BCE Inc. has released the conversion notice for BCE.PR.Z (Fixed-Floater) and a matching notice for BCE.PR.Y (Ratchet Rate).
These issues constitute a Strong Pair.
The effective date of the interconversion is 2017-12-1. The deadline for instructing the company to convert shares is 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on November 17, 2017 – but note that brokers serving the public will probably have internal deadlines a day or two in advance of this. The new dividend rate on BCE.PR.Z will be published 2017-11-14.
The outstanding shares of BCE.PR.Z have paid 3.152% since the last conversion in 2012. Prime was at 3.00% when the last conversion was effective … just 20bp lower than the current rate!
These shares are trading at very nearly the same price … alas, there isn’t much of an arbitrage possibility here!
I will post more when the fixed rate (for the next five years) is known.
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BCE.PR.Z / BCE.PR.Y Conversion Notice Sent
BCE Inc. has released the conversion notice for BCE.PR.Z (Fixed-Floater) and a matching notice for BCE.PR.Y (Ratchet Rate).
These issues constitute a Strong Pair.
The effective date of the interconversion is 2017-12-1. The deadline for instructing the company to convert shares is 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on November 17, 2017 – but note that brokers serving the public will probably have internal deadlines a day or two in advance of this. The new dividend rate on BCE.PR.Z will be published 2017-11-14.
The outstanding shares of BCE.PR.Z have paid 3.152% since the last conversion in 2012. Prime was at 3.00% when the last conversion was effective … just 20bp lower than the current rate!
These shares are trading at very nearly the same price … alas, there isn’t much of an arbitrage possibility here!
I will post more when the fixed rate (for the next five years) is known.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 at 11:36 pm and is filed under Issue Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.