Market Action

June 5, 2026

Jobs, jobs, jobs!

The US labor market appears to have found its footing: The economy added 172,000 jobs in May, shattering expectations, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday.

The latest jobs report provided some reassurance that the US labor market may be stabilizing after a year of weak and stilted job growth: Unemployment held steady at 4.3%, while employment gains topped 100,000 for the third consecutive month, a pattern not seen since early 2024.

Job growth was also far stronger than initially thought in recent months. March’s payroll gains were revised up by 29,000 to 214,000, while April’s tally was revised higher by 64,000 to 179,000 jobs added.

Annual wage growth slowed to 3.4% in May from 3.6% the month before. Based on the latest projections for the May Consumer Price Index, which is due out next week, pay gains could be running nearly 1 percentage point below inflation.

Leisure and hospitality added an estimated 70,000 jobs in May, more than double the gains in April for the industry; the government sector added 52,000 jobs (with local government roles that exclude education accounting for 43,500 of those); and healthcare and social assistance added 47,200 jobs.

And in the Frozen North:

Canada’s economy added 87,800 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 6.6% in May, data showed on Friday, defying widespread expectations of only modest employment growth and showing some resilience despite signs of softer economic growth.

The May data marked the first job growth of 2026 and helped wipe out almost 80 per cent of all job losses posted since the start of the year.

Statscan said the construction sector added a net 26,800 jobs, the information, culture and recreation sector saw a gain of 19,300 jobs, transportation and warehousing employment grew by 18,700 jobs and accommodation and food services gained 17,000 jobs.

The wholesale and retail trade sector, which accounts for almost 14 per cent of the total employed workforce, posted a decline of 35,000 positions.

The job growth last month was concentrated entirely in full-time jobs, which saw a net addition of 154,000 in May, reversing almost all of the first four months of net job losses in that category, StatsCan said. Part-time employment fell by 66,200 positions.

Average hourly wages of permanent employees, a metric closely tracked by the Bank of Canada to gauge inflation expectations, grew 3.2 per cent in May, a sharp decline from 4.8 per cent in April.

.The markets say; the markets judged:

Wall Street’s nine-week winning streak ended with a thud on Friday, as red-hot technology stocks suffered their largest daily decline since April 2025 after a hot May jobs report fueled fears of a hawkish policy pivot from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Selling was concentrated among chip stocks and other technology favorites that have surged ⁠higher in ​recent weeks as the Nasdaq Composite Index and S&P 500 rose repeatedly to fresh highs.

Financial markets are pricing in a ​42.7% likelihood of a rate hike at the conclusion of the Fed’s December meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.

U.S. Treasury ‌yields surged ​following the report, with the yield on ‌the 2-year note, which typically moves in step with Fed rate expectations, hitting a 15-month high. It ​was at 4.147% by late afternoon.

Canadian bond yields were also up sharply for the session. Canada’s employment report showed the economy adding 87,800 jobs last month, wiping out ⁠much of the declines posted since the start of the year.

Investors are now pricing in roughly 40 basis points of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Canada through the end of the year, up from ⁠34 basis points before the data. Economists aren’t so convinced: a Reuters poll released Friday showed they expect no change in rates this year, including at a policy decision next Wednesday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 695.15 points, or 1.35%, to 50,866.78, the S&P 500 shed 200.57 points, or 2.64%, to 7,383.74 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1,121.53 points, or 4.18%, to 25,709.43.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index ended down 803.61 points at 34,413.45, pulling back from a ‌record closing high on Thursday and marking its biggest decline since February 12. For the week, the index was down 1%.

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 5.61 % 5.98 % 28,065 14.87 1 1.0951 % 2,617.0
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.1401 % 4,960.4
Floater 5.49 % 5.72 % 38,277 14.25 3 1.1401 % 2,858.7
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0951 % 3,638.8
SplitShare 4.79 % 4.38 % 51,252 2.78 5 0.0951 % 4,345.5
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0951 % 3,390.5
Perpetual-Premium 5.68 % 5.70 % 81,791 14.08 7 0.0907 % 3,071.8
Perpetual-Discount 5.59 % 5.64 % 43,564 14.40 28 -0.0251 % 3,375.4
FixedReset Disc 5.61 % 5.88 % 130,852 13.91 19 0.0340 % 3,316.2
Insurance Straight 5.48 % 5.56 % 46,829 14.60 22 0.2005 % 3,289.2
FloatingReset 4.64 % 4.65 % 24,159 16.22 1 0.0501 % 4,099.4
FixedReset Prem 5.93 % 4.71 % 82,366 2.28 29 -0.0535 % 2,650.7
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0340 % 3,389.9
FixedReset Ins Non 5.11 % 5.31 % 73,771 14.55 14 0.0713 % 3,230.8
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount -1.77 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.58
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 5.53 %
ENB.PR.D FixedReset Disc -1.75 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.86
Evaluated at bid price : 22.40
Bid-YTW : 6.14 %
CU.PR.D Perpetual-Discount -1.74 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.76
Evaluated at bid price : 22.01
Bid-YTW : 5.59 %
IFC.PR.A FixedReset Ins Non -1.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 22.46
Evaluated at bid price : 22.84
Bid-YTW : 5.37 %
BN.PF.K Ratchet 1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 22.00
Evaluated at bid price : 17.54
Bid-YTW : 5.98 %
PWF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount 1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.21
Evaluated at bid price : 23.51
Bid-YTW : 5.64 %
ENB.PR.Y FixedReset Disc 1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 22.16
Evaluated at bid price : 22.60
Bid-YTW : 6.06 %
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight 1.25 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.70
Evaluated at bid price : 21.95
Bid-YTW : 5.12 %
BN.PR.B Floater 1.47 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 13.85
Evaluated at bid price : 13.85
Bid-YTW : 5.73 %
ENB.PR.J FixedReset Disc 1.48 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.04
Evaluated at bid price : 24.05
Bid-YTW : 5.97 %
BN.PR.K Floater 2.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 13.87
Evaluated at bid price : 13.87
Bid-YTW : 5.72 %
PWF.PR.S Perpetual-Discount 2.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.47
Evaluated at bid price : 21.73
Bid-YTW : 5.58 %
SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight 2.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.52
Evaluated at bid price : 21.78
Bid-YTW : 5.10 %
MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non 2.84 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.37
Evaluated at bid price : 24.99
Bid-YTW : 5.30 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
ENB.PF.C FixedReset Disc 47,560 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 22.69
Evaluated at bid price : 23.60
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %
FTS.PR.M FixedReset Prem 36,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-12-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.13
Bid-YTW : 5.38 %
MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non 31,700 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.26
Evaluated at bid price : 24.87
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non 27,900 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-09-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.65
Bid-YTW : 5.05 %
BN.PF.J FixedReset Prem 18,582 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2027-12-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.93
Bid-YTW : 4.52 %
CU.PR.C FixedReset Prem 17,521 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2027-06-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 5.29 %
There were 5 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
See TMX DataLinx: ‘Last’ != ‘Close’ and the posts linked therein for an idea of why these quotes are so horrible.
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
ENB.PF.E FixedReset Disc Quote: 23.05 – 24.70
Spot Rate : 1.6500
Average : 1.3304

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 22.37
Evaluated at bid price : 23.05
Bid-YTW : 6.18 %

ENB.PR.D FixedReset Disc Quote: 22.40 – 23.00
Spot Rate : 0.6000
Average : 0.4001

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.86
Evaluated at bid price : 22.40
Bid-YTW : 6.14 %

GWO.PR.M Insurance Straight Quote: 25.55 – 26.32
Spot Rate : 0.7700
Average : 0.6228

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2026-07-05
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.55
Bid-YTW : -23.97 %

CU.PR.D Perpetual-Discount Quote: 22.01 – 22.49
Spot Rate : 0.4800
Average : 0.3538

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 21.76
Evaluated at bid price : 22.01
Bid-YTW : 5.59 %

GWO.PR.P Insurance Straight Quote: 23.95 – 24.74
Spot Rate : 0.7900
Average : 0.6717

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.68
Evaluated at bid price : 23.95
Bid-YTW : 5.63 %

CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount Quote: 23.85 – 24.65
Spot Rate : 0.8000
Average : 0.6834

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-05
Maturity Price : 23.58
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 5.53 %

Issue Comments

SBC.PR.A Upgraded to Pfd-3(high) by DBRS

DBRS has announced that it:

upgrades the credit rating on the Preferred Shares issued by Brompton Split Banc Corp. (the Company) to Pfd-3 (high) from Pfd-3. The rating upgrade reflects continued improvement in the downside protection of the Preferred Shares over the past three years, supported by dividend coverage exceeding 1.0 times (x). Brompton Funds Limited is the manager (the Manager).

The Company invests, on an approximately equally weighted basis in a portfolio of common shares (the Portfolio) of the six largest Canadian banks. Holdings in the six largest Canadian banks will generally be equal-weighted at each rebalancing of the Portfolio, but the Company may, at the Manager’s discretion, hold non-equal-weight positions. Also, the Company may hold up to 10% of the total assets of the Portfolio in investments in global financial companies for the purposes of enhanced diversification and return potential, at the discretion of the Manager. In addition to, or instead of, investing in Canadian banks and/or global financial companies directly, the Company may invest, at the Manager’s discretion, a portion of the Portfolio’s assets in exchange-traded funds, including exchange-traded funds managed by the Manager. There will be no duplication of management fees payable by the Company in connection with any investment by the Company in exchange-traded funds managed by the Manager. As of April 30, 2026, the Portfolio holdings were as follows: The Toronto-Dominion Bank (15.4%), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (15.4%), National Bank of Canada (15.4%), The Bank of Nova Scotia (15.2%), Royal Bank of Canada (15.0%), Bank of Montreal (14.9%) and Brompton North American Financials Dividend ETF (8.8%).

The Portfolio may contain the common shares of less than six Canadian banks as a result of the impact of a merger, acquisition or other significant corporate actions or events affecting one or more of the Canadian banks in the Portfolio. The Manager may, at its discretion, selectively write covered call options and cash covered put options from time to time in respect of the securities included in the Portfolio in order to generate additional distributable income for the Company. The Company also hedges substantially all of its foreign currency exposure to the holdings in the Portfolio back to the Canadian dollar, if any.

Distributions on the Preferred Shares are made quarterly in the amount of $0.15625, yielding 6.25% annually on the original $10.0 issue price. Distributions on the Class A Shares are made monthly in the amount of $0.10 per share. No monthly distributions to the Class A Shares will be made if distributions to the Preferred Shares are in arrears or the net asset value (NAV) per unit (a unit means a notional unit consisting of one Preferred Share and one Class A Share) falls below $15.0. The Company’s NAV has stayed above $15.00 during the last 12 months resulting in the Company declaring cash distributions of $1.20 per Class A Share during that period.

All Preferred Shares and Class A Shares are scheduled to be redeemed by the Company on November 29, 2027, unless the term of the Company is extended. The board of directors may extend the term of the Company and the shares by successive terms of up to five years, provided that shareholders are given an optional retraction at the end of each successive term. On maturity, the holders of the Preferred Shares will be entitled to the value of the Company up to the face value of the Preferred Shares in priority to the holders of the Class A Shares. Holders of the Class A Shares will receive the remaining value of the Company.

On October 6, 2025 and February 12, 2026, the Company announced two stock splits of its Class A Shares (Stock Splits). Pursuant to the October 6, 2025 announcement, shareholders of record as of the close of business on October 27, 2025 received 17 additional Class A Shares for every 100 shares held. Pursuant to the February 12, 2026 announcement, shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 24, 2026 received 20 additional Class A Shares for every 100 shares held.

As of May 28, 2026, the downside protection available to holders of the Preferred Shares increased to 59.3% from 52.8% as of May 31, 2025. The dividend coverage ratio slightly declined to 1.1x compared with the prior year but remained above 1.0x, reflecting the consistent dividend yield generated by the Portfolio holdings. To supplement the Portfolio income, the Company may engage in securities lending or covered call option writing on the shares held in the Portfolio. Without giving consideration to capital appreciation potential or any source of income other than the dividends earned by the Portfolio, the current distributions on the Class A Shares will create a projected grind on the NAV of the Portfolio of approximately 5.6% per year over the next 5 years.

Considering the increase in the amount of downside protection, dividend coverage above 1.0x, the Portfolio concentration in one industry, remaining term, Stock Splits and the projected Portfolio grind, Morningstar DBRS upgraded the credit rating on the Preferred Shares to Pfd-3 (high) from Pfd-3.

The main constraints to the credit rating are as follows:

(1) Volatility of price and changes in the dividend policies of the underlying issuers may result in significant reductions in the Preferred Shares’ dividend coverage or downside protection from time to time.

(2) The Company relies on the Portfolio manager to generate additional income, through option writing, to meet distributions and other trust expenses without having to liquidate the portfolio’s securities.

(3) Stated monthly distributions on the Class A Shares will likely create a grind on the portfolio. This risk is mitigated by an asset coverage test of 1.5x that ensures sufficient levels of downside protection to the holders of the Preferred Shares.

Morningstar DBRS’ credit ratings on the applicable classes address the credit risk associated with the identified financial obligations in accordance with the relevant transaction documents. Where applicable, a description of these financial obligations can be found in the transactions’ respective press releases at issuance.

This happens despite two Capital Unit splits in quick succession, in February 2026 and October 2025.

MAPF

MAPF Performance: May, 2026

Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund’s Net Asset Value per Unit as of the close May 29, 2026, was $10.9319.

Fund returns were adversely affected by PWF.PF.A (-1.54%), FFH.PR.K (+0.04% following last month’s underperformance) and SLF.PR.D (+1.09% following last month’s outperformance) but benefitted from good performance by IFC.PR.A (+4.00% following last month’s underperformance), ENB.PR.B (+5.09% following last month’s outperformance) and TRP.PR.B (+5.89%); small holdings are not considered for individual mention here.

So anyway, I want to tell you a war story but I have to introduce it first. There is one infallible way of telling whether a Portfolio Manager is a clown or not. If he’s a clown, he will try to persuade you that he’s good by telling you a war story … ‘We got our clients into Nvidia at $50 because we foresaw … blah-blah-blah’.

A good Portfolio Manager will eschew war stories since they don’t mean anything. A good PM will say something more like … ‘Here’s our historical composite performance, annualized on a rolling basis since we started. Don’t look at the one-year returns … we get into the first quartile more often than we should, but the first quartile is dominated by guys who bought a winning lottery ticket. Look at the five-year returns and run your finger down that column to check how consistent they are against the index with all the different annual end-dates. Ten-years is better, but there’s not as much data, of course …’

The first story is exciting and fits into the way Joe Lunchbucket thinks the market works. The second story is boring, which is why clowns dominate the industry.

So, that being said, I’m going to tell you a war story – not to try to prove I’m good, but to illustrate just how hopelessly inefficient the preferred share market is and just how extreme things can get at the margins.

Readers who indefatigably plough through these reports (and the ones in PrefLetter) will remember that I’ve been complaining basically every month for a long time about how BPO has been screwing up the regressions by performing so well (y axis) with a relatively consistent set of attributes (x axis) – BPO is having a long recovery from its near death (according to the market) experience a few year’s back (see the post BPO Downgraded to P-4 by S&P and ensuing discussion in the comments). Long term price charts (like here for example) are most entertaining.

So when the fund sold BPO.PR.A in May to buy BPO.PR.E, paying up about $0.95, I had a look to see how the BPO.PR.As got into inventory. It turns out I bought them in January … selling BPO.PR.E and taking out … about $2.90.

That’s wild. It’s not an unusual story for the fund, but usually with a much smaller difference between the relative prices!

FixedResets are now yielding more than PerpetualDiscounts due largely to the large increase in the GOC-5 yield used to estimate future reset rates; on May 29, I reported median YTWs of 5.77% and 5.68%, respectively, for these two indices; compare with mean Current Yields of 5.60% and 5.61%, respectively.

Returns to May 29, 2026
Period MAPF TXPR*
Total Return
CPD – according to RBCGAM
One Month +1.84% +1.56% +%
Three Months +3.68% +3.15% +%
One Year +19.91% +16.11% +%
Two Years (annualized) +17.99% +15.04% N/A
Three Years (annualized) +24.26% +17.42% +%
Four Years (annualized) +11.89% +8.35% N/A
Five Years (annualized) +9.72% +6.44% +%
Six Years (annualized) +18.34% +11.72% N/A
Seven Years (annualized) +12.43% +8.32% N/A
Eight Years (annualized) +8.13% +5.86% N/A
Nine Years (annualized) +8.98% +6.08% N/A
Ten Years (annualized) +10.24% +7.01% +%
Eleven Years (annualized) +7.60% +5.14%  
Twelve Years (annualized) +6.79% +4.42%  
Thirteen Years (annualized) +6.46% +4.06%  
Fourteen Years (annualized) +6.70% +4.17%  
Fifteen Years (annualized) +6.20% +4.11%  
Sixteen Years (annualized) +7.40% +4.72%  
Seventeen Years (annualized) +8.11% +4.93%  
Eighteen Years (annualized) +9.07% +4.33%  
Nineteen Years (annualized) +8.73%    
Twenty Years (annualized) +8.55%    
Twenty-One Years (annualized) +8.39%    
Twenty-Two Years (annualized) +8.47%    
Twenty-Three Years (annualized) +9.00%    
Twenty-Four Years (annualized) +8.89%    
Twenty-Five Years (annualized) +9.18%    
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.
All fund and ETF returns shown below are after all fees and expenses
Figures for NBI Preferred Equity Income Fund, Series F [NBC780] (formerly Omega Preferred Equity) (which are after all fees and expenses) for 1-, 3- and 12-months are +%, +% and +%, respectively, according to National Bank Investments after all fees & expenses. Three year performance is %; five year is +%; ten year is +%.

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 GlobalX Active Preferred Share ETF (HPR) (which are after all fees and expenses) for 1-, 3- and 12-months are +%, +% & +%, respectively. Three year performance is +%, five-year is +%, ten year is +%
Figures for NBI Preferred Equity Fund Series F [NBC710] (formerly Altamira Preferred Equity Fund) are +%, +% and +% for one-, three- and twelve months, respectively. Three year performance is +%; five-year is +%; ten-year is +%

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 Laddered Preferred Share Index ETF (ZPR) is +% for the past twelve months. Two year performance is +%, three year is +%, five year is +%, ten year is +%

Note that analysis of ZPR shows some doubt as to whether this fund is either "laddered" or an "index fund". However, there was a remarkable improvement in the laddering in the six months following the publication of my analysis.

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) are not available as the fund has been terminated. This is as per an announcement by the bank on 2024-5-28. The last performance report for this awful fund was as of July 31, 2024.
Figures for PowerShares Canadian Preferred Share Index Class, Series F (PPS) are no longer available since the fund has been terminated. Performance was last reported for the fund to month-end, March 2023
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 +%, +% and +% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Three year performance is +%, five-year is +%, ten-year is +%.
Figures for the Desjardins Canadian Preferred Share Fund F Class (F Class), as reported by the company are +%, +% and +% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Two year performance is +%, three-year is +%, five-year is +%, ten-year is +%
Figures for the RBC Canadian Preferred Share ETF (RPF) are reported as +%, +% and +% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Three-year performance is +%, five-year is +%
Figures for the Dynamic Active Preferred Shares ETF (DXP) are +%, +% and +% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Three-year performance is +%; five-year is +%
Figures for the Purpose Canadian Preferred Share Fund (Class F) are +%, +% and +% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Three-year performance is +%; four-year is +%; five-year is +%; seven-year is +%; ten-year is +%.
Figures for the TD Active Preferred Share ETF (TPRF) are +%, +% and +% for the past one, three and twelve months, respectively. Two-year performance is +%, three-year is +%; five-year is +%.

Note that “The TD ETF may also hold common shares, government and corporate bonds, and other income-producing securities. … The TD ETF may invest in foreign securities to an extent that will vary from time to time but is not typically expected to exceed 5% of its assets at the time that foreign securities are purchased.

The non-preferred share components of the portfolio are relatively minor – as of their year-end 2023 report, they had $1.6-million in Canadian Natural Resources Limited common, $1.8-million in RBC common, $1.6-million in SLF common, and $1.75-million in Fortis common, totalling $6.75-million in a $220-million portfolio.

I take the view that the purpose of this mandate is to destroy, or at least deprecate, comparability. Banks hate comparability.

So at the time of initial writing (2026-05-03) none of the comparator funds have published returns to May month-end. I will, as usual, have to attempt to fill in the blanks prior to publishing the June PrefLetter. Remember, readers, if you want customer service, you have to go to a big firm like Hymas Investment Management Inc. – if you go to some tiny outfit like Royal Bank, you’ll find that they simply do not have the resources to publish returns promptly after each applicable month-end. They have published their prices, most of them: updating the performance numbers to reflect these data would be trivial programming work – if they cared to do it.

The five-year Canada yield was virtually unchanged over the month, with the five-year Canada yield (“GOC-5”) moving from 3.11% at April month-end to 3.12% at May month-end (not without some interesting variability along the way!) and 3-month bills unchanged at 2.30% over the month.

The Seniority Spread (between long-term corporate bonds and interest-equivalent PerpetualDiscounts) was 245bp on 2026-05-27, widening slightly (and perhaps spuriously) from 240bp on 2026-05-09 (chart end-date 2026-05-08)

The situation with FixedResets is interesting, with the spread between GOC-5 and the interest-adjusted FixedReset (Discount) rate widening significantly (despite recent narrowing) from its 2021-11-10 low of 344bp to a level of 439bp (as of 2026-5-27)… (chart end-date 2026-05-08):

…while at the same time the interest-equivalent spread between FixedReset (Discounts) and PerpetualDiscounts has narrowed to -13bp (as of 2026-05-27) from its 2021-7-28 level of +170bp (chart end-date 2026-05-08):

There is no correlation between the Issue Reset Spread and 1-month performance for discounted FixedResets for the Pfd-2 Group or for the Pfd-3 Group issues

There is a correlation for the Pfd-2 group (42%) but none for the Pfd-3 group between the Issue Reset Spread and 3-month performance for discounted FixedResets

There is no correlation for either the Pfd-2 Group or the Pfd-3 Group:

… but the three-month returns vs. Term to Reset show a correlation for the Pfd-2 Group(20%) but none for the Pfd-3 Group.

It should be noted that to some extent a dependence (of performance on term-to-reset) can be justified as the nearer-term issues will receive the benefit (adverse effects) of higher (lower) projected dividend rates sooner as a result of higher GOC-5 yields and therefore, perhaps, for longer. Equations for the relationship between correlation slope and change in GOC-5 were derived in the August 2022 PrefLetter.

Upward-sloping correlations of Performance vs. Term are to be expected when GOC-5 declines.

I keep talking about ‘Sustainable Income’ when discussing the fund’s income projections. This is because Sustainable Income is the average yield-to-worst (YTW) of the portfolio when the YTW is calculated to perpetuity (or to redemption, of course, if the yield to redemption is lower), including resets at the current GOC-5 rate. The sharp increase in GOC-5 in the past few years caused the difference between YTW and Current Yield to skyrocket, but these two values have become much closer. We have to wait for the reset date of the MAPF portfolio securities before we see a change in actual cash receipts – and, of course, there is no guarantee whatsoever that the rate used for estimation purposes now will be used for the actual calculation in the future (chart prepared as of 2026-05-08).

I will note that the fund’s current holdings of FixedResets are now paying dividends based on their previous reset at an average GOC-5 rate of 2.70% (for discounted FixedResets only, weighted by shares held), about 40bp below the current rate used for projections.

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% 1.552 0.3006
September 9.1489 5.35% 0.98 5.46% 1.552 0.3219
December, 2007 9.007 5.53% 0.942 5.87% 1.552 0.3407
March, 2008 8.8512 6.17% 1.047 5.89% 1.552 0.3359
June 8.3419 6.03% 0.952 6.34% 1.552 0.3407
September 8.1886 7.11% 0.969 7.34% 1.552 0.387
December, 2008 8.0464 9.24% 1.008 9.17% 1.552 0.4752
Mar, 2009 $8.83 8.60% 0.995 8.80% 1.552 0.5009
June 10.9846 7.05% 0.999 7.06% 1.552 0.4995
September 12.3462 6.03% 0.998 6.04% 1.552 0.4806
December, 2009 10.5662 5.74% 0.981 5.85% 1.306 0.4734
March, 2010 10.2497 6.03% 0.992 6.08% 1.306 0.4771
June 10.577 5.96% 0.996 5.98% 1.306 0.4846
September 11.3901 5.43% 0.98 5.54% 1.306 0.4832
December, 2010 10.7659 5.37% 0.993 5.41% 1.207 0.4824
March, 2011 11.056 6.00% 0.994 5.96% 1.207 0.5463
June 11.1194 5.87% 1.018 5.98% 1.207 0.5505
September 10.2709 6.10% 1.001 6.11% 1.207 0.5196
December, 2011 10.0793 5.63% 1.031 5.81% 1.172 0.4992
March, 2012 10.3944 5.13% 0.996 5.11% 1.172 0.4531
June 10.2151 5.32% 1.012 5.38% 1.172 0.4693
September 10.6703 4.61% 0.997 4.62% 1.172 0.421
December, 2012 10.8307 4.24% 0.989 4.29% 1.172 0.3962
March, 2013 10.9033 3.87% 0.996 3.89% 1.172 0.3615
June 10.3261 4.81% 0.998 4.80% 1.172 0.4229
September 10.0296 5.62% 0.996 5.64% 1.172 0.4829
December, 2013 9.8717 6.02% 1.008 5.97% 1.172 0.503
March, 2014 10.2233 5.55% 0.998 5.56% 1.172 0.4851
June 10.5877 5.09% 0.998 5.10% 1.172 0.4607
September 10.4601 5.28% 0.997 5.30% 1.172 0.4727
December, 2014 10.5701 4.83% 1.009 4.79% 1.172 0.4317
March, 2015 9.9573 4.99% 1.001 4.99% 1.172 0.4235
June 9.4181 5.55% 1.002 5.54% 1.172 0.4451
September 7.814 6.98% 0.999 6.99% 1.172 0.4658
December, 2015 8.1379 6.85% 0.997 6.87% 1.172 0.4771
March, 2016 7.4416 7.79% 0.998 7.81% 1.172 0.4956
June 7.6704 7.67% 1.011 7.59% 1.172 0.4965
September 8.059 7.35% 0.993 7.40% 1.172 0.509
December, 2016 8.5844 7.24% 0.99 7.31% 1.172 0.5356
March, 2017 9.3984 6.26% 0.994 6.30% 1.172 0.505
June 9.5313 6.41% 0.998 6.42% 1.172 0.5224
September 9.7129 6.56% 0.998 6.57% 1.172 0.5447
December, 2017 10.0566 6.06% 1.004 6.04% 1.172 0.5179
March, 2018 10.2701 6.22% 1.007 6.18% 1.172 0.5413
June 10.2518 6.22% 0.995 6.25% 1.172 0.5468
September 10.2965 6.62% 1.018 6.50% 1.172 0.5713
December, 2018 8.6875 7.16% 0.997 7.18% 1.172 0.5324
March, 2019 8.4778 7.09% 1.007 7.04% 1.172 0.5093
June 8.0896 7.33% 0.996 7.36% 1.172 0.5079
September 7.7948 7.96% 0.998 7.98% 1.172 0.5305
December, 2019 8.09 6.03% 0.995 6.06% 1.172 0.4183
March 5.5596 7.04% 1.006 7.00% 1.172 0.332
June 6.3568 6.10% 0.99 6.16% 1.172 0.3342
September 7.2852 5.32% 1 5.32% 1.172 0.3307
December, 2020 8.3947 4.46% 0.999 4.46% 1.172 0.3197
March, 2021 9.6473 4.48% 0.996 4.50% 1.172 0.3703
June 10.3712 3.92% 0.985 3.98% 1.172 0.3522
September 10.7572 4.08% 1.017 4.01% 1.172 0.3682
December, 2021 10.7432 4.31% 0.999 4.31% 1.172 0.3954
March, 2022 10.504 5.53% 1.004 5.51% 1.172 0.4937
June 9.3115 7.04% 0.993 7.09% 1.172 0.5633
September 8.4093 8.10% 0.997 8.12% 1.172 0.5829
December, 2022 7.9921 8.47% 0.996 8.50% 1.172 0.5799
March, 2023 8.0788 7.90% 0.997 7.92% 1.172 0.5462
June 8.0197 9.19% 1.003 9.16% 1.172 0.627
September 7.9922 9.86% 0.997 9.89% 1.172 0.6744
December, 2023 8.4715 8.14% 1.002 8.12% 1.172 0.5872
March,2024 9.5892 7.60% 1.006 7.56% 1.172 0.6181
June 9.8516 7.32% 0.999 7.33% 1.172 0.6159
September 10.3641 6.55% 0.99 6.62% 1.172 0.5851
December, 2024 11.0142 6.44% 0.992 6.49% 1.172 0.6101
March,2025 10.8891 6.22% 0.993 6.26% 1.172 0.582
June 11.4529 6.10% 0.997 6.12% 1.172 0.5979
September 11.7912 5.78% 1.002 5.77% 1.172 0.5803
December, 2025 10.5056 5.61% 1.016 5.52% 1 0.5801
March, 2026 10.4455 5.59% 1.002 5.58% 1 0.5827
May, 2026 10.9319 5.44% 0.996 5.462% 1 0.5971
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%
March, 2021 0.94% 0.09%
June 0.93% 0.13%
September 1.07% 0.13%
December, 2021 1.31% 0.16%
March, 2022 2.44% 0.53%
June 3.24% 2.11%
September 3.45% 3.60%
December, 2022 3.37% 4.35%
March, 2023 2.93% 4.44%
June 3.74% 5.00%
September 4.31% 5.21%
December, 2023 3.21% 5.13%
March, 2024 3.55% 5.06%
June 3.41% 4.71%
September 2.74% 3.94%
December, 2024 3.02% 3.19%
March, 2025 2.64% 2.66%
June 2.85% 2.68%
September 2.75% 2.45%
December, 2025 2.93% 2.18%
March, 2026 3.13% 2.33%
May, 2026 3.12% 2.30%
Market Action

June 4, 2026

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 5.67 % 6.06 % 29,198 14.79 1 0.0000 % 2,588.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.5668 % 4,904.4
Floater 5.55 % 5.82 % 38,817 14.11 3 -0.5668 % 2,826.5
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2780 % 3,635.3
SplitShare 4.79 % 4.35 % 51,734 2.79 5 0.2780 % 4,341.4
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2780 % 3,387.3
Perpetual-Premium 5.69 % 5.57 % 85,058 6.56 7 -0.0453 % 3,069.0
Perpetual-Discount 5.58 % 5.65 % 44,292 14.38 28 0.2000 % 3,376.2
FixedReset Disc 5.61 % 5.87 % 130,135 13.92 19 -0.2689 % 3,315.1
Insurance Straight 5.49 % 5.56 % 46,143 14.57 22 -0.0813 % 3,282.6
FloatingReset 4.64 % 4.65 % 24,197 16.22 1 -0.6468 % 4,097.3
FixedReset Prem 5.92 % 4.70 % 78,917 2.28 29 -0.0013 % 2,652.1
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.2689 % 3,388.7
FixedReset Ins Non 5.12 % 5.35 % 74,487 14.45 14 0.0178 % 3,228.5
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non -3.38 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 23.10
Evaluated at bid price : 24.30
Bid-YTW : 5.48 %
ENB.PF.E FixedReset Disc -2.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.37
Evaluated at bid price : 23.05
Bid-YTW : 6.18 %
ENB.PR.Y FixedReset Disc -1.97 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 21.99
Evaluated at bid price : 22.35
Bid-YTW : 6.13 %
BN.PR.B Floater -1.80 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 13.65
Evaluated at bid price : 13.65
Bid-YTW : 5.82 %
SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.39 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 21.25
Evaluated at bid price : 21.25
Bid-YTW : 5.24 %
IFC.PR.F Insurance Straight -1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 23.63
Evaluated at bid price : 23.90
Bid-YTW : 5.64 %
PVS.PR.M SplitShare 1.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2031-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.40
Bid-YTW : 4.80 %
PWF.PR.L Perpetual-Discount 1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.71
Evaluated at bid price : 22.95
Bid-YTW : 5.62 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non 1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-09-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.65
Bid-YTW : 5.05 %
PWF.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount 1.32 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.76
Evaluated at bid price : 23.05
Bid-YTW : 5.65 %
MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non 1.44 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 21.11
Evaluated at bid price : 21.11
Bid-YTW : 5.39 %
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount 1.80 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 24.03
Evaluated at bid price : 24.28
Bid-YTW : 5.43 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
MFC.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non 93,425 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2027-09-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.60
Bid-YTW : 3.88 %
ENB.PF.E FixedReset Disc 47,950 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.37
Evaluated at bid price : 23.05
Bid-YTW : 6.18 %
BMO.PR.E FixedReset Prem 38,258 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-11-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.64
Bid-YTW : 4.10 %
ENB.PR.B FixedReset Disc 36,216 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 21.94
Evaluated at bid price : 22.50
Bid-YTW : 6.13 %
IFC.PR.C FixedReset Ins Non 34,080 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2026-09-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.15
Bid-YTW : 3.51 %
NA.PR.S FixedReset Prem 31,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-05-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.12
Bid-YTW : 4.70 %
There were 8 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
See TMX DataLinx: ‘Last’ != ‘Close’ and the posts linked therein for an idea of why these quotes are so horrible.
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
ENB.PF.E FixedReset Disc Quote: 23.05 – 24.70
Spot Rate : 1.6500
Average : 0.9800

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.37
Evaluated at bid price : 23.05
Bid-YTW : 6.18 %

MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 24.30 – 25.30
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.6900

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 23.10
Evaluated at bid price : 24.30
Bid-YTW : 5.48 %

SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight Quote: 21.25 – 21.95
Spot Rate : 0.7000
Average : 0.4961

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 21.25
Evaluated at bid price : 21.25
Bid-YTW : 5.24 %

GWO.PR.P Insurance Straight Quote: 24.00 – 24.74
Spot Rate : 0.7400
Average : 0.5420

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 23.69
Evaluated at bid price : 24.00
Bid-YTW : 5.62 %

PWF.PR.K Perpetual-Discount Quote: 22.36 – 22.88
Spot Rate : 0.5200
Average : 0.3574

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.08
Evaluated at bid price : 22.36
Bid-YTW : 5.59 %

GWO.PR.T Insurance Straight Quote: 23.20 – 25.00
Spot Rate : 1.8000
Average : 1.6468

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-04
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 23.20
Bid-YTW : 5.54 %

Market Action

June 3, 2026

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.68%, equivalent to 7.38% interest at the standard conversion factor of 1.3x. Long corporates yielded 4.86% on 2026-05-27. Therefore the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) has widened slightly (and perhaps spuriously) to 250bp from the 245bp reported May 27.

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 5.67 % 6.06 % 30,385 14.80 1 0.0000 % 2,588.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.3296 % 4,932.4
Floater 5.52 % 5.71 % 40,288 14.27 3 -0.3296 % 2,842.6
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.2140 % 3,625.3
SplitShare 4.81 % 4.44 % 53,555 2.79 5 -0.2140 % 4,329.3
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.2140 % 3,377.9
Perpetual-Premium 5.69 % 5.69 % 82,716 14.08 7 0.1645 % 3,070.4
Perpetual-Discount 5.60 % 5.68 % 44,780 14.33 28 0.1451 % 3,369.5
FixedReset Disc 5.60 % 5.87 % 130,933 13.93 19 -0.2525 % 3,324.0
Insurance Straight 5.49 % 5.56 % 46,646 14.57 22 0.5845 % 3,285.2
FloatingReset 4.61 % 4.62 % 25,161 16.28 1 0.7014 % 4,124.0
FixedReset Prem 5.92 % 4.74 % 79,682 2.28 29 0.0187 % 2,652.1
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.2525 % 3,397.8
FixedReset Ins Non 5.12 % 5.33 % 77,468 14.55 14 -0.2136 % 3,228.0
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
ENB.PR.B FixedReset Disc -3.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 21.81
Evaluated at bid price : 22.30
Bid-YTW : 6.19 %
BN.PR.K Floater -1.74 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 13.58
Evaluated at bid price : 13.58
Bid-YTW : 5.85 %
ENB.PR.H FixedReset Disc -1.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.03
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 5.62 %
MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non -1.42 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 20.81
Evaluated at bid price : 20.81
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non -1.40 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.63
Evaluated at bid price : 25.34
Bid-YTW : 5.33 %
ENB.PR.T FixedReset Disc -1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.19
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 5.85 %
FTS.PR.H FixedReset Disc -1.19 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 20.75
Evaluated at bid price : 20.75
Bid-YTW : 5.43 %
SLF.PR.H FixedReset Ins Non -1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.69
Evaluated at bid price : 24.52
Bid-YTW : 5.32 %
GWO.PR.R Insurance Straight -1.11 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 21.40
Evaluated at bid price : 21.40
Bid-YTW : 5.62 %
IFC.PR.F Insurance Straight 1.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.88
Evaluated at bid price : 24.15
Bid-YTW : 5.57 %
GWO.PR.S Insurance Straight 1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 22.99
Evaluated at bid price : 23.26
Bid-YTW : 5.64 %
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight 1.31 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 21.42
Evaluated at bid price : 21.68
Bid-YTW : 5.18 %
IFC.PR.K Insurance Straight 2.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.41
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 5.58 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non 2.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 19.95
Evaluated at bid price : 19.95
Bid-YTW : 5.44 %
BN.PF.C Perpetual-Discount 2.93 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 21.10
Evaluated at bid price : 21.10
Bid-YTW : 5.86 %
GWO.PR.G Insurance Straight 3.11 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 23.21
Bid-YTW : 5.60 %
GWO.PR.T Insurance Straight 3.25 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 22.91
Evaluated at bid price : 23.18
Bid-YTW : 5.55 %
ENB.PR.F FixedReset Disc 3.35 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.44
Evaluated at bid price : 23.77
Bid-YTW : 5.94 %
GWO.PR.H Insurance Straight 3.62 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 21.49
Evaluated at bid price : 21.75
Bid-YTW : 5.57 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
CM.PR.S FixedReset Prem 34,784 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.86
Bid-YTW : 4.07 %
MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non 22,298 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 20.81
Evaluated at bid price : 20.81
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %
NA.PR.I FixedReset Prem 15,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-05-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.46
Bid-YTW : 4.82 %
ENB.PR.H FixedReset Disc 15,340 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.03
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 5.62 %
BN.PR.K Floater 12,215 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 13.58
Evaluated at bid price : 13.58
Bid-YTW : 5.85 %
There were 0 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
See TMX DataLinx: ‘Last’ != ‘Close’ and the posts linked therein for an idea of why these quotes are so horrible.
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
ENB.PR.B FixedReset Disc Quote: 22.30 – 23.15
Spot Rate : 0.8500
Average : 0.5801

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 21.81
Evaluated at bid price : 22.30
Bid-YTW : 6.19 %

MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 20.81 – 21.40
Spot Rate : 0.5900
Average : 0.4139

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 20.81
Evaluated at bid price : 20.81
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %

POW.PR.B Perpetual-Discount Quote: 24.00 – 24.39
Spot Rate : 0.3900
Average : 0.2621

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 23.69
Evaluated at bid price : 24.00
Bid-YTW : 5.65 %

IFC.PR.I Insurance Straight Quote: 24.70 – 25.25
Spot Rate : 0.5500
Average : 0.4280

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 24.22
Evaluated at bid price : 24.70
Bid-YTW : 5.54 %

PVS.PR.M SplitShare Quote: 25.13 – 25.80
Spot Rate : 0.6700
Average : 0.5509

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2031-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.13
Bid-YTW : 5.05 %

FTS.PR.H FixedReset Disc Quote: 20.75 – 21.28
Spot Rate : 0.5300
Average : 0.4198

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-03
Maturity Price : 20.75
Evaluated at bid price : 20.75
Bid-YTW : 5.43 %

Issue Comments

PWI.PR.A To Get Bigger

Brompton Group has announced:

Power & Infrastructure Split Corp. (the “Fund”) is pleased to announce it is undertaking a treasury offering of class A and preferred shares (the “Class A Shares” and “Preferred Shares”, respectively) (the “Offering”).

The sales period for the Offering is expected to end on Thursday, June 4, 2026. The Offering is expected to close on or about June 11, 2026 and is subject to certain closing conditions including approval by the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”).

The Class A Shares will be offered at a price of $13.60 per Class A Share for a distribution rate of 8.8% on the issue price.(1)(2) The Preferred Shares will be offered at a price of $10.40 per Preferred Share to yield 6.2%.(2) The closing price on the TSX for each of the Class A Shares and the Preferred Shares on June 2, 2026 were $13.75 and $10.48, respectively. The Class A Share and Preferred Share offering prices were determined so as to be non-dilutive to the most recently calculated net asset value (“NAV”) per unit of the Company (calculated as at June 2, 2026), as adjusted for dividends and certain expenses to be accrued prior to or upon settlement of the Offering. The Offering is being led by RBC Capital Markets.

The Company invests in a globally diversified and actively managed portfolio (the “Portfolio”) consisting primarily of dividend paying securities of power and infrastructure companies selected by Brompton Funds Limited.

The investment objectives for the Class A Shares are to provide their holders with regular monthly non-cumulative cash distributions and to provide holders of Class A Shares with the opportunity for capital appreciation through exposure to the Portfolio. Over the past 5 years, the Class A Share has generated a 17.5% per annum return.(2)

The investment objectives for the Preferred Shares are to provide holders with fixed cumulative preferential quarterly cash distributions and to return the original issue price of $10.00 to holders of Preferred Shares on May 29, 2031. The distribution rate for the term from May 30, 2026 to May 29, 2031 is $0.64 per Preferred Share per annum (6.4% on the par value of $10.00) payable quarterly. Over the past 5 years, the Preferred Share has generated a 5.1% per annum return.(2) Purchasers of Preferred Shares in this Offering will be eligible to receive the June 2026 quarterly dividend when the dividend is declared.

So the NAVPU is 22.52 and they’re selling these Whole Units for a total of 24.00. Nice business!

PWI.PR.A now pays 6.4% p.a. after its recent extension to 2031-5-29.

New Issues

New Issue: BEP FixedReset 5.75%+265M5.75%

Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. has announced:

that it has agreed to issue 6,000,000 5.75% Cumulative Minimum Rate Reset Class A Preferred Limited Partnership Units, Series 19 (the “Series 19 Preferred Units”) on a bought deal basis to a syndicate of underwriters led by Scotiabank, BMO Capital Markets, CIBC Capital Markets, National Bank of Canada Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities Inc. for distribution to the public. The Series 19 Preferred Units will be issued at a price of C$25.00 per unit, for gross proceeds of C$150,000,000.

Holders of the Series 19 Preferred Units will be entitled to receive a cumulative quarterly fixed distribution yielding 5.75% annually for the initial period ending July 31, 2031. Thereafter, the distribution rate will be reset every five years at a rate equal to the greater of (i) the 5-year Government of Canada bond yield plus 2.65%, and (ii) 5.75%. The Series 19 Preferred Units are redeemable on July 31, 2031 and on each Series 19 Reclassification Date (as defined below) thereafter.

Holders of the Series 19 Preferred Units will have the right, at their option, to reclassify their Series 19 Preferred Units into Cumulative Floating Rate Reset Class A Preferred Limited Partnership Units, Series 20 (“Series 20 Preferred Units”), subject to certain conditions, on July 31, 2031 and on July 31 every 5 years thereafter (each a “Series 19 Reclassification Date”). Holders of Series 20 Preferred Units will be entitled to receive a cumulative quarterly floating distribution at a rate equal to the 90-day Canadian Treasury Bill yield plus 2.65%.

Brookfield Renewable has granted the underwriters an option, exercisable until 48 hours prior to closing, to purchase up to an additional 2,000,000 Series 19 Preferred Units which, if exercised, would increase the gross offering size to C$200,000,000.

The Series 19 Preferred Units will be offered in all provinces and territories of Canada by way of a prospectus supplement to Brookfield Renewable’s existing Canadian short form base shelf prospectus dated September 26, 2025. The Series 19 Preferred Units may not be offered or sold in the United States or to U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements under the U.S. Securities Act.

Brookfield Renewable intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund Eligible Investments (as defined in Brookfield Renewable’s 2024 Green Financing Framework (the “Green Financing Framework”)), including to repay indebtedness incurred in respect thereof. The Green Financing Framework is available on Brookfield Renewable’s website and described in the prospectus supplement in respect of the offering.

The offering of Series 19 Preferred Units is expected to close on or about June 9, 2026.

The distributions of this one are probably complex – by which I mean, not eligible dividends, more like some Return of Capital, some of just about anything – but the prospectus is not yet available on SEDARplus.

Thanks to Assiduous Reader brian for bringing this to my attention!

Market Action

June 2, 2026

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 5.67 % 6.06 % 29,029 14.80 1 0.0577 % 2,588.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.8787 % 4,948.7
Floater 5.50 % 5.74 % 37,800 14.22 3 0.8787 % 2,852.0
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1820 % 3,633.0
SplitShare 4.80 % 4.38 % 54,035 2.79 5 -0.1820 % 4,338.6
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1820 % 3,385.2
Perpetual-Premium 5.69 % 5.70 % 83,527 14.09 7 0.2275 % 3,065.4
Perpetual-Discount 5.60 % 5.68 % 45,350 14.33 28 -0.0410 % 3,364.6
FixedReset Disc 5.58 % 5.87 % 130,886 13.96 19 0.2690 % 3,332.5
Insurance Straight 5.52 % 5.56 % 47,837 14.47 22 -1.1224 % 3,266.2
FloatingReset 4.65 % 4.65 % 26,079 16.22 1 3.5807 % 4,095.3
FixedReset Prem 5.93 % 4.68 % 81,386 2.28 29 -0.0348 % 2,651.6
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2690 % 3,406.4
FixedReset Ins Non 5.11 % 5.26 % 78,455 2.14 14 -0.0741 % 3,234.9
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
GWO.PR.G Insurance Straight -3.97 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.24
Evaluated at bid price : 22.51
Bid-YTW : 5.77 %
BN.PF.C Perpetual-Discount -2.47 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 20.50
Evaluated at bid price : 20.50
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %
IFC.PR.K Insurance Straight -2.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 23.35
Bid-YTW : 5.70 %
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount -1.65 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 23.58
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 5.53 %
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight -1.38 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 21.40
Evaluated at bid price : 21.40
Bid-YTW : 5.26 %
CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount -1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 21.86
Evaluated at bid price : 22.10
Bid-YTW : 5.57 %
GWO.PR.H Insurance Straight -1.19 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 20.99
Evaluated at bid price : 20.99
Bid-YTW : 5.79 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non -1.17 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 19.51
Evaluated at bid price : 19.51
Bid-YTW : 5.56 %
GWO.PR.S Insurance Straight -1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.71
Evaluated at bid price : 23.00
Bid-YTW : 5.70 %
PVS.PR.M SplitShare -1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2031-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.22
Bid-YTW : 4.96 %
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non 1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-06-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.15
Bid-YTW : 5.52 %
BN.PR.B Floater 1.17 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 13.81
Evaluated at bid price : 13.81
Bid-YTW : 5.75 %
ENB.PR.H FixedReset Disc 1.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 23.20
Evaluated at bid price : 24.20
Bid-YTW : 5.53 %
CCS.PR.C Insurance Straight 1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.60
Evaluated at bid price : 22.85
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %
CU.PR.D Perpetual-Discount 1.77 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.12
Evaluated at bid price : 22.40
Bid-YTW : 5.49 %
ENB.PF.C FixedReset Disc 2.83 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.72
Evaluated at bid price : 23.65
Bid-YTW : 6.01 %
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset 3.58 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 19.96
Evaluated at bid price : 19.96
Bid-YTW : 4.65 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
NA.PR.S FixedReset Prem 68,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-05-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.11
Bid-YTW : 4.71 %
NA.PR.G FixedReset Prem 51,135 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-11-16
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.72
Bid-YTW : 4.24 %
ENB.PR.Y FixedReset Disc 25,538 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.29
Evaluated at bid price : 22.80
Bid-YTW : 6.00 %
BN.PF.B FixedReset Prem 20,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 23.49
Evaluated at bid price : 25.25
Bid-YTW : 5.79 %
PVS.PR.M SplitShare 14,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2031-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.22
Bid-YTW : 4.96 %
GWO.PR.Z Insurance Straight 11,172 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2034-09-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.01
Bid-YTW : 5.67 %
There were 5 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
See TMX DataLinx: ‘Last’ != ‘Close’ and the posts linked therein for an idea of why these quotes are so horrible.
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
GWO.PR.G Insurance Straight Quote: 22.51 – 23.93
Spot Rate : 1.4200
Average : 0.9003

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.24
Evaluated at bid price : 22.51
Bid-YTW : 5.77 %

PWF.PR.G Perpetual-Premium Quote: 25.40 – 26.40
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.6940

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2026-07-02
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.40
Bid-YTW : -6.88 %

MFC.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 24.64 – 25.50
Spot Rate : 0.8600
Average : 0.5952

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 23.14
Evaluated at bid price : 24.64
Bid-YTW : 5.38 %

BN.PF.C Perpetual-Discount Quote: 20.50 – 21.29
Spot Rate : 0.7900
Average : 0.5305

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 20.50
Evaluated at bid price : 20.50
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %

GWO.PR.H Insurance Straight Quote: 20.99 – 22.06
Spot Rate : 1.0700
Average : 0.8308

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 20.99
Evaluated at bid price : 20.99
Bid-YTW : 5.79 %

IFC.PR.K Insurance Straight Quote: 23.35 – 24.20
Spot Rate : 0.8500
Average : 0.6131

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-02
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 23.35
Bid-YTW : 5.70 %

Market Action

June 1, 2026

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 1 -0.4021 % 2,587.1
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.4021 % 4,905.6
Floater 5.55 % 5.79 % 39,307 14.15 3 -0.4021 % 2,827.1
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.1188 % 3,639.7
SplitShare 4.79 % 4.39 % 53,348 2.79 5 0.1188 % 4,346.5
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.1188 % 3,391.3
Perpetual-Premium 5.71 % 5.71 % 84,718 14.07 7 -0.2156 % 3,058.4
Perpetual-Discount 5.60 % 5.68 % 45,573 14.33 28 0.2545 % 3,366.0
FixedReset Disc 5.60 % 5.87 % 128,455 13.97 19 -0.1692 % 3,323.5
Insurance Straight 5.46 % 5.56 % 48,806 14.43 22 0.0217 % 3,303.2
FloatingReset 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 1 -0.1692 % 3,953.7
FixedReset Prem 5.92 % 4.71 % 83,325 2.29 29 0.0361 % 2,652.5
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.1692 % 3,397.3
FixedReset Ins Non 5.10 % 5.31 % 79,235 14.22 14 -0.4927 % 3,237.3
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
SLF.PR.J -4.98 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 19.27
Evaluated at bid price : 19.27
Bid-YTW : 4.82 %
ENB.PF.C FixedReset Disc -2.79 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.36
Evaluated at bid price : 23.00
Bid-YTW : 6.20 %
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non -2.77 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 23.53
Evaluated at bid price : 24.89
Bid-YTW : 5.68 %
GWO.PR.H Insurance Straight -2.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 21.28
Evaluated at bid price : 21.55
Bid-YTW : 5.72 %
ENB.PR.J FixedReset Disc -2.47 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.86
Evaluated at bid price : 23.70
Bid-YTW : 6.06 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non -1.96 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 20.00
Evaluated at bid price : 20.00
Bid-YTW : 5.51 %
ENB.PR.H FixedReset Disc -1.85 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 23.05
Evaluated at bid price : 23.90
Bid-YTW : 5.60 %
PWF.PR.A Floater -1.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 14.76
Evaluated at bid price : 14.76
Bid-YTW : 5.33 %
CCS.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.03 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.28
Evaluated at bid price : 22.55
Bid-YTW : 5.53 %
SLF.PR.D Insurance Straight 1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 21.47
Evaluated at bid price : 21.47
Bid-YTW : 5.19 %
GWO.PR.G Insurance Straight 1.19 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 23.51
Evaluated at bid price : 23.78
Bid-YTW : 5.55 %
CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount 1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.09
Evaluated at bid price : 22.37
Bid-YTW : 5.50 %
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc 1.58 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 21.25
Evaluated at bid price : 21.25
Bid-YTW : 5.58 %
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount 1.68 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 24.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.25
Bid-YTW : 5.43 %
GWO.PR.Q Insurance Straight 1.88 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 23.07
Evaluated at bid price : 23.33
Bid-YTW : 5.61 %
PWF.PF.A Perpetual-Discount 2.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 20.21
Evaluated at bid price : 20.21
Bid-YTW : 5.64 %
POW.PR.D Perpetual-Discount 2.60 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.66
Evaluated at bid price : 22.90
Bid-YTW : 5.53 %
GWO.PR.I Insurance Straight 2.86 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 21.19
Evaluated at bid price : 21.19
Bid-YTW : 5.41 %
BN.PR.T FixedReset Disc 3.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.21
Evaluated at bid price : 22.94
Bid-YTW : 5.87 %
NA.PR.C FixedReset Prem 3.75 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2027-11-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.02
Bid-YTW : 4.36 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
NA.PR.S FixedReset Prem 25,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-05-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.14
Bid-YTW : 4.66 %
ENB.PR.Y FixedReset Disc 23,200 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.35
Evaluated at bid price : 22.90
Bid-YTW : 5.97 %
GWO.PR.Z Insurance Straight 21,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2034-09-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.30
Bid-YTW : 5.71 %
POW.PR.I Perpetual-Premium 15,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 24.65
Evaluated at bid price : 25.05
Bid-YTW : 5.71 %
PWF.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount 13,100 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 22.49
Evaluated at bid price : 22.75
Bid-YTW : 5.72 %
TD.PF.J FixedReset Prem 12,800 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.76
Bid-YTW : 4.38 %
There were 3 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
See TMX DataLinx: ‘Last’ != ‘Close’ and the posts linked therein for an idea of why these quotes are so horrible.
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
GWO.PR.Y Insurance Straight Quote: 20.83 – 23.00
Spot Rate : 2.1700
Average : 1.4112

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 20.83
Evaluated at bid price : 20.83
Bid-YTW : 5.50 %

BIP.PR.F FixedReset Prem Quote: 25.91 – 27.50
Spot Rate : 1.5900
Average : 0.9454

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2029-01-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.91
Bid-YTW : 4.74 %

SLF.PR.J Quote: 19.27 – 20.40
Spot Rate : 1.1300
Average : 0.6721

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 19.27
Evaluated at bid price : 19.27
Bid-YTW : 4.82 %

MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 24.89 – 25.89
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.5885

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 23.53
Evaluated at bid price : 24.89
Bid-YTW : 5.68 %

CU.PR.J Perpetual-Discount Quote: 21.48 – 22.50
Spot Rate : 1.0200
Average : 0.6158

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2056-06-01
Maturity Price : 21.48
Evaluated at bid price : 21.48
Bid-YTW : 5.57 %

MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 25.65 – 26.65
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.6775

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2028-09-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.65
Bid-YTW : 5.03 %

Issue Comments

BN.PR.R To Reset To 5.432%

Brookfield Corporation has announced:

the reset dividend rate on its Cumulative Class A Preference Shares, Series 24 (the “Series 24 Shares”) (TSX: BN.PR.R) for the five years commencing July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2031.

If declared, the fixed quarterly dividends on the Series 24 Shares during the five years commencing July 1, 2026 will be paid at an annual rate of 5.432% ($0.3395 per share per quarter).

Holders of Series 24 Shares have the right, at their option, exercisable not later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on June 15, 2026, to convert all or part of their Series 24 Shares, on a one-for-one basis, into Cumulative Class A Preference Shares, Series 25 (the “Series 25 Shares”), effective June 30, 2026. The quarterly floating rate dividends on the Series 25 Shares will be paid at an annual rate, calculated for each quarter, of 2.30% over the annual yield on three-month Government of Canada treasury bills. The actual quarterly dividend rate in respect of the July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 dividend period for the Series 25 Shares will be 1.16525% (4.623% on an annualized basis) and the dividend, if declared, for such dividend period will be $0.2913125 per share, payable on September 30, 2026.

Holders of Series 24 Shares are not required to elect to convert all or any part of their Series 24 Shares into Series 25 Shares.

As provided in the share conditions of the Series 24 Shares, (i) if Brookfield determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series 24 Shares outstanding after June 30, 2026, all remaining Series 24 Shares will be automatically converted into Series 25 Shares on a one-for-one basis effective June 30, 2026; and (ii) if Brookfield determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series 25 Shares outstanding after June 30, 2026, no Series 24 Shares will be permitted to be converted into Series 25 Shares. There are currently 10,808,027 Series 24 Shares outstanding.

The Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) has conditionally approved the listing of the Series 25 Shares effective upon conversion. Listing of the Series 25 Shares is subject to Brookfield fulfilling all the listing requirements of the TSX.

BN.PR.R was issued as BAM.PR.R, a FixedReset 5.40%+230 that commenced trading 2010-1-14 after being announced 2010-1-5. It reset to 3.014% in 2016; I recommended against conversion but there was a 14% conversion to the FloatingReset BAM.PR.S anyway. The issue reset to 3.237% in 2021, at which time the FloatingResets were forcibly converted back to the FixedReset. The ticker changed in December, 2022.