{"id":22501,"date":"2013-07-14T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T20:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=22501"},"modified":"2013-07-14T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T20:22:05","slug":"dgs-pr-a-annual-report-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=22501","title":{"rendered":"DGS.PR.A Annual Report 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dividend Growth Split Corp. has released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromptongroup.com\/static\/pdf\/funds\/dgs\/dgs_ar2012.pdf\">Annual Report to December 31, 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\">DGS \/ DGS.PR.A Performance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Instrument<\/td>\n<td>One<br \/>Year<\/td>\n<td>Three<br \/>Years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Whole Unit<\/td>\n<td>+13.2%<\/td>\n<td>+7.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DGS.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>+5.4%<\/td>\n<td>+5.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>DGS<\/td>\n<td>+26.3%<\/td>\n<td>+11.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>S&#038;P\/TSX Composite Index<\/td>\n<td>+7.2%<\/td>\n<td>+4.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>I think a dividend-tilting index would have been a more appropriate benchmark for this fund than the Composite, but we&#8217;ll let that go.<\/p>\n<p>Figures of interest are:<\/p>\n<p>MER: 1.06% of the whole unit value<\/p>\n<p>Average Net Assets: The Net Asset Value at year end was $106.7-million, compared to $104.7-million a year prior, so call it an average of $105.7-million.<\/p>\n<p>Underlying Portfolio Yield: Dividends and interest received of $4.77-million divided by average net assets of $105.7-million is 4.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Income Coverage: Dividends and Securities Lending Income of $4.77-million less expenses of $1.11-million is $3.66-million, to cover preferred dividends of $3.35-million is 109%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dividend Growth Split Corp. has released its Annual Report to December 31, 2012. DGS \/ DGS.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears Whole Unit +13.2% +7.8% DGS.PR.A +5.4% +5.4% DGS +26.3% +11.4% S&#038;P\/TSX Composite Index +7.2% +4.8% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}