RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:DFN unit nav to June 21 = approx: $14.73AnEducator wrote: It is essential to point out that fund managers also charge their requisite management fee which obviously has a deleterious effect on the NAV.
Please note that I am not dissuading anyone from purchasing these funds. At the right time and price, they can be fabulous investments.
AnEducator wrote: In general, all the split capital shares erode over time because the distributions they pay out exceed the dividends collected from their underlying portfolios. The proof is in the NAVs: Most of the capital shares were issued at $15.00, but their NAVs are now nowhere near those values.
This does not necessarily make them bad investments since markets tend to rise over the long term and the lofty payouts mitigate much of the erosion in the NAV.
It can take years for the NAV to drop below the payment threshold but once this happens, distributions cease and most investors sell, driving market prices below true value.
Commenting wrote: AnEducator - When you say "Investors need to realize that dividends on these splits is ....", to which 'splits', in particular, do you refer?
In most cases the dividends collected by the SPLIT fund, barely cover the payout to preferreds shares. IN DFN 's case the , their preferred shares have the lowest payout of those in Quadravest, and not by just a little. FFN's payout annually is 95 cents and has the same 10$ value DFN preferreds have. DFN pays out 55 cents , so 40 cents a share annually. That would be the reason DFN preferreds have been selling well below their pegged NAV.
Without Capital gains in the combined nav of the holdings, the UNIT NAV only goes down, when you pay out 10 cents a months. DFN has over the years done many offerings at big premiums to NAV, and this helped keep the UNIT NAV propped up. Until recently. This fall DFN preferreds get revalued more in line with the current market. That wont help them keep the UNIT NAV proppped up...