : 17.75
Bid-YTW : 4.56 %
IFC.PR.I Perpetual-Premium -1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.00
Bid-YTW : 4.95 %
BAM.PF.A FixedReset Disc -1.29 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 21.95
Evaluated at bid price : 22.21
Bid-YTW : 4.49 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset Disc -1.25 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 15.05
Evaluated at bid price : 15.05
Bid-YTW : 4.49 %
NA.PR.E FixedReset Disc -1.24 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.71
Evaluated at bid price : 23.01
Bid-YTW : 3.88 %
BNS.PR.I FixedReset Disc -1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.03
Evaluated at bid price : 24.10
Bid-YTW : 3.60 %
BIP.PR.F FixedReset Disc -1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.09
Evaluated at bid price : 24.20
Bid-YTW : 5.21 %
GWO.PR.R Insurance Straight -1.20 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 24.35
Evaluated at bid price : 24.60
Bid-YTW : 4.94 %
SLF.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non -1.16 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.24
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 3.72 %
MFC.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non -1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.89
Evaluated at bid price : 24.44
Bid-YTW : 3.82 %
MFC.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non -1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.82
Evaluated at bid price : 24.20
Bid-YTW : 3.87 %
TRP.PR.F FloatingReset -1.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 13.99
Evaluated at bid price : 13.99
Bid-YTW : 3.62 %
TD.PF.M FixedReset Prem 1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2024-07-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.74
Bid-YTW : 4.31 %
SLF.PR.H FixedReset Ins Non 1.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 20.91
Evaluated at bid price : 20.91
Bid-YTW : 3.62 %
TD.PF.A FixedReset Disc 1.60 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.26
Evaluated at bid price : 22.82
Bid-YTW : 3.49 %
BAM.PR.Z FixedReset Disc 1.62 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 21.56
Evaluated at bid price : 21.95
Bid-YTW : 4.49 %
CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount 2.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 24.50
Evaluated at bid price : 24.81
Bid-YTW : 4.95 %
CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount 3.72 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.43
Evaluated at bid price : 23.70
Bid-YTW : 4.75 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset 184,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 14.31
Evaluated at bid price : 14.31
Bid-YTW : 2.64 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non 156,300 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 14.50
Evaluated at bid price : 14.50
Bid-YTW : 3.75 %
TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc 123,440 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 12.80
Evaluated at bid price : 12.80
Bid-YTW : 4.50 %
BAM.PF.H FixedReset Prem 70,101 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2025-12-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.90
Bid-YTW : 4.37 %
TRP.PR.E FixedReset Disc 52,535 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 18.12
Evaluated at bid price : 18.12
Bid-YTW : 4.63 %
BNS.PR.G FixedReset Prem 47,069 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-07-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.42
Bid-YTW : 2.52 %
There were 40 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc Quote: 13.25 – 15.50
Spot Rate : 2.2500
Average : 1.2907

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 13.25
Evaluated at bid price : 13.25
Bid-YTW : 4.45 %

TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc Quote: 15.57 – 18.00
Spot Rate : 2.4300
Average : 1.8549

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 15.57
Evaluated at bid price : 15.57
Bid-YTW : 4.69 %

CM.PR.Q FixedReset Disc Quote: 22.73 – 23.48
Spot Rate : 0.7500
Average : 0.4638

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 22.15
Evaluated at bid price : 22.73
Bid-YTW : 3.88 %

SLF.PR.J FloatingReset Quote: 14.31 – 15.00
Spot Rate : 0.6900
Average : 0.4429

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 14.31
Evaluated at bid price : 14.31
Bid-YTW : 2.64 %

SLF.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 23.85 – 24.48
Spot Rate : 0.6300
Average : 0.3865

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.24
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 3.72 %

BIP.PR.E FixedReset Disc Quote: 23.56 – 24.20
Spot Rate : 0.6400
Average : 0.4475

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-26
Maturity Price : 23.24
Evaluated at bid price : 23.56
Bid-YTW : 5.29 %

February 25, 2021

Thursday, February 25th, 2021
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 -0.5233 % 2,300.3
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.5233 % 4,221.0
Floater 3.76 % 3.79 % 51,417 17.81 3 -0.5233 % 2,432.6
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0073 % 3,672.9
SplitShare 4.70 % 4.17 % 36,098 4.19 8 0.0073 % 4,386.2
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0073 % 3,422.3
Perpetual-Premium 5.35 % 2.92 % 71,401 0.13 19 -0.0618 % 3,238.9
Perpetual-Discount 4.98 % 5.00 % 96,665 15.41 13 -1.0969 % 3,724.4
FixedReset Disc 4.54 % 3.85 % 181,396 17.28 56 0.7783 % 2,584.2
Insurance Straight 5.00 % 4.78 % 79,514 15.29 22 -0.3718 % 3,603.8
FloatingReset 3.09 % 2.66 % 29,737 20.57 2 1.4503 % 2,283.8
FixedReset Prem 5.13 % 2.59 % 234,783 0.89 20 0.0384 % 2,710.9
FixedReset Bank Non 1.80 % 1.83 % 219,067 0.49 1 0.0400 % 2,892.0
FixedReset Ins Non 4.42 % 3.70 % 132,946 17.79 22 0.4422 % 2,777.7
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount -5.77 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.58
Evaluated at bid price : 22.85
Bid-YTW : 4.93 %
CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount -3.40 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.90
Evaluated at bid price : 24.15
Bid-YTW : 5.09 %
BIP.PR.A FixedReset Disc -2.37 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 21.69
Evaluated at bid price : 22.03
Bid-YTW : 4.88 %
CU.PR.D Perpetual-Discount -1.84 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 24.28
Evaluated at bid price : 24.55
Bid-YTW : 5.00 %
MFC.PR.B Insurance Straight -1.69 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 24.22
Evaluated at bid price : 24.48
Bid-YTW : 4.74 %
BAM.PR.K Floater -1.48 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 11.33
Evaluated at bid price : 11.33
Bid-YTW : 3.82 %
CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.44
Evaluated at bid price : 23.70
Bid-YTW : 4.75 %
MFC.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.95
Evaluated at bid price : 24.20
Bid-YTW : 4.64 %
BIP.PR.E FixedReset Disc -1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.14
Evaluated at bid price : 24.01
Bid-YTW : 5.16 %
IAF.PR.B Insurance Straight -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 24.16
Evaluated at bid price : 24.41
Bid-YTW : 4.69 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 14.70
Evaluated at bid price : 14.70
Bid-YTW : 3.74 %
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non 1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.09
Evaluated at bid price : 23.99
Bid-YTW : 3.63 %
TD.PF.D FixedReset Disc 1.11 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.67
Evaluated at bid price : 23.68
Bid-YTW : 3.70 %
BAM.PF.A FixedReset Disc 1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.16
Evaluated at bid price : 22.50
Bid-YTW : 4.43 %
TRP.PR.K FixedReset Disc 1.19 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.53
Bid-YTW : 3.18 %
BNS.PR.I FixedReset Disc 1.24 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.16
Evaluated at bid price : 24.40
Bid-YTW : 3.53 %
PWF.PR.T FixedReset Disc 1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 21.86
Evaluated at bid price : 22.14
Bid-YTW : 3.82 %
TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc 1.35 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 15.74
Evaluated at bid price : 15.74
Bid-YTW : 4.73 %
TRP.PR.F FloatingReset 1.42 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 14.28
Evaluated at bid price : 14.28
Bid-YTW : 3.59 %
TD.PF.C FixedReset Disc 1.42 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.23
Evaluated at bid price : 22.80
Bid-YTW : 3.55 %
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc 1.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 15.35
Evaluated at bid price : 15.35
Bid-YTW : 3.85 %
RY.PR.J FixedReset Disc 1.47 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.56
Evaluated at bid price : 23.44
Bid-YTW : 3.70 %
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset 1.48 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 14.40
Evaluated at bid price : 14.40
Bid-YTW : 2.66 %
BMO.PR.S FixedReset Disc 1.57 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.19
Evaluated at bid price : 22.65
Bid-YTW : 3.62 %
BAM.PF.B FixedReset Disc 1.64 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 20.49
Evaluated at bid price : 20.49
Bid-YTW : 4.52 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non 1.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 14.70
Evaluated at bid price : 14.70
Bid-YTW : 3.55 %
NA.PR.S FixedReset Disc 1.84 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 21.81
Evaluated at bid price : 22.10
Bid-YTW : 3.83 %
NA.PR.W FixedReset Disc 2.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 21.51
Evaluated at bid price : 21.51
Bid-YTW : 3.80 %
MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non 2.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.27
Evaluated at bid price : 22.85
Bid-YTW : 3.59 %
MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non 2.24 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 16.00
Evaluated at bid price : 16.00
Bid-YTW : 3.55 %
BAM.PR.R FixedReset Disc 2.89 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 17.80
Evaluated at bid price : 17.80
Bid-YTW : 4.50 %
BAM.PR.T FixedReset Disc 3.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 17.99
Evaluated at bid price : 17.99
Bid-YTW : 4.50 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset Disc 3.48 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 11.90
Evaluated at bid price : 11.90
Bid-YTW : 4.34 %
TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc 3.55 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 12.84
Evaluated at bid price : 12.84
Bid-YTW : 4.49 %
CU.PR.C FixedReset Disc 4.68 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 20.57
Evaluated at bid price : 20.57
Bid-YTW : 3.99 %
TD.PF.B FixedReset Disc 5.71 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.36
Evaluated at bid price : 22.94
Bid-YTW : 3.49 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
NA.PR.A FixedReset Prem 413,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-08-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.38
Bid-YTW : 2.52 %
BAM.PR.R FixedReset Disc 192,273 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 17.80
Evaluated at bid price : 17.80
Bid-YTW : 4.50 %
CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount 174,691 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.44
Evaluated at bid price : 23.70
Bid-YTW : 4.75 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset Disc 164,046 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 15.24
Evaluated at bid price : 15.24
Bid-YTW : 4.44 %
MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Premium 161,778 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2030-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.50
Bid-YTW : 5.17 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset Disc 142,306 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 11.90
Evaluated at bid price : 11.90
Bid-YTW : 4.34 %
TRP.PR.G FixedReset Disc 103,348 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 19.76
Evaluated at bid price : 19.76
Bid-YTW : 4.70 %
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Premium 102,087 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-09-01
Maturity Price : 25.50
Evaluated at bid price : 25.85
Bid-YTW : 4.19 %
There were 57 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc Quote: 15.74 – 17.95
Spot Rate : 2.2100
Average : 1.2244

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 15.74
Evaluated at bid price : 15.74
Bid-YTW : 4.73 %

CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount Quote: 22.85 – 24.15
Spot Rate : 1.3000
Average : 0.7182

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.58
Evaluated at bid price : 22.85
Bid-YTW : 4.93 %

CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount Quote: 24.15 – 25.15
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.5933

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 23.90
Evaluated at bid price : 24.15
Bid-YTW : 5.09 %

BAM.PR.Z FixedReset Disc Quote: 21.60 – 22.50
Spot Rate : 0.9000
Average : 0.6173

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 21.31
Evaluated at bid price : 21.60
Bid-YTW : 4.57 %

TD.PF.A FixedReset Disc Quote: 22.46 – 23.08
Spot Rate : 0.6200
Average : 0.3859

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-25
Maturity Price : 22.03
Evaluated at bid price : 22.46
Bid-YTW : 3.56 %

CU.PR.I FixedReset Prem Quote: 25.68 – 26.40
Spot Rate : 0.7200
Average : 0.5087

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2025-12-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.68
Bid-YTW : 3.88 %

February 24, 2021

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 4.97%, equivalent to 6.46% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 3.16%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is slightly (and perhaps spuriously) narrower at 330bp than the 335bp reported February 17.

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 -0.6068 % 2,312.4
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.6068 % 4,243.2
Floater 3.74 % 3.77 % 51,764 17.86 3 -0.6068 % 2,445.4
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1609 % 3,672.6
SplitShare 4.70 % 4.16 % 36,248 4.19 8 -0.1609 % 4,385.9
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1609 % 3,422.0
Perpetual-Premium 5.35 % 2.76 % 71,541 0.08 19 -0.0227 % 3,240.9
Perpetual-Discount 4.92 % 4.97 % 98,783 15.43 13 -0.1400 % 3,765.7
FixedReset Disc 4.57 % 3.74 % 179,119 17.57 56 -0.0312 % 2,564.2
Insurance Straight 4.97 % 4.67 % 77,241 15.29 22 -0.2295 % 3,617.3
FloatingReset 3.12 % 2.68 % 30,546 20.51 2 0.3194 % 2,251.2
FixedReset Prem 5.12 % 3.19 % 235,394 0.90 20 0.0727 % 2,709.9
FixedReset Bank Non 1.81 % 1.86 % 202,821 0.92 1 -0.0400 % 2,890.8
FixedReset Ins Non 4.43 % 3.52 % 131,013 18.13 22 0.1170 % 2,765.5
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
TD.PF.B FixedReset Disc -3.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 21.38
Evaluated at bid price : 21.70
Bid-YTW : 3.52 %
BAM.PR.Z FixedReset Disc -1.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 21.31
Evaluated at bid price : 21.60
Bid-YTW : 4.36 %
GWO.PR.I Insurance Straight -1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 23.84
Evaluated at bid price : 24.09
Bid-YTW : 4.73 %
BAM.PF.G FixedReset Disc -1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 19.90
Evaluated at bid price : 19.90
Bid-YTW : 4.39 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non -1.03 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 14.45
Evaluated at bid price : 14.45
Bid-YTW : 3.35 %
MFC.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 24.21
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 4.58 %
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc 4.34 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 15.13
Evaluated at bid price : 15.13
Bid-YTW : 3.66 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
BNS.PR.E FixedReset Prem 512,825 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-04-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.20
Bid-YTW : 3.19 %
NA.PR.X FixedReset Prem 180,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.21
Bid-YTW : 2.38 %
BMO.PR.Y FixedReset Disc 133,100 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 22.10
Evaluated at bid price : 22.65
Bid-YTW : 3.61 %
CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount 61,570 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 23.96
Evaluated at bid price : 24.25
Bid-YTW : 4.64 %
CM.PR.R FixedReset Disc 61,043 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 23.76
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 4.02 %
TRP.PR.D FixedReset Disc 56,876 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 18.22
Evaluated at bid price : 18.22
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %
There were 36 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
TD.PF.B FixedReset Disc Quote: 21.70 – 22.53
Spot Rate : 0.8300
Average : 0.4829

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 21.38
Evaluated at bid price : 21.70
Bid-YTW : 3.52 %

BAM.PR.Z FixedReset Disc Quote: 21.60 – 22.08
Spot Rate : 0.4800
Average : 0.3073

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 21.31
Evaluated at bid price : 21.60
Bid-YTW : 4.36 %

BMO.PR.S FixedReset Disc Quote: 22.30 – 22.62
Spot Rate : 0.3200
Average : 0.2066

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 21.95
Evaluated at bid price : 22.30
Bid-YTW : 3.49 %

TRP.PR.D FixedReset Disc Quote: 18.22 – 18.88
Spot Rate : 0.6600
Average : 0.5821

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 18.22
Evaluated at bid price : 18.22
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %

TRP.PR.G FixedReset Disc Quote: 19.75 – 20.00
Spot Rate : 0.2500
Average : 0.1724

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 19.75
Evaluated at bid price : 19.75
Bid-YTW : 4.52 %

MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 21.35 – 21.71
Spot Rate : 0.3600
Average : 0.2877

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-24
Maturity Price : 21.35
Evaluated at bid price : 21.35
Bid-YTW : 3.48 %

February 23, 2021

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
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 1.3470 % 2,326.5
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.3470 % 4,269.1
Floater 3.72 % 3.74 % 52,252 17.91 3 1.3470 % 2,460.3
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0805 % 3,678.5
SplitShare 4.69 % 4.09 % 35,111 4.20 8 0.0805 % 4,392.9
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0805 % 3,427.5
Perpetual-Premium 5.35 % 2.96 % 71,938 0.14 19 0.0825 % 3,241.7
Perpetual-Discount 4.92 % 4.97 % 91,405 15.44 13 0.1871 % 3,771.0
FixedReset Disc 4.57 % 3.74 % 178,433 17.55 56 0.3042 % 2,565.0
Insurance Straight 4.96 % 4.63 % 79,022 15.35 22 -0.0108 % 3,625.6
FloatingReset 3.13 % 2.68 % 28,138 20.51 2 -0.0355 % 2,244.0
FixedReset Prem 5.13 % 3.14 % 222,322 0.90 20 0.0904 % 2,707.9
FixedReset Bank Non 1.80 % 1.81 % 198,915 0.93 1 0.0000 % 2,892.0
FixedReset Ins Non 4.44 % 3.53 % 129,613 18.14 22 0.2200 % 2,762.2
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
GWO.PR.F Insurance Straight -1.28 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-03-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.42
Bid-YTW : -3.84 %
MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non -1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 15.55
Evaluated at bid price : 15.55
Bid-YTW : 3.33 %
BAM.PF.F FixedReset Disc 1.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 21.22
Evaluated at bid price : 21.22
Bid-YTW : 4.32 %
BAM.PF.G FixedReset Disc 1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 20.11
Evaluated at bid price : 20.11
Bid-YTW : 4.34 %
MFC.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non 1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 21.86
Evaluated at bid price : 22.25
Bid-YTW : 3.45 %
MFC.PR.O FixedReset Ins Non 1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-06-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.15
Bid-YTW : 2.54 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non 1.18 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 14.60
Evaluated at bid price : 14.60
Bid-YTW : 3.31 %
SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight 1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 24.46
Evaluated at bid price : 24.70
Bid-YTW : 4.56 %
BAM.PR.B Floater 1.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 11.57
Evaluated at bid price : 11.57
Bid-YTW : 3.74 %
MFC.PR.J FixedReset Ins Non 1.52 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 23.69
Evaluated at bid price : 24.00
Bid-YTW : 3.53 %
TRP.PR.G FixedReset Disc 1.53 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 19.85
Evaluated at bid price : 19.85
Bid-YTW : 4.49 %
BAM.PR.R FixedReset Disc 1.58 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 17.37
Evaluated at bid price : 17.37
Bid-YTW : 4.32 %
NA.PR.G FixedReset Disc 1.63 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 23.13
Evaluated at bid price : 24.25
Bid-YTW : 3.68 %
CM.PR.R FixedReset Disc 2.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 23.75
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 4.02 %
BAM.PR.K Floater 2.38 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 11.60
Evaluated at bid price : 11.60
Bid-YTW : 3.73 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
BMO.PR.B FixedReset Prem 206,575 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-02-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.56
Bid-YTW : 2.58 %
RY.PR.H FixedReset Disc 205,870 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 22.04
Evaluated at bid price : 22.45
Bid-YTW : 3.37 %
TD.PF.A FixedReset Disc 170,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 21.97
Evaluated at bid price : 22.37
Bid-YTW : 3.38 %
BNS.PR.H FixedReset Prem 165,435 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-01-26
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.65
Bid-YTW : 2.41 %
BMO.PR.W FixedReset Disc 126,450 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 21.38
Evaluated at bid price : 21.70
Bid-YTW : 3.51 %
BAM.PF.G FixedReset Disc 111,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 20.11
Evaluated at bid price : 20.11
Bid-YTW : 4.34 %
BAM.PR.R FixedReset Disc 107,140 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 17.37
Evaluated at bid price : 17.37
Bid-YTW : 4.32 %
There were 31 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
CU.PR.I FixedReset Prem Quote: 25.66 – 26.40
Spot Rate : 0.7400
Average : 0.4491

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2025-12-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.66
Bid-YTW : 3.89 %

EIT.PR.B SplitShare Quote: 25.80 – 26.80
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.7210

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Soft Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-03-14
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.80
Bid-YTW : 3.89 %

TRP.PR.D FixedReset Disc Quote: 18.22 – 18.88
Spot Rate : 0.6600
Average : 0.4967

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 18.22
Evaluated at bid price : 18.22
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %

SLF.PR.B Insurance Straight Quote: 25.05 – 25.45
Spot Rate : 0.4000
Average : 0.2665

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 24.83
Evaluated at bid price : 25.05
Bid-YTW : 4.85 %

MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 15.55 – 15.97
Spot Rate : 0.4200
Average : 0.3273

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-23
Maturity Price : 15.55
Evaluated at bid price : 15.55
Bid-YTW : 3.33 %

MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Premium Quote: 25.55 – 25.80
Spot Rate : 0.2500
Average : 0.1638

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2030-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.55
Bid-YTW : 5.14 %

February 22, 2021

Monday, February 22nd, 2021
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 0.2642 % 2,295.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2642 % 4,212.3
Floater 3.77 % 3.80 % 52,377 17.79 3 0.2642 % 2,427.6
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2494 % 3,675.5
SplitShare 4.70 % 4.15 % 35,038 4.20 8 0.2494 % 4,389.4
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2494 % 3,424.8
Perpetual-Premium 5.35 % 3.79 % 72,972 0.15 19 -0.2612 % 3,239.0
Perpetual-Discount 4.93 % 4.98 % 92,684 15.42 13 -0.0125 % 3,764.0
FixedReset Disc 4.59 % 3.76 % 178,093 17.55 56 0.2040 % 2,557.3
Insurance Straight 4.96 % 4.61 % 79,302 15.33 22 -0.1691 % 3,626.0
FloatingReset 3.13 % 2.68 % 28,224 20.52 2 -0.8442 % 2,244.8
FixedReset Prem 5.13 % 3.08 % 222,995 0.90 20 -0.0688 % 2,705.4
FixedReset Bank Non 1.80 % 1.80 % 200,778 0.93 1 0.0000 % 2,892.0
FixedReset Ins Non 4.45 % 3.57 % 128,443 18.07 22 0.1911 % 2,756.2
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc -2.56 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 14.45
Evaluated at bid price : 14.45
Bid-YTW : 3.83 %
CM.PR.R FixedReset Disc -1.92 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.14
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 4.17 %
SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.81 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.15
Evaluated at bid price : 24.40
Bid-YTW : 4.61 %
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset -1.66 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 14.20
Evaluated at bid price : 14.20
Bid-YTW : 2.68 %
RY.PR.N Perpetual-Premium -1.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2024-11-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.74
Bid-YTW : 4.06 %
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight -1.20 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.46
Evaluated at bid price : 24.70
Bid-YTW : 4.61 %
MFC.PR.O FixedReset Ins Non -1.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.71
Evaluated at bid price : 25.21
Bid-YTW : 5.67 %
CU.PR.C FixedReset Disc -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 19.60
Evaluated at bid price : 19.60
Bid-YTW : 3.94 %
CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount 1.00 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 23.76
Evaluated at bid price : 24.22
Bid-YTW : 4.64 %
SLF.PR.H FixedReset Ins Non 1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 20.98
Evaluated at bid price : 20.98
Bid-YTW : 3.41 %
BAM.PR.C Floater 1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 11.42
Evaluated at bid price : 11.42
Bid-YTW : 3.79 %
IAF.PR.B Insurance Straight 1.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.92
Evaluated at bid price : 25.15
Bid-YTW : 4.63 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset Disc 1.70 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 11.35
Evaluated at bid price : 11.35
Bid-YTW : 4.21 %
MFC.PR.J FixedReset Ins Non 3.39 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 23.31
Evaluated at bid price : 23.64
Bid-YTW : 3.58 %
TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc 7.83 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 12.40
Evaluated at bid price : 12.40
Bid-YTW : 4.35 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
IFC.PR.A FixedReset Ins Non 156,079 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 17.55
Evaluated at bid price : 17.55
Bid-YTW : 3.57 %
MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Premium 94,243 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2030-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.45
Bid-YTW : 5.19 %
RY.PR.Q FixedReset Prem 85,830 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.19
Bid-YTW : 2.32 %
BNS.PR.E FixedReset Prem 73,600 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-04-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.20
Bid-YTW : 3.08 %
MFC.PR.O FixedReset Ins Non 63,930 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.71
Evaluated at bid price : 25.21
Bid-YTW : 5.67 %
SLF.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non 61,980 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 23.62
Evaluated at bid price : 24.19
Bid-YTW : 3.52 %
There were 38 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 Disc Quote: 15.20 – 17.25
Spot Rate : 2.0500
Average : 1.2418

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 15.20
Evaluated at bid price : 15.20
Bid-YTW : 4.13 %

PVS.PR.H SplitShare Quote: 25.63 – 26.63
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.5960

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2027-02-28
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.63
Bid-YTW : 4.21 %

SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight Quote: 24.40 – 24.95
Spot Rate : 0.5500
Average : 0.3392

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.15
Evaluated at bid price : 24.40
Bid-YTW : 4.61 %

MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 23.70 – 24.19
Spot Rate : 0.4900
Average : 0.3167

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 22.94
Evaluated at bid price : 23.70
Bid-YTW : 3.49 %

CM.PR.R FixedReset Disc Quote: 24.50 – 24.95
Spot Rate : 0.4500
Average : 0.2794

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 24.14
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 4.17 %

BNS.PR.I FixedReset Disc Quote: 24.10 – 24.49
Spot Rate : 0.3900
Average : 0.2820

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-22
Maturity Price : 23.03
Evaluated at bid price : 24.10
Bid-YTW : 3.40 %

FN.PR.A & FN.PR.B To Be Extended

Monday, February 22nd, 2021

First National Financial Corporation has announced (although not yet on their website):

that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem the currently outstanding 2,887,147 cumulative 5-year rate reset Class A Preference Shares, Series 1 of First National (“Series 1 Preference Shares”) or 1,112,853 cumulative floating rate reset Class A Preference Shares, Series 2 of First National (“Series 2 Preference Shares”) on March 31, 2021.

As a result, subject to certain conditions, the holders of Series 1 Preference Shares have the right to convert all or part of their Series 1 Preference Shares on a one-for-one basis into Series 2 Preference Shares on March 31, 2021. As well, subject to certain conditions, the holders of Series 2 Preference Shares have the right to convert all or part of their Series 2 Preference Shares on a one-for-one basis into Series 1 Preference Shares on March 31, 2021. Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series 1 Preference Shares into Series 2 Preference Shares will retain their Series 1 Preference Shares. Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series 2 Preference Shares into Series 1 Preference Shares will retain their Series 2 Preference Shares.

The foregoing conversions are subject to the conditions that: (i) if First National determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 1 Preference Shares outstanding on March 31, 2021, then all remaining Series 1 Preference Shares will automatically be converted into Series 2 Preference Shares on a one-for-one basis on March 31, 2021, and (ii) alternatively, if First National determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 2 Preference Shares outstanding on March 31, 2021, then all remaining Series 2 Preference Shares will automatically be converted into Series 1 Preference Shares on a one-for-one basis on March 31, 2021. In either case, First National shall give a written notice to that effect to holders of both Series 1 and Series 2 Preference Shares no later than March 24, 2021.

Deadline to Exercise Right

Beneficial owners of Series 1 Preference Shares and Series 2 Preference Shares who wish to exercise their right of conversion should communicate as soon as possible with their broker or other nominee and ensure that they follow their instructions in order to ensure that they meet the deadline to exercise such right, which is 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on March 16, 2021.

Dividend Rate

On March 2, 2021, the Company will announce by way of a news release:

i) The dividend rate applicable to the Series 1 Preference Shares for the five-year period commencing on April 1, 2021, and ending on March 31, 2026,

ii) The dividend rate applicable to the Series 2 Preference Shares for the three-month period commencing on April 1, 2021, and ending on June 30, 2021.

The dividend rates will be determined in accordance with the terms of the respective classes of preference shares.

FN.PR.A was issued as a FixedReset, 4.65%+207, that commenced trading 2011-1-25 after being announced 2011-1-17. Notice of extension was given in February, 2016 and the issue reset to 2.79%. I recommended against conversion, but there was a 28% conversion to FloatingReset anyway.

FN.PR.B is a FloatingReset, Bills+207, that arose via a 28% conversion from FN.PR.A in 2016.

February 19, 2021

Friday, February 19th, 2021
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 1.7020 % 2,289.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.7020 % 4,201.2
Floater 3.78 % 3.83 % 51,909 17.74 3 1.7020 % 2,421.2
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4789 % 3,666.4
SplitShare 4.71 % 4.27 % 35,327 4.20 8 0.4789 % 4,378.5
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4789 % 3,416.3
Perpetual-Premium 5.34 % -1.18 % 72,517 0.08 19 -0.0966 % 3,247.5
Perpetual-Discount 4.93 % 4.98 % 92,466 15.44 13 -0.1618 % 3,764.4
FixedReset Disc 4.60 % 3.59 % 176,831 17.91 56 -0.0792 % 2,552.1
Insurance Straight 4.95 % 4.55 % 80,188 15.30 22 -0.0234 % 3,632.2
FloatingReset 3.05 % 2.58 % 29,178 20.79 2 0.9947 % 2,263.9
FixedReset Prem 5.13 % 3.39 % 225,661 0.91 20 -0.1510 % 2,707.3
FixedReset Bank Non 1.80 % 1.70 % 185,887 0.94 1 0.0000 % 2,892.0
FixedReset Ins Non 4.43 % 3.38 % 125,002 18.29 22 -0.2677 % 2,750.9
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc -8.00 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 11.50
Evaluated at bid price : 11.50
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %
MFC.PR.J FixedReset Ins Non -3.34 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 22.83
Evaluated at bid price : 23.15
Bid-YTW : 3.56 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset Disc -2.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 11.16
Evaluated at bid price : 11.16
Bid-YTW : 3.98 %
NA.PR.G FixedReset Disc -1.61 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 22.95
Evaluated at bid price : 23.86
Bid-YTW : 3.59 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non -1.48 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 14.68
Evaluated at bid price : 14.68
Bid-YTW : 3.25 %
CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.32 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 23.57
Evaluated at bid price : 23.98
Bid-YTW : 4.68 %
SLF.PR.H FixedReset Ins Non -1.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 20.76
Evaluated at bid price : 20.76
Bid-YTW : 3.25 %
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc -1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 14.83
Evaluated at bid price : 14.83
Bid-YTW : 3.51 %
IAF.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non -1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 23.26
Evaluated at bid price : 24.26
Bid-YTW : 3.47 %
TRP.PR.F FloatingReset 1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 13.99
Evaluated at bid price : 13.99
Bid-YTW : 3.59 %
BAM.PF.B FixedReset Disc 1.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 20.10
Evaluated at bid price : 20.10
Bid-YTW : 4.21 %
IFC.PR.A FixedReset Ins Non 1.50 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 17.59
Evaluated at bid price : 17.59
Bid-YTW : 3.33 %
BAM.PF.E FixedReset Disc 1.61 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 18.93
Evaluated at bid price : 18.93
Bid-YTW : 4.22 %
CU.PR.C FixedReset Disc 1.80 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 19.80
Evaluated at bid price : 19.80
Bid-YTW : 3.70 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset Disc 2.77 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 15.20
Evaluated at bid price : 15.20
Bid-YTW : 3.87 %
BAM.PR.B Floater 3.25 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 11.44
Evaluated at bid price : 11.44
Bid-YTW : 3.79 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
PWF.PR.G Perpetual-Premium 277,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-03-21
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.31
Bid-YTW : -5.52 %
TD.PF.H FixedReset Prem 267,480 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-10-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.45
Bid-YTW : 2.62 %
MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Premium 91,677 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2030-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.40
Bid-YTW : 5.21 %
BNS.PR.E FixedReset Prem 86,458 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-04-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.18
Bid-YTW : 3.39 %
IFC.PR.C FixedReset Ins Non 57,385 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 22.03
Evaluated at bid price : 22.62
Bid-YTW : 3.48 %
TD.PF.K FixedReset Disc 55,815 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 22.92
Evaluated at bid price : 23.79
Bid-YTW : 3.42 %
There were 53 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MFC.PR.J FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 23.15 – 24.37
Spot Rate : 1.2200
Average : 0.7858

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 22.83
Evaluated at bid price : 23.15
Bid-YTW : 3.56 %

TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc Quote: 11.50 – 12.42
Spot Rate : 0.9200
Average : 0.5513

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 11.50
Evaluated at bid price : 11.50
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %

EIT.PR.B SplitShare Quote: 25.66 – 26.66
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.6730

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Soft Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-03-14
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.66
Bid-YTW : 4.02 %

RY.PR.M FixedReset Disc Quote: 22.19 – 24.30
Spot Rate : 2.1100
Average : 1.7916

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 21.78
Evaluated at bid price : 22.19
Bid-YTW : 3.45 %

PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc Quote: 14.83 – 15.54
Spot Rate : 0.7100
Average : 0.4538

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 14.83
Evaluated at bid price : 14.83
Bid-YTW : 3.51 %

PWF.PR.T FixedReset Disc Quote: 21.55 – 22.45
Spot Rate : 0.9000
Average : 0.6685

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2051-02-19
Maturity Price : 21.27
Evaluated at bid price : 21.55
Bid-YTW : 3.54 %

MIC.PR.A Strong On Excellent Volume

Friday, February 19th, 2021

Sagen MI Canada Inc. has announced:

the closing of its previously announced bought deal offering (the “Offering”) of 4,000,000 non-cumulative Class A Preferred Shares, Series 1 (the “Series 1 Shares”). The Offering was underwritten by a syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Capital Markets, CIBC World Markets, National Bank Financial, RBC Capital Markets, Scotia Capital and TD Securities, and resulted in gross proceeds of C$100 million.

Each Series 1 Share entitles the holder thereof to fixed, non-cumulative dividends, if, as and when declared by the board of directors of the Company, with an annual dividend yield of 5.40%. Such dividends, if, declared, will be paid on the last day of March, June, September and December in each year at a rate equal to $0.3375 per Series 1 Share. The initial dividend, if declared, will be paid on June 30, 2021 and will be $0.48822 per Series 1 Share. The Series 1 Shares will commence trading today on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol MIC.PR.A.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to strengthen the Company’s capital base, for distributions to shareholders (subject to the completion of the previously announced plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) pursuant to which Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with certain of its affiliates and institutional partners (“Brookfield”), will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of the Company not already owned by Brookfield), and/or for general corporate purposes.

Following the closing of the Arrangement, in order to maintain in force an exemption order from the public voting requirement currently in section 411 of the Insurance Companies Act (Canada) that has been granted to Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance Company Canada (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company doing business as Sagen™), and subject to certain other limitations and conditions, the Class A Preferred Shares, as a class, will carry adjustable voting rights to ensure that, at any given time, 35% of the voting rights in the Company will be held by persons who, among other things, do not hold 20% or more of any class of voting shares of the Company.

MIC.PR.A is a Straight Perpetual, 5.40%, that was announced 2021-2-8.

The issue traded 649,600 shares today in a range of 25.08-48. It has been assigned to the PerpetualPremium subindex. Vital statistics are:

MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Premium YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2030-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.45
Bid-YTW : 5.19 %