The fund outperformed the indices in January, helped by its holdings in insurance DeemedRetractibles but brought down a bit by it’s holdings of the PerpetualDiscounts CU.PR.F and CU.PR.G, which underperformed. Click for Big Click for …
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MAPF: Performance, January 2014
The fund outperformed the indices in January, helped by its holdings in insurance DeemedRetractibles but hindered by CGI.PR.D, which returned -2.44% on the month. Click for Big Click for Big I continue to believe that …
MAPF Performance: December, 2013
The fund performed approximately equal to the indices in December, helped by its low weighting in junk FixedResets, which outperformed (as indicated by the performance difference between TXPR (-1.50%) and TXPL (-1.61%)), but hurt by …
MAPF Performance: November 2013
The fund underperformed in November, due to its low weighting in junk FixedResets, which outperformed (as indicated by the performance difference between TXPR (+1.26%) and TXPL (+1.66%)). Low Reset investment-grade issues also did well, exemplified …
MAPF Performance, October 2013
The fund outperformed in October, due to its low weighting in junk FixedResets, which underperformed (as indicated by the performance difference between TXPR (-0.07%) and TXPL (-0.78%)). The fund’s returns were also helped along by …
MAPF Performance, September 2013
The fund outperformed in September, due to its low weighting in junk FixedResets, which underperformed (as indicated by the performance difference between TXPR (+0.48%) and TXPL (-0.10%)). There was a modest recovery in the Canadian …
MAPF Performance: August, 2013
The fund outperformed in August, due to its low weighting in junk FixedResets, which underperformed (as indicated by the performance difference between CPD and ZPR). The Canadian preferred share market performed poorly in August, but …
MAPF Performance: July 2013
The fund underperformed in June, due largely to being over-weight in DeemedRetractible issues, more particularly insurance DeemedRetractibles which didn’t just underperform – these issues actually underperformed PerpetualDiscounts, something I cannot explain. The Canadian preferred share …
MAPF Performance: June 2013
The fund underperformed in June, due largely to being over-weight in DeemedRetractible issues, more particularly insurance DeemedRetractibles which severely underperformed – in fact, these issues performed indistinguishably from PerpetualDiscounts. Markets in general performed poorly in …
MAPF Performance: May 2013
The fund outperformed in May, due largely to being under-weight in PerpetualPremium issues, which severely underperformed. ZPR, is a relatively new ETF comprised of FixedResets and Floating Rate issues, with a very high proportion of …