Mike Vinokur Brookfield Corp BN-T WAIT Mar 07, 2025

A quality Canadian name, allowing Canadian dollars to access global markets. Their challenge is that they invest in private businesses, then sell them at a higher price. But all the current volatility has put those plans on hold. Not the end of the world--BN will continue to run those businesses.

Got stopped out at $77. Great company. Private equity is having a difficult time in this market, partly because so many have used leverage for deals and the cost of credit is going up.

Typically, his Top Picks include a US name, a Canadian name, and an income name. Today all 3 picks are Canadian compounders.

Brookfield is a phenomenal, high-quality company. Will benefit from current environment. Roughly $160-170B of client capital to invest. Can grab businesses that come under pressure. Easy way for you to be counter-cyclical, sleep at night, they do the work for you. Yield is 0.7%.

BN.PF.H is what you're looking for. It's going to reset at the end of the year. Reset spread is 4.17. Add 4.17 to the BOC 5-year bond yield today (2.7%). That gives you almost 7% as the reset rate at the end of the year, if the BOC rate were to remain stable. One to consider, he owns a bunch. Brookfield's a very solid company.

Prefers owning this to any of the subsidiaries. It's more diversified and very cheap. That's where management is and where they have their money; he always likes to invest next to the guy who's running the show. Trophy offices. About 85% of the value of the subsidiaries is baked into BN stock. Insurance segment. Probably 40% undervalued today. Lots of opportunity. Growing ~15% a year. Yield is 0.69%.

The closer you are to the top of the house in the Brookfield framework, the closer you are to the CEO and the Board, and the incentive structures tend to favour them. Doesn't have the great yield, but has upside. BAM offers you the yield and, broadly speaking, growth aspects. He'd encourage you to stay near the top of the house, depending on how much yield you need for your life circumstances.

For BIP.UN, it's not really whether Mark Carney got elected or not, or tariffs, because it's a global business. Infrastructure, toll roads, coal, etc. Very diversified. 

He chose this name because he's scared. He's looking for blue-chip names. Buying back solidly. Trades at 8% discount to forward NAV. Seeing growth accelerating. Fundraising demand still good and on track. Not expensive at 12.4x price to AFFO, and growth forecast about 17.6x. 

Price to growth is really compelling. Value and growth. Powerful tailwinds. Even if the economy goes bad, you're going to be OK. (Note that price target is in USD, for the NYSE-listed version.) Yield is 0.63%.

The love of his life, which they've owned for quite a long time. Likes that it collects giant fees from diversified assets. His preferred play on alternative assets. Headwinds from tariffs and regulations, but those are dissipating at the moment. 

Terrific track record long term, despite this year being tough. Compounded shareholder return of 18% over last 30 years. Growth will come from selling new products to retail investors in insurance, real estate, private equity. Volatile markets will work in its favour.

Long-term winner. Chart looks great. You can see the tariff tantrum, and now the stock looks as though it wants to push higher. A Canadian stalwart. Great long-term buy and hold. Corrections are always a great time to add.

It is a storied asset manger and owns many baby Brookfields. He really likes the management and company but the stock is expensive. As a value investor he wants a decent sized correction before buying. He has concerns re the private equity space, in particular defaults or lower valuations, which would affect asset management fees.