The August, 2023, edition of PrefLetter has been released and is now available for purchase as the “Previous edition”. Those who subscribe for a full year receive the “Previous edition” as a bonus.
PrefLetter may now be purchased by all Canadian residents.
Until further notice, the “previous” edition will refer to the August, 2023, issue, while the “next” edition will be the September, 2023, issue scheduled to be prepared as of the close September 8, and emailed to subscribers prior to the market-opening on September 11. Prefletter is intended for long term investors seeking issues to buy-and-hold. At least one recommendation from each of the major preferred share sectors is included and discussed.
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Note: Assiduous Reader DG informs me:
In case you have any other Apple users: you need to install a free App from the apple store called “FileApp”. It comes with it’s own tutorial and allows you to download and save a PDF file.
However, Assiduous Reader Adrian informs me in the comments to the January 2015 release:
Some nitpicking for DG:
FileApp costs $1.19 in the Apple Store.
But Adrian2 now advises:
Well, as of now, FileApp is free (again?).
Hello,
I’ve been trying to understand the pref share market lately. ENB.PR.H most recently reset and is now yielding ~8.5%, 100bp+ above the common stock yield, 400bp+ above GOC-5. Seems this is a tad high? Is this due to expecations of higher for longer yields and/or the bearish lack of interest state in this market by larger participants?
“I’ve been trying to understand the pref share market lately.”
You’re in the right place. Spend a lot of time reading the posts here and definitely read the comments too.
If you’re keen on ENB, then you want to be buying ENB.PF.G or ENB.PF.E. If you can understand why, then you are starting to understand the value available in fixed resets right now.
Is this due to expecations of higher for longer yields and/or the bearish lack of interest state in this market by larger participants?
“Higher for longer yields” should be good for the preferred share market, since it is dominated by FixedResets, which will reset to higher yields in such a scenario – at least for a while. However, I take the view that in an efficient market the level of five-year Canada yields will have only a small effect, since it is spreads that matter, not absolute yields.
I also take the view that the main thing that’s wrong with the preferred share market is past performance. Look at the track record! The index delivered a 0.90% annuallzed over the last eleven years! You don’t sell too many funds with that kind of performance! At least two good-sized funds have closed down this year and I have no doubt but that if I followed such things I would find more closures.
I’ve been trying to understand the pref share market lately.
So have we all!
I suggest you read the July 2023 Performance Report for my fund to get an overview of what I think is important; then the post Yield Calculator for Resets: New and Improved! for a way to boil down whatever assumptions you’re making into a single yield number comparable across issues; and then Implied Volatility For FixedResets: 2016 Edition for an explanation of why one will normally see different yields for issues from the same issuer; read through my other publications; and then to stay on top of things, get a subscription to PrefLetter for the low, low price of only $209.05 (including HST) annually! That’s right, only $209.05! Get your subscription now!