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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $26.68 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 321.9 million; Market cap: $8.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.2%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 305 shopping centres in Canada, including 16 properties under development. The trust pays monthly distributions of $0.1175 a unit, for a 5.2% annual yield. These payouts accounted for 90.4% of RioCan’s cash flow in 2015. However, 31.5% of the trust’s investors take part in its distribution reinvestment plan, so they get units rather than cash. On this basis, RioCan’s cash payouts were a more reasonable 62.0% of its cash flow. (If you want the units instead of cash, you still have to pay income taxes on your distributions for the year when you receive them.) This week, RioCan announced that with the April 2016 distribution, it eliminated the 3.1% discount it offered to unitholders who reinvested their distributions....
GREAT-WEST LIFECO $35.17 (Toronto symbol GWO; Shares outstanding: 993.4 million; Market cap: $35.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 3.9%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is one of Canada’s largest insurance firms. It also offers mutual funds and wealth management. Power Financial owns 67.2% of Great-West. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Great-West’s earnings rose 4.5%, to $0.69 a share from $0.66 a year earlier. As of December 31, 2015, the company had $1.2 trillion of assets under administration, up 14.0% from a year ago....
GREAT-WEST LIFECO $35.17 (Toronto symbol GWO; Shares outstanding: 993.4 million; Market cap: $35.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 3.9%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is one of Canada’s largest insurance firms. It also offers mutual funds and wealth management. Power Financial owns 67.2% of Great-West. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Great-West’s earnings rose 4.5%, to $0.69 a share from $0.66 a year earlier. As of December 31, 2015, the company had $1.2 trillion of assets under administration, up 14.0% from a year ago....
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