Month: December 2017

Issue Comments

BIG.PR.D: Partial Call for Redemption

Timbercreek Asset Management Inc. has announced:

Big 8 Split Inc. (the “Company”) (TSX: BIG.D) (TSX: BIG.PR.D) announced today, a total of 153,961 Class D Preferred Shares and 153,961 Class D Capital Shares, or approximately 14.90% of both classes of shares currently outstanding, will be redeemed as a result of holders of 153,961 Units exercising their special annual concurrent retraction privilege. The holders will only be entitled to receive dividends on those which have been declared but remain unpaid up to and including December 15, 2017.

Payments and delivery of cash and common shares owing as a result of shareholders having exercised their retraction privilege, will be made by the Company on December 15, 2017.

The Company was established to generate dividend income for the Class D Preferred Shares while providing holders of the Class D Capital Shares with a leveraged opportunity to participate in capital appreciation from a portfolio of common shares of Bank of Montreal, The Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, Great-West Lifeco Inc., Manulife Financial Corporation, and Sun Life Financial Inc. Information concerning Big 8 Split Inc. is available on our website at www.timbercreek.com/investments/managed-companies/big8-split-inc/overview.

The Class D Capital Shares and Class D Preferred Shares of Big 8 Split are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols BIG.D and BIG.pr.D respectively.

BIG.PR.D is not tracked by HIMIPref™, as it is too small to allow reasonable expectations of efficient trading.

Market Action

December 1, 2017

Well, the hardworking folks at FAIR Canada have finally released (some time after November 11, when I sent my still-unanswered eMail of inquiry) their Financial Statements for the Year Ended 2017-6-30 and they’re most interesting. Their good buddies and former employers at the OSC continue to regard the funds under OSC’s control as some kind of superannuation scheme.

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It’s a disgusting situation. The source of these funds is fines and penalties levied on the investment industry, which makes this flim-flam nothing more than the most offensive kind of civil forfeiture scheme. The OSC should be required to remit all fines and penalties to the Ontario treasury immediately upon receipt to discourage this sort of backscratching. The current system is just ridiculous:

The OSC has a number of settlement agreements and orders arising from enforcement proceedings where monies from these settlements and orders are to be set aside and allocated to such third parties as the Board of the OSC may determine. As a result of an amendment to the Securities Act (Ontario) effective June 2012, these funds are eligible to be allocated to the OSC for the purpose of educating investors, or promoting or otherwise enhancing knowledge and information of persons regarding the operation of the securities and financial markets, including such designated internal costs as approved by the Board.

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 1.0982 % 2,515.9
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.0982 % 4,616.6
Floater 3.63 % 3.83 % 33,891 17.72 4 1.0982 % 2,660.5
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0721 % 3,123.8
SplitShare 4.72 % 3.57 % 54,258 1.08 6 -0.0721 % 3,730.4
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0721 % 2,910.6
Perpetual-Premium 5.35 % 3.50 % 53,990 0.09 20 -0.0392 % 2,841.1
Perpetual-Discount 5.18 % 5.23 % 71,496 15.04 14 -0.0727 % 3,027.4
FixedReset 4.24 % 4.28 % 144,195 4.46 98 -0.4710 % 2,491.0
Deemed-Retractible 5.03 % 5.29 % 89,953 5.97 30 -0.0561 % 2,955.8
FloatingReset 2.71 % 2.73 % 40,317 3.94 8 -0.1845 % 2,681.2
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
TRP.PR.E FixedReset -1.67 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.56
Evaluated at bid price : 22.90
Bid-YTW : 4.39 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset -1.43 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 17.95
Evaluated at bid price : 17.95
Bid-YTW : 4.59 %
HSE.PR.A FixedReset -1.43 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 17.29
Evaluated at bid price : 17.29
Bid-YTW : 4.61 %
BAM.PF.E FixedReset -1.42 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.91
Evaluated at bid price : 23.65
Bid-YTW : 4.46 %
BAM.PF.B FixedReset -1.32 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 23.46
Evaluated at bid price : 23.92
Bid-YTW : 4.48 %
TRP.PR.D FixedReset -1.31 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.26
Evaluated at bid price : 22.65
Bid-YTW : 4.43 %
RY.PR.Z FixedReset -1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.80
Evaluated at bid price : 23.23
Bid-YTW : 4.13 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset -1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 18.44
Bid-YTW : 7.53 %
RY.PR.J FixedReset -1.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 23.27
Evaluated at bid price : 24.47
Bid-YTW : 4.30 %
IAG.PR.G FixedReset -1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 4.75 %
RY.PR.M FixedReset -1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 23.11
Evaluated at bid price : 24.30
Bid-YTW : 4.21 %
BAM.PR.Z FixedReset -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.94
Evaluated at bid price : 24.40
Bid-YTW : 4.68 %
MFC.PR.G FixedReset -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-12-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.50
Bid-YTW : 4.41 %
BAM.PR.K Floater 1.37 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 14.78
Evaluated at bid price : 14.78
Bid-YTW : 3.83 %
PWF.PR.A Floater 1.76 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 17.30
Evaluated at bid price : 17.30
Bid-YTW : 3.25 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
BNS.PR.H FixedReset 159,215 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-01-26
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.19
Bid-YTW : 3.75 %
W.PR.K FixedReset 113,160 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-01-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.25
Bid-YTW : 3.79 %
BMO.PR.T FixedReset 56,181 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.56
Evaluated at bid price : 22.93
Bid-YTW : 4.21 %
BMO.PR.D FixedReset 27,250 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2022-08-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.50
Bid-YTW : 3.97 %
MFC.PR.J FixedReset 23,474 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.61
Bid-YTW : 4.47 %
TD.PF.A FixedReset 21,484 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 23.03
Evaluated at bid price : 23.38
Bid-YTW : 4.15 %
There were 31 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
BAM.PF.E FixedReset Quote: 23.65 – 24.14
Spot Rate : 0.4900
Average : 0.3466

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.91
Evaluated at bid price : 23.65
Bid-YTW : 4.46 %

BAM.PF.B FixedReset Quote: 23.92 – 24.30
Spot Rate : 0.3800
Average : 0.2525

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 23.46
Evaluated at bid price : 23.92
Bid-YTW : 4.48 %

TRP.PR.G FixedReset Quote: 24.02 – 24.47
Spot Rate : 0.4500
Average : 0.3287

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.98
Evaluated at bid price : 24.02
Bid-YTW : 4.59 %

BAM.PR.Z FixedReset Quote: 24.40 – 24.70
Spot Rate : 0.3000
Average : 0.2134

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2047-12-01
Maturity Price : 22.94
Evaluated at bid price : 24.40
Bid-YTW : 4.68 %

IAG.PR.G FixedReset Quote: 23.85 – 24.07
Spot Rate : 0.2200
Average : 0.1352

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.85
Bid-YTW : 4.75 %

PVS.PR.B SplitShare Quote: 25.20 – 25.49
Spot Rate : 0.2900
Average : 0.2159

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2019-01-10
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.20
Bid-YTW : 3.57 %