High Quality Assets Plus a Tax Exemption

When Ottawa moved to put income trusts on an equal footing with corporations, it exempted REITs. We’ve recommended these two REITs for some time, mainly because of the quality of their assets.

We continue to view both as buys.

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25 (Toronto symbol… Read More

A high-quality REIT Fund

ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $14.78 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through a broker) holds the 12 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. The weight of any one REIT, in terms of market capitalization (unit price times… Read More

New Initiatives Could Bring Higher Payouts

LEGACY HOTELS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $8.75 (Toronto symbol LGY.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; SI Rating: Extra risk) spent $1.1 million in the second quarter of 2006 studying new initiatives aimed at improving its long-term growth, including new acquisitions and condominium projects… Read More

Legacy Offers Good Value

LEGACY HOTELS REIT $8.15 (Toronto symbol LGY.UN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) owns 24 luxury hotels with over 10,700 guestrooms in Canada and the United States, including The Fairmont Royal York in Toronto and the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Quebec City. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts… Read More

The 12 Factors We Use to Judge Trusts

In evaluating investments, many investors focus on what we’d call ‘investment outputs’, such as earnings, dividends, cash flow, return on equity, sales growth and so on. These are all important, of course, but you shouldn’t focus on them to the exclusion of what you might… Read More

We Like Most of This Fund’s REITs

IUNITS S&P/TSX CAPPED REIT INDEX FUND $14.22 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through a broker) holds 12 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs). In the Capped REIT Index, the weight of any one REIT, in terms of market capitalization (unit price times units outstanding),… Read More