September 15, 2009

Remember the world’s worst bond fund? I discussed it on February 15, 2008. Now the sponsor has received a comeuppance:

Former Chicago Bull Horace Grant won a $1.46 million arbitration award against Morgan Keegan & Co. for losses in some bond mutual funds, the largest victory against the brokerage firm to date for his Chicago-based lawyer.

The award, announced Friday, represents nearly all of the unrealized losses Grant allegedly suffered as of January 2008, said his attorney, Andrew Stoltmann.

The brokerage firm, a unit of Regions Financial Corp., a bank based in Birmingham, Ala., faces a flood of arbitration claims from investors related to its high-yield bond funds. Investors in the funds reportedly lost more than $2 billion in 2007.

PerpetualDiscounts halted their recent slide today, gaining 3bp, but were outperformed by FixedResets which were up 15bp. Volume was quite good but there wasn’t much price volatility.

The Financial Post has updated its calendar and is again providing a timely block trade report.

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 -0.5915 % 1,447.3
FixedFloater 5.73 % 3.99 % 56,454 18.61 1 0.4762 % 2,681.7
Floater 2.53 % 2.12 % 31,269 22.15 4 -0.5915 % 1,808.1
OpRet 4.87 % -13.00 % 136,002 0.09 15 -0.0051 % 2,284.6
SplitShare 6.42 % 6.46 % 965,031 4.05 2 -0.2870 % 2,059.4
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0051 % 2,089.1
Perpetual-Premium 5.77 % 5.66 % 148,538 2.84 12 -0.0198 % 1,878.8
Perpetual-Discount 5.72 % 5.77 % 197,303 14.19 59 0.0307 % 1,797.4
FixedReset 5.49 % 4.03 % 464,161 4.08 40 0.1541 % 2,111.8
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
GWO.PR.I Perpetual-Discount -1.43 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 19.35
Evaluated at bid price : 19.35
Bid-YTW : 5.84 %
SLF.PR.E Perpetual-Discount -1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 19.10
Evaluated at bid price : 19.10
Bid-YTW : 5.92 %
TRI.PR.B Floater -1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 18.51
Evaluated at bid price : 18.51
Bid-YTW : 2.12 %
TD.PR.S FixedReset 1.11 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2013-08-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.30
Bid-YTW : 3.71 %
RY.PR.W Perpetual-Discount 1.29 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 22.67
Evaluated at bid price : 22.85
Bid-YTW : 5.41 %
ELF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount 1.58 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 21.25
Evaluated at bid price : 21.25
Bid-YTW : 6.36 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
CIU.PR.B FixedReset 351,450 Desjardins crossed 50,000 at 28.10; RBC crossed 100,000 at the same price; then they each crossed 50,000 at the same price; finally, Nesbitt crossed 50,000 at 28.00 and another 50,000 at 28.05.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-07-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 28.01
Bid-YTW : 4.03 %
BAM.PR.B Floater 112,995 Scotia bought 10,000 from TD at 12.50; Nesbitt bought 17,000 from TD at the same price; then Nesbitt crossed two blocks, 25,000 and 23,500 shares, both at 12.55.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 12.47
Evaluated at bid price : 12.47
Bid-YTW : 3.15 %
BNS.PR.T FixedReset 69,720 National crossed 13,000 at 27.85, then another 10,000 at the same price. Nesbitt crossed 25,000 at 27.82.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-05-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 27.81
Bid-YTW : 3.85 %
BAM.PR.P FixedReset 63,765 Nesbitt crossed 50,000 at 26.50.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-10-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.56
Bid-YTW : 5.56 %
BNS.PR.Q FixedReset 43,353 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-09-15
Maturity Price : 23.50
Evaluated at bid price : 25.90
Bid-YTW : 4.05 %
CM.PR.L FixedReset 35,234 RBC crossed 23,200 at 27.85.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-05-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 27.85
Bid-YTW : 4.06 %
There were 46 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.

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