Opinions
Richard Croft
iShares S&P/TSX Preferred ETF
CPD-T
COMMENT
Dec 18, 2017
$14.250
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A mix of perpetual issues and resets. Makes up 10% of his portfolio. It's a Blackrock ETF loaded with rate resets and that's why it's under pressure. He's not ready to sell it--it pays a nice yield and he owns it as a hedge. But it's had a hard time lately. 10% is too much, unless interest rates come back which he doesn't expect.
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Adding preferred shares to bonds and GICS to a portfolio? HPR or ZPR? Great idea and either of those ETFs is fine. CPD is a basket of reset-preferreds is another idea or buy the individual preferreds like BCE or the banks. Preferreds are good to buy now because rates are so low. Preferreds are now yielding 120-200% of what 1o-year bonds are paying.
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He generally does not like preferred shares. It has the risk of a stock and return of a bond. You also have to be concerned about rate resets versus perpetual dividends. He would prefer to sell call options against the banks. He thinks you should focus on the recovery being in the US as Canada is purely a commodity based economy and will take much longer to recover from this.
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Changing from GICs and a savings account? He would suggest you buy some preferred shares. Preferred shares are undervalued relative to interest rates. You can buy this ETF. 70% of the portfolio is in floating rate preferreds, which means if interest rates rise, the value of the preferreds will hold their own because the interest they collect will rise. It pays a monthly income and has a 4.8% yield, significantly better than you would get on a bond portfolio.