RE:Oil and Canadian BanksQuadravest will not lower the dividends, it will let the nav drop like all the others into "occasionally paying". The SEC is a US thing. Split funds are banned in the US.
deisman03 wrote: Canadian banks are heavily invested in the "oil" industry, at all levels from exporation to site build up to operation, maintenance, clean up and selling the stock of the companies involved.
When the oil patch isn't producing profitable results, the banks tend to lose their income revenue stream and it shows in their distributions as well as evaluations.
It's IMHO that our present 15% distribution came about because of recent high oil prices and the maturity date of the trust coming to fruition, with a bundle of cash and assets that had to be trimmed before the trust terminated.
Now that they've followed through with extending the longevity of the trust's expiry date, they may have to trim that 15% distribution back to 10% or even lower.
Their only other option is to sell more units, which will increase the payouts and burn up cashflow even faster.
If they aren't careful, this trust will start looking like a "ponzi scheme" and the SEC will be on them.
That would be a worst case scenario but it's not impossible if the people managing this investment vehicle aren't watched very closely.