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BROOKFIELD RENEWABLE ENERGY PARTNERS L.P. $37.27 (Toronto symbol BEP.UN; Units outstanding: 265.2 million; Market cap: $10.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 6.6%; www.brookfieldrenewable.com) owns 207 hydroelectric generating stations, 37 wind farms and five natural gas-fired plants. In all, it has over 7,284 megawatts of generating capacity. Roughly 24% of that capacity is in Canada, with another 50% in the U.S., 13% in Latin America and 8% in Europe. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Brookfield’s cash flow per share rose 2.2%, to $0.46 from $0.45 a year earlier....
ISHARES MSCI BRAZIL INDEX FUND $22.11 (New York symbol EWZ; buy or sell through brokers) is an ETF that’s designed to track the Brazilian stock market. Its top holdings are AmBev SA (beer and beverages), 10.8%; Cia Itau Unibanco Holding (banking), 10.0%; Banco Brandesco SA, 7.1%; Petrobras (oil and gas), 5.3%; BRF SA (food), 4.3%; Cielo SA (payment processing), 3.6%; Ultrapar SA (gas distribution and petrochemicals), 3.1%; and Itausa Investimentos SA (financial services), 2.9%. iShares launched the ETF on July 10, 2000. It has a 0.64% expense ratio....
ENBRIDGE INC. $46.75 (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares outstanding: 867.6 million; Market cap: $40.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Divd. yield: 4.5%; www.enbridge.com) has agreed to sell 56.6 million common shares at $40.70 a share to several major brokerage firms to raise $2.3 billion. Enbridge will put that cash toward $18.2 billion in spending on new pipelines, wind farms and other projects between 2016 and 2019. The company has already secured shipping commitments from oil producers and other clients. That should cut the risk for these new projects. The extra cash flow from the new operations will allow Enbridge to increase its dividend by 10% to 12% a year through 2019; the current annual rate of $2.12 a share yields 4.5%. However, the stock is somewhat expensive at 21.0 times its projected 2016 earnings of $2.23 a share....
MARKET VECTORS VIETNAM ETF $14.25 (New York symbol VNM; buy or sell through brokers) holds Vietnamese companies and foreign firms that get a significant amount of their revenue from Vietnam. The ETF’s top holdings are Vincom Corp. (real estate), 7.8%; Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam, 7.5%; Masan Group (a food, resources and banking conglomerate), 6.5%; Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Bank, 6.3%; and Baoviet Holdings (insurance), 6.1%. The ETF cuts risk by investing part of its assets in firms that are based outside of Vietnam but still do business there. That’s a better approach than adding thinly traded or illiquid shares of smaller Vietnamese firms....