The stock has been dormant. The problem is that there is no sense of urgency at the Management level. Long-term thinking. Money is flowing out of the interest rate sensible names also. 

This is a solid company and dividend payer, but the stock prices has done nothing for a very long period of time.  Two of the entities largest holdings are Investors Group and Great West Life.   The mutual fund side is going through tough fee compression.  He would not invest new capital here.      

This is a family-owned empire. Control has changed and they have cut loose their newspaper and are talking about doing interesting new things with their assets, including consolidating their European assets which valued at $0 by the street. The stock trades at about 80% of its net asset value. It is inexpensive in absolute terms and in comparison to its historical valuation, and poised for growth. Rising bond yields will boost their earnings of the Power Financial companies. The dividend yield is high, with very little risk. (Analysts' price target is $33.69)

Power Corp (POW-T) vs Power Financial (PWF-T). He owns Power Financial. Power Corp is the parent. It has been a disappointing stock. PWF owns Great West Life (GWO-T) and IGM-T and a European investment company. GWO has been the drag on Power Financial due to a poor acquisition of a US investment company and some poor European investments. He still owns Power Financial and hopes they will return to twice yearly dividend increases (which stopped following the financial crisis). Yield 4.98%.

She holds Power Financial, which is part of the same family. She thinks the dividend, around 4%, is very safe. Looking at the underlying businesses, Great West Life has performed well but Investors’ Group is going through a change with move to ETFs. POW is working through this. It generally trades at a discount to the net asset value of its underlying companies. The discount is now around 19% compared to a typical level of 10%. This indicates that the market would rather own the underlying companies directly rather than through a large conglomerate.

Over the last number of years, this has traded in this range, and hasn't moved a whole a lot. The bulk of this is coming from Power Financial, which is their exposure to Great West Life (GWO-T) and Investors Group. They have other interests as well. From a dividend point of view this is a safe stock to own. You are going to lose a whole lot of money by owning this company, but in terms of upside, they have not shown that they have been able to generate any sort of catalytic reason for the stock to accelerate. Dividend yield of 4.5%.  

Has minimal exposure to this. A 4%+ dividend is a fairly attractive place to have some money parked. Doesn't see any significant downside.