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Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. has announced:

that Brookfield Renewable Power Preferred Equity Inc. (“BRP Equity”) has determined the fixed dividend rate on its Class A Preference Shares, Series 3 (“Series 3 Shares”) (TSX: BRF.PR.C) for the five years commencing August 1, 2024 and ending July 31, 2029.

Series 3 Shares and Series 4 Shares

If declared, the fixed quarterly dividends on the Series 3 Shares during the five years commencing August 1, 2024 will be paid at an annual rate of 6.519% ($0.4074375 per share per quarter).

Holders of Series 3 Shares have the right, at their option, exercisable not later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on July 16, 2024, to convert all or part of their Series 3 Shares, on a one-for-one basis, into Class A Preference Shares, Series 4 (the “Series 4 Shares”), effective July 31, 2024.

The quarterly floating rate dividends on the Series 4 Shares will be paid at an annual rate, calculated for each quarter, of 2.940% over the annual yield on three-month Government of Canada treasury bills. The actual quarterly dividend in respect of the August 1, 2024 to October 31, 2024 dividend period for the Series 4 Shares, if declared, will be $0.478840 per share, payable on October 31, 2024.

Holders of Series 3 Shares are not required to elect to convert all or any part of their Series 3 Shares into Series 4 Shares.

As provided in the share conditions of the Series 3 Shares, (i) if BRP Equity determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series 3 Shares outstanding after July 31, 2024, all remaining Series 3 Shares will be automatically converted into Series 4 Shares on a one-for-one basis effective July 31, 2024; and (ii) if BRP Equity determines that there would be fewer than 1,000,000 Series 4 Shares outstanding after July 31, 2024, no Series 3 Shares will be permitted to be converted into Series 4 Shares. There are currently 10,000,000 Series 3 Shares outstanding.

The Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) has conditionally approved the listing of the Series 4 Shares effective upon conversion. Listing of the Series 4 Shares is subject to BRP Equity fulfilling all the listing requirements of the TSX and, upon approval, the Series 4 Shares will be listed on the TSX under the trading symbol “BRF.PR.D”.

BRF.PR.C was issued as a FixedReset, 4.40%+294, that commenced trading 2010-10-11 after being announced 2010-10-1. The issue reset at 4.351% effective 2019-8-1. I recommended against conversion and there was no conversion. The issue has been tracked by HIMIPref™, but assigned to the Scraps – FixedReset (Discount) subindex on credit concerns.

Thanks to Assiduous Readers niagara and CanSiamCyp for bringing this to my attention!

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