Best & Worst Performers: December 2010

These are total returns, with dividends presumed to have been reinvested at the bid price on the ex-date. The list has been restricted to issues in the HIMIPref™ indices.

December 2010
Issue Index DBRS Rating Monthly Performance Notes (“Now” means “December 31”)
SLF.PR.E Perpetual-Discount Pfd-1(low) -4.05% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.69% based on a bid of 24.26 and a limitMaturity.
IAG.PR.A Perpetual-Discount Pfd-2(high) -3.81% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.59% based on a bid of 20.73 and a limitMaturity.
BNA.PR.C SplitShare Pfd-2(low) -2.71% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.47% based on a bid of 21.85 and a hardMaturity 2019-1-10 at 25.00.
ELF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount Not Rated
(P-2(high) by S&P)
-2.30% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.08% based on a bid o 21.90 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.B Perpetual-Discount Pfd-1(low) -2.10% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.21% based on a bid of 22.81 and a limitMaturity.
GWO.PR.H Perpetual-Discount Pfd-1(low) +2.43% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.18% based on a bid of 23.51 and a limitMaturity.
BAM.PR.I OpRet Pfd-2(low) +2.63% The second-worst performer in November, so this is largely bounce-back. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of -20.83% based on a bid of 26.08 and a call 2011-1-30 at 25.50.
BAM.PR.O OpRet Pfd-2(low) +3.20% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 2.67% based on a bid of 26.41 and optionCertainty 2013-6-30 at 25.00.
BAM.PR.K Floater Pfd-2(low) +4.66% Also the second-best performer in November.
BAM.PR.B Floater Pfd-2(low) +5.36% Also the best performer in November.

One Response to “Best & Worst Performers: December 2010”

  1. […] are interesting. SLF.PR.E had the worst performance of the selected issues (in fact, it had the worst performance of all the HIMIPref™ index constituents), clocking in at -4.05% – and the fund had a 7.0% weighting in this issue as of November 30. […]

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