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Posted on 24/06/09

Blue-chip preferreds let you sleep at night

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?In our recurring quest for yield-generating investment ideas, we turn our attention once again to preferred shares - which, for many investors, represent a dark and murky corner of the market, sharing traits with both common shares and corporate bonds while not entirely resembling either. We have once again enlisted our friends at the Preferred Share Desk of Desjardins Securities in Toronto, to help point us to their favourite picks in the preferred share universe, which has been offering both strong yields and rising prices in recent months.

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