EIT.PR.A , EIT.PR.B : Annual Report 2018

Canoe EIT Income Fund has released its Annual Report to December 31, 2018.

EIT Performance
Instrument One
Year
Three
Years
Five
Years
Ten
Years
EIT
Common Redeemable Units
(based on NAV)
-6.2% +5.5% +5.1% +10.1%
S&P/TSX Composite Total Return Index -8.9% +6.4% +4.1% +7.9%

Sadly, they did not publish a “whole fund” return.

Figures of interest are:

MER: “Management expense ratio excluding issue costs, interest, and distributions to preferred redeemable units” “as a percentage of net asset value” (which I take to mean, based only on the equity represented by the Capital Units) 1.57% “as a percentage of net asset value” (which I take to mean, based only on the equity represented by the Capital Units).

Average Net Assets: There was no particularly enormous change in either the number of capital units outstanding or of the net asset value per capital unit, so let’s just take the average of the year-beginning and year-ending NAVs, including preferred shares: (1,067-million + 215-million + 1,073-million + 136-million) / 2 = 1,246-million

Underlying Portfolio Yield: Dividends received of 28.606-million + interest of 4.347-million is 32.953-million divided by average net assets of 1,246-million is 2.64%

Income Coverage: Net Investment Income of 9.034-million divided by Preferred Share Distributions (annualized) of 10.626-million is 85%.

Asset Coverage: NET ASSETS ATTRIBUTABLE TO HOLDERS OF COMMON REDEEMABLE UNITS of 1,067-million + Preferred redeemable units of 215-million, all divided by Preferred redeemable units of 215-million is 6.0-:1 (downside protection of about 83%)

Note that DBRS recently confirmed the preferreds at Pfd-2(high):

The distribution coverage ratio was approximately 0.9. … As of April 9, 2019, the downside protection available to the Preferred Units was approximately 85.00%.

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