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Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. has announced (on 2021-9-1):

the applicable dividend rates for its Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series A (the “Series A Preferred Shares”) and its Cumulative Floating Rate First Preferred Shares, Series B (the “Series B Preferred Shares”), further to its press release dated August 3, 2021 announcing that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem all or any part of the currently outstanding Series A Preferred Shares and, as a result of which, subject to certain conditions, the holders of the Series A Preferred Shares have the right to convert all or any part of their Series A Preferred Shares into Series B Preferred Shares on a one-for-one basis.

With respect to any Series A Preferred Shares that remain outstanding after September 30, 2021, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly fixed, cumulative, preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of the Company, subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). The dividend rate for the five-year period commencing on October 1, 2021 and ending on and including September 30, 2026 will be 4.028% per annum, being equal to the sum of the five-year Government of Canada bond yield determined as of today, plus 3.21%, in accordance with the terms of the Series A Preferred Shares.

With respect to any Series B Preferred Shares that may be issued on September 30, 2021, holders thereof will be entitled to receive quarterly floating rate, cumulative, preferential cash dividends, if, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of the Company, subject to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). The dividend rate for the three-month period commencing on October 1, 2021 and ending on and including December 31, 2021 will be 3.388%per annum, being equal to the sum of the three-month Government of Canada Treasury Bill yield determined as of today, plus 3.21% (calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed during such quarterly period divided by 365), in accordance with the terms of the Series B Preferred Shares. The quarterly floating dividend rate will be reset every quarter.

Beneficial owners of Series A Preferred Shares who wish to exercise their conversion right should communicate as soon as possible with their broker or other nominee to ensure their instructions are followed for exercising such right on or prior to the deadline for exercise, which is 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on September 15, 2021.

CF.PR.A was issued as a 5.50%+321 FixedReset that commenced trading 2011-6-23 after being announced 2011-6-6. After notice of extension the rate reset to 3.885% in 2016, but there was no conversion to FloatingReset.

Brookfield Office Properties Inc., a subsidiary of Brookfield Property Partners L.P., has announced (on 2021-9-1):

the reset dividend rate and conversion privileges on its Class AAA Preference Shares, Series R (“Series R Shares”) (TSX: BPO.PR.R) and Class AAA Preference Shares, Series S (“Series S Shares”) (TSX: BPO.PR.S).

Series R Shares

If declared, the fixed quarterly dividends on the Series R Shares for the five years commencing October 1, 2021 and ending September 30, 2026 will be paid at an annual rate of 4.30% ($0.26875 per share per quarter).

Holders of Series R Shares have the right, at their option, exercisable no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on September 15, 2021, to convert all or part of their Series R Shares, on a one-for-one basis, into Class AAA Preference Shares, Series S (the “Series S Shares”), effective September 30, 2021.

The quarterly floating rate dividends on the Series S Shares have an annual rate, calculated for each quarter, of 3.48% over the annual yield on three-month Government of Canada treasury bills. The actual quarterly dividend rate for the October 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 dividend period for the Series S Shares will be 0.92252% (3.66% on an annualized basis) and the dividend, if declared, for such dividend period will be $0.23063 per share, payable on December 31, 2021.

Holders of Series R Shares are not required to elect to convert all or any part of their Series R Shares into Series S Shares.

As provided in the share conditions of the Series R Shares, (i) if Brookfield determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series S Shares outstanding after September 30, 2021, all remaining Series R Shares will be automatically converted into Series S Shares on a one-for-one basis effective September 30, 2021; and (ii) if Brookfield determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series S Shares outstanding after September 30, 2021, no Series R Shares will be permitted to be converted into Series S Shares. There are currently 8,883,425 Series R Shares outstanding.

Series S Shares

Holders of Series S Shares have the right, at their option, exercisable no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on September 15, 2021, to convert all or part of their Series S Shares, on a one-for-one basis, into the Series R Shares, effective September 30, 2021.

Holders of Series S Shares are not required to elect to convert all or any part of their Series S Shares into Series R Shares.

As provided in the share conditions of the Series S Shares, (i) if Brookfield determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series R Shares outstanding after September 30, 2021, all remaining Series S Shares will be automatically converted into Series R Shares on a one-for-one basis effective September 30, 2021; and (ii) if Brookfield determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series R Shares outstanding after September 30, 2021, no Series S Shares will be permitted to be converted into Series R Shares. There are currently 1,116,575 Series S Shares outstanding.

BPO.PR.R was issued as a 5.10%+348 FixedReset that commenced trading 2011-9-2 after being announced 2011-8-25. The issue reset to 4.155% in 2016 and there was an 11% conversion to the FloatingReset BPO.PR.S.

BPO.PR.S is a FloatingReset, Bills+348, that arose via a partial conversion from BPO.PR.R in 2016.