{"id":6383,"date":"2009-05-02T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2009-05-02T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T20:06:10","slug":"best-worst-performers-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=6383","title":{"rendered":"Best & Worst Performers: April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are total returns, with dividends presumed to have been reinvested at the bid price on the ex-date. The list has been restricted to issues in the HIMIPref\u2122 indices.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
April 2009<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Issue<\/td>\nIndex<\/td>\nDBRS Rating<\/td>\nMonthly Performance<\/td>\nNotes (“Now” means “April 30”)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ACO.PR.A<\/td>\nOpRet<\/td>\nPfd-2(low)<\/td>\n-1.87%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 2.58% based on a bid of 26.25 and a call 2009-12-31 at 25.50.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GWO.PR.X<\/td>\nOpRet<\/td>\nPfd-1(low)<\/td>\n+0.40%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.77% based on a bid of 25.15 and a softMaturity<\/a> 2013-9-29 at 25.00.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MFC.PR.A<\/td>\nOpRet<\/td>\nPfd-1(low)<\/td>\n+0.73%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.29% based on a bid of 24.87 and a softMaturity<\/a> 2015-12-18 at 25.00.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CM.PR.A<\/td>\nOpRet<\/td>\nPfd-1<\/td>\n+0.98%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of -9.75% based on a bid of 25.82 and a call 2009-5-30 at 25.00.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TCA.PR.Y<\/td>\nPerpetualDiscount<\/td>\nPfd-2(low)<\/td>\n+1.06%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.99% based on a bid of 46.72 and a limitMaturity<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
…<\/td>\n…<\/td>\n…<\/td>\n…<\/td>\n…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MFC.PR.C<\/td>\nPerpetualDiscount<\/td>\nPfd-1(low)<\/td>\n+15.59%<\/td>\nThe second-worst performer in March<\/a>. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.59% based on a bid of 17.35 and a limitMaturity<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ELF.PR.G<\/td>\nPerpetualDiscount<\/td>\nPfd-2(low)<\/td>\n+16.23%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 7.81% based on a bid of 15.40 and a limitMaturity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PWF.PR.L<\/td>\nPerpetualDiscount<\/td>\nPfd-1(low)<\/td>\n+16.60%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.84% based on a bid of 18.80 and a limitMaturity<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IAG.PR.A<\/td>\nPerpetualDiscount<\/td>\nPfd-2(high)<\/td>\n+18.00%<\/td>\nWas the worst performer in March<\/a> – this issue is notoriously volatile. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.90% based on a bid of 16.91 and a limitMaturity<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BNA.PR.C<\/td>\nSplitShare<\/td>\nPfd-2(low)<\/td>\n+21.60%<\/td>\nNow with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 13.01% based on a bid of 13.51 and a hardMaturity<\/a> 2019-1-10 at 25.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are total returns, with dividends presumed to have been reinvested at the bid price on the ex-date. The list has been restricted to issues in the HIMIPref\u2122 indices. April 2009 Issue Index DBRS Rating …<\/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-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","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=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}