Canadian Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs)

Another article on Canadian dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) appeared in this weekend in the Globe and Mail. As with other articles on DRIPs, columnist Rob Carrick outlined how one can use DRIPs to build a significant portfolio of stocks and how this is a “get rich slowly” kind of method. This method he calls the classic DRIP.

As a twist though Carrick focused on how you can also use online brokers to start your dividend reinvestment plan. With the help of Robert Gibb, who is probably better known as OperaBob of the The DRiP Investing Resource Center message boards, Carrick highlights how to use the online brokerage houses associated with Canadian banks and those that are standalones.

The piece also lays out how the various online brokers handle their DRIP transactions in a table. While all except for one do not charge for using the DRIP feature, the clear winner in terms of number of available stocks to choose from is TD Waterhouse.

The full article and chart can be found at Building wealth, a DRIP at a time page.

Happy DRIPping,
Ken


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Here is the latest round of updates to my Canadian Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) list. I have updated the following stocks based on your feedback. Please keep the updates coming!

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Thanks for reading,
Ken

First off I want to thank everyone who has written to me asking when the site would be updated. I realize that there has been a long stretch since my last major update. And as you can see below, there have been many changes regarding Canadian DRIPs!

As well, thanks to everyone for their comments to let me know of changes to the company plans on my list. I used those as my starting point and then checked every plan for accuracy. Also, I have verified every link to the company dividend reinvestment plan details and Globe Investor stocker ticker.

As always, if you see any discrepancies please post a comment. The information you provide is always appreciated.

Happing DRIPping,
Ken


Added:
1. Brookfield Office Properties Canada (BOX.UN-T)
2. Churchill Corporation (CUQ-T)
3. Dundee International REIT (DI.UN-T)
4. Eagle Energy Trust (EGL.UN-T)
5. Energy Income Fund (ENI.UN-T)
6. Gibson Energy Inc. (GEI-T)
7. GMIncome & Growth Fund (GMF.UN-T)
8. Horizon Alpha Pro ETFs
9. Homburg Canada REIT (HCR.UN-T)
10. Husky Energy (HSE-T)
11. INDEXPLUS Dividend Fund (IDF.UN-T)
12. Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd. (LIQ-T)
13. MOSAID Technologies (MSD-T)
14. NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT (NWH.UN-T)
15. PATHFINDER Convertible Debenture Fund (PCD.UN-T)
16. REIT INDEXPLUS Income Fund (IDR.UN-T)
17. Retrocom Mid-Market REIT (RMM.UN-T)
18. Rogers Communications Inc.(RCI.B)
19. Senior Gold Producers Income Corp (GPC-T)
20. TransGlobe REIT (TGA.UN-T)
21. Troy Resources NL (TRY-T)
22. Valener Inc. (VNR-T)
23. Yellow Media Inc.(YLO-T)


Deleted:
1. Arctic Glacier Income Fund (AG.UN-T)
2. Caldwell Partners International Inc. (CWL.A-T)
3. Capital Power Income L.P. (CPA.UN-T)
4. Citadel Diversified Investment Trust (CTD.UN-T)
5. CML HealthCare Income Fund (CLC.UN-T)
6. Energy Plus Income Trust (EPF.UN-T)
7. European Premium Dividend Fund (EPD.UN-T)
8. Financial Preferred Securities Corporation (FPR.PR.A-T)
9. InnVest REIT (INN.UN-T) – suspended August 12, 2011
10. Loblaw Companies Limited (L-T)
11. NuVista Energy Ltd.(NVA-T)
12. Oil Sands Sector Fund (OSF.UN-T)
13. Pantera Drilling Income Trust (RIG.UN-T)
14. Paramount Energy Trust (PMY.UN-T)
15. Peyto Energy Trust (PEY.UN-T)
16. Sustainable Production Energy Trust (SPU.UN-T)
17. Western Financial Group (WES-T)
18. Westshore Terminals Income Fund (WTE.UN-T)


Updated:
1. AltaGas Income Trust changed to AltaGas Ltd. (ALA-T)
2. Arc Energy Trust changed to ARC Resources Ltd. (ARX-T)
3. Bank of Montreal (BMO-T) – removed discount
4. Canexus Income Fund changed to Canexus Corporation (CUS-T)
5. Charter REIT changed to Partners REIT (PAR.UN-T)
6. Daylight Resources Trust changed to Daylight Energy Ltd. (DAY-T)
7. Enbridge Income Fund changed to Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc.(ENF-T)
8. Enerplus Resources Fund changed to Enerplus Corporation (ERF-T)
9. Enervest Diversified Income (EIT.UN-T) - removed minimum
10. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Trust changed to Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC-T)
11. Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P. changed to Versen Inc. (VSN-T)
12. Freehold Royalty Trust changed to Freehold Royalties Ltd. (FRU-T)
13. Just Energy Income Fund changed to Just Energy Group (JE-T)
14. Keyera Facilities Income Fund changed to Keyera Corp. (KEY-T)
15. Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund changed to Capstone Infrastructure Corporation (CSE-T) and Share Purchase Plan (SPP) terminated
16. NAL Oil & Gas Trust changed to NAL Energy Corp. (NAE-T)
17. Northland Power Income Fund changed to Northland Power Inc. (NPI-T)
18. Parkland Income Fund changed to Parkland Fuel Corporation (PKI-T)
19. Pengrowth Energy Trust changed to Pengrowth Energy Corporation (PGF-T)
20. Penn West Energy Trust changed to Penn West Exploration (PWT-T)
21. Phoenix Technology Income Fund changed to Phoenix Technology Services (PHX-T)
22. Provident Energy Trust changed to Provident Energy Ltd. (PVE-T)
23. Telus (T-T) – removed discount
24. Vermilion Energy Trust changed to Vermilion Energy Inc.(VET-T)
25. Zargon Energy Trust changed to Zargon Oil & Gas Ltd.(ZAR-T)


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I have added the following new plan:

NuVista Energy Ltd. (NVA-T)
NuVista Energy Ltd.-Announces Dividend Reinvestment Plan

I have updated the following plan:

TransAlta Corporation (TA-T) - 3% discount added
TransAlta declares dividend

As always, if you see any discrepancies please post a comment.

Happy DRIPping,
Ken

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Dear readers,

I am sure some of you came to my site over the past week only to be greeted with a message that my blog had been removed.

Well, last Saturday Google decided to mark this blog as spam. When they do that they take down the site until I can prove I am the owner. Once I did then they had to do a manual review of my blog to see if they could re-instate it. I eventually escalated the problem up the chain of command and the site was re-activated this afternoon.

I am not sure how this occurred in the first place. My site has been up since 2005 and in those past five years nothing like this has ever happened. I am sorry if this outage has inconvenienced anyone.

Thank you all for your patience and I hope that you will continue to visit my site in the future.

Sincerely,
Ken

Globe and Mail columnist John Heinzl is at it again. On Saturday July 3, 2010 he did an in-depth report on dividend reinvestment plans and included a feature on Robert Gibb, who is probably better known as OperaBob of the
The DRiP Investing Resource Center message boards.

Gibb highlights some of his holdings in the article, gives some excellent reasons on why one should hold DRIPs and then talks about how one can start becoming involved in DRIPs.

I also really like this quote from the article: "It’s a get-rich-eventually scheme." How true!

The full article can be found at DRIPping your way to wealth page.

Happy DRIPping,
Ken


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John Heinzl contributed an interesting article regarding income trusts to the June 18, 2010 edition of The Globe and Mail. In the column, he basically gives a state of the union update on income trusts and their conversions to corporations.

He describes the conversion process in the following statement: "As an income trust, a business can distribute its earnings to shareholders and thereby pay no tax. Concerned by what it described as tax leakage, the federal government announced that trusts would have to start paying taxes in 2011 (real estate investment trusts meeting certain conditions were excluded)."

He goes on to state: "Income trusts as we know them will largely be gone by the time a new trust tax kicks in next year. In their place will be a new category of stock that in some cases will be more attractive to some investors than trusts were."

"I’m calling it the high-yielding corporation," said Harry Levant, the independent analyst behind the IncomeResearch.ca website. “It’s a new beast that has come out of the income trust process and demand for income."

"At their peak, there were about 265 income trusts listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Takeovers and privatizations will reduce the total number of high-yield corporations to around 90, in Mr. Levant’s estimation."

The full article can be found at: A new investment beast: the high-yield corporation page.

Happy DRIPping,
Ken

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