asset management

A: Canoe EIT Income Fund, $11.93 symbol EIT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 90.1 million; Market cap: $1.1 billion; www.canoefinancial.com), changed its name from EnerVest Diversified Income Trust in November 2013. The stock symbol remained the same.


Canoe EIT is a closed-end fund that invests in a portfolio of dividend-paying stocks....
A: Brookfield Property Partners LP, $30.44, symbol BPY.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 262.0 million; Market cap: $21.6 billion; www.brookfieldpropertypartners.com), owns, operates and invests in commercial real estate worldwide.


Brookfield Asset Management (symbol BAM.A on Toronto) first sold shares of Brookfield Property Partners to the public in April 2013....
POWER CORP. $32 (Conservative Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 414.9 million; Market cap: $13.3 billion; Dividend yield: 4.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.powercorporation. com) is a diversified holding company. It gets most of its income from its 65.6% stake in Power Financial (Toronto symbol PWF).


In turn, Power Financial’s assets include 67.6% of GreatWest Lifeco, one of Canada’s largest life insurers; and 61.5% of IGM Financial (see below), a leading Canadian mutual-fund provider.


Through its 50% stake in Parjointco, Power Financial also holds 55.5% of Swiss-listed Pargesa Holdings SA....
STATE STREET CORP. $84 (New York symbol STT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; s/o: 385.7 million; Market cap: $32.4 billion; p/s ratio: 3.1; Divd. yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to operators of mutual funds and pension plans....
In 2017, mutual funds face increasing competition from ETFs as a low-cost alternative. But here’s a look back at a fund that continues to attract the same interest as it did here in May 2009...

TD HEALTH SCIENCES FUND $13.54 (CWA Rating: Speculative) (TD Asset Management, P.O....
Dear client,


J.P. Morgan has jumped 16% in the past three months, while Wells Fargo is up 12%.


Those gains are partly because the new Trump administration has pledged to reduce some of the previous administration’s banking regulations....
Dear client,


J.P. Morgan has jumped 16% in the past three months, while Wells Fargo is up 12%.


Those gains are partly because the new Trump administration has pledged to reduce some of the previous administration’s banking regulations....
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS $68.16 (New York symbol BR; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (201-714-3000; www.broadridge. com; Shares outstanding: 119.1 million; Market cap: $8.0 billion; Dividend yield: 1.9%) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing and transaction clearing.


Investor communications makes up 72% of the company’s revenue....
LOBLAW COMPANIES $67.82 (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 403.5 million; Market cap: $27.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.5%; www.loblaw.ca) plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020, and 30% by 2030. Those targets are in line with recent federal and provincial government goals.


To reach its targets, the company will install new refrigeration equipment that uses carbon dioxide as a refrigerant instead of harmful hydrofluorocarbons....
STATE STREET CORP. $79 (New York symbol STT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 385.7 million; Market cap: $30.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.0; Dividend yield: 1.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.statestreet.com) sells accounting and administrative services to the operators of mutual funds and pension plans....