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. |
[…] 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. […]