December 31, 2010

It was an extremely slow and boring day on the Canadian preferred share market to end the year, with PerpetualDiscounts up about half a beep and FixedResets losing 6bp.

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.48%, equivalent to 7.67% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.4x. Long Corporates now yield about 5.4%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread is now about 225bp, a slight (and perhaps spurious) widening from the 220bp reported December 29

Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund has had another good year – I’ll put a little cinnamon in my coffee tonight, to celebrate – but I’ll have the final report out on that in the near future.

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 -0.1726 % 2,306.1
FixedFloater 4.83 % 3.55 % 30,055 18.92 1 -0.2656 % 3,484.8
Floater 2.59 % 2.39 % 49,815 21.23 4 -0.1726 % 2,490.0
OpRet 4.78 % 3.31 % 61,323 2.35 8 -0.0287 % 2,397.8
SplitShare 5.34 % 1.28 % 749,483 0.94 4 0.0807 % 2,446.8
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0287 % 2,192.5
Perpetual-Premium 5.69 % 5.48 % 147,666 5.40 27 0.0198 % 2,019.4
Perpetual-Discount 5.40 % 5.46 % 263,803 14.74 51 0.0052 % 2,029.3
FixedReset 5.22 % 3.33 % 320,324 3.10 52 -0.0625 % 2,271.6
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
SLF.PR.E Perpetual-Discount -2.97 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2040-12-31
Maturity Price : 19.91
Evaluated at bid price : 19.91
Bid-YTW : 5.69 %
SLF.PR.F FixedReset -1.85 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-07-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 27.00
Bid-YTW : 3.63 %
NA.PR.N FixedReset -1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2013-09-14
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.70
Bid-YTW : 2.94 %
CM.PR.P Perpetual-Premium 1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2040-12-31
Maturity Price : 23.54
Evaluated at bid price : 24.82
Bid-YTW : 5.48 %
NA.PR.L Perpetual-Discount 1.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2040-12-31
Maturity Price : 23.31
Evaluated at bid price : 23.57
Bid-YTW : 5.20 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
BNA.PR.D SplitShare 15,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2011-01-30
Maturity Price : 26.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.87
Bid-YTW : -25.77 %
RY.PR.E Perpetual-Discount 15,250 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2040-12-31
Maturity Price : 21.59
Evaluated at bid price : 21.94
Bid-YTW : 5.17 %
TD.PR.O Perpetual-Discount 13,353 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2040-12-31
Maturity Price : 23.75
Evaluated at bid price : 24.01
Bid-YTW : 5.12 %
There were 0 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.

4 Responses to “December 31, 2010”

  1. […] MAPF Portfolio Composition: December 2010 analysis (which is in excess of the 5.46% index yield on December 31). Given such reinvestment, the sustainable yield would be $10.7659 * 0.0560 = $0.6029, basically […]

  2. […] PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.43%, equivalent to 7.60% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.4x. Long corporates now yield about 5.5%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (also known, around here, as the Seniority Spread) is now about 210bp, a dramatic tightening from the 225bp reported on December 31. […]

  3. […] spread of PerpetualDiscounts over Long Corporates (which I also refer to as the Seniority Spread) ended the year at 225bp, a slight increase from the 220bp reported at November month end. Long corporate yields […]

  4. […] as the Seniority Spread) ended the month at 190bp, a significant decline from the 225bp reported at year-end. The decline may be attribute with a fair level of confidence to speculation (ultimately proved […]

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