Power Corp (POW-T)

Insurance space is cheaper than the banks, better growth, lower payout ratios. Fairly exempt from tariffs. Cradle-to-grave financial services. Beautiful dividend. Nice discount to NAV. Upside from private capital and nice little investments like Wealthsimple. Another quiet place to put $$ to work.

Sleep easy at night, tends to move up over time. Safe and steady rather than the kind of growth you'd get from a BN or one of the banks. Used to be dead money, but that's changed. Attractive dividend. A good name to fund your retirement.

Good way to get exposure to GWO lifeco. Essentially an asset manager that has positions in public and private companies. Trades at 25% discount to NAV, and GWO is about 70% of its NAV. Defensive way to play the space. Yielding slightly higher than GWO.

With rates going down, you could consider a fixed-rate preferred. He's been buying POW.PR.D, yielding about 6.1%. Beauty of it is that it doesn't reset, it's perpetual. So if the BOC moves rates lower, these preferred shares won't reset to a lower level. Gets more valuable as the BOC lowers interest rates.

The theme for today is "What wins Stanley Cups is defense." Very defensive name. Rare combination of dividend that grows every year by ~7%, value, resilience. Trades at discount of 23% to NAV; he expects this to narrow to 10-15% as the company scales more into alternative assets. 

Tepid sentiment on GWO has provided an opportunity to buy; now has upwards earnings momentum. Trades at 9x PE, growing at 14.6%. May be able to get it slightly cheaper. Yield is 4.80%. 

In his dividend portfolio. NAV is around $64, so it's trading at a discount as usual. He likes that they continue to increase dividend. In current environment, asset management is more volatile but life insurance is less. Yield is ~5%.

Great as a diversified financial. Great dividend payer and grower. Technically hanging in really well. Great long-term hold. Trading now at the 50-day MA. Yield is 5.1%.

He's been buying. Great valuation, holding-company discount, decent growth rate of 6-8%. Nice dividend with a good payout ratio. Technically over its skis, but likes the name long term. Better entry at $44-45.

Only problem is that when bull markets start to give way to bear markets, people look for areas immune from tariffs. If the economy rights itself, and you see $$ going into names like tech again, this type of name will fall off. If we go into a real downturn, money will leave the market and this name will go lower along with everything else.

Terrific FMV. Stock's at a point where it has to break out technically, but it's a story unfolding on the back of more engaged management. Big discount to book value, lots of upside. Could probably survive a Trump walloping. Nice dividend of 4.5%.

He's a real chicken, and looking for stocks that won't hurt too much if tariffs go the wrong way. Life insurance is fairly insulated. Won out as his pick compared to MFC. Cheap at 8.6x 2025, growing 6-7%. Market thinks growth will be 12% next year. A win-by-not-losing choice. Yield is 5.5%.

Owns Mackenzie Investors Group, GWO. Investments in names like Wealthsimple and asset management. Alternative lending business. Many different ways to surface value.

Both companies have done quite well and both are cheap with secure dividends. It has been a good year for the sector but they may not get the same returns going forward.

Holding company; not strictly speaking a lifeco, though a lot of its NAV is tied up in GWO. Major investor in Wealthsimple. Multiple lines of business make it less volatile than an insurance company. Meanders along. Yield is north of 5%, growing at single digits.

Own and sleep well at night. No qualms. Capital appreciation plus dividend should throw off high single-digit or low-double returns.

He hasn't looked at this recently. This struggles at $42-44. Upside is limited. Be patient and buy on pullbacks.

Nice fat dividend yield of almost 6%, which grows 7-8%. Solid story. He worked with the CEO years ago. IGM is doing better in the US, and GWO has always been one of the better companies. PE should rise from 8x to 10-12x when interest rates come off. Yield is 5.86%.

Trades at about a 25-30% discount to NAV. Low-risk play with upside potential.

He owns it for the dividend. As a holding company, trades at discount to NAV. For better rates of return and capital gains, you may want to own the companies beneath its umbrella; for example, own GWO. Similar issue with BN.