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Canadian Energy Trusts: The Best Long Term Income and Dollar Hedge?

IMO one of the best Canadian royalty trusts just announced that it will convert to a corporation and continue to pay a high dividend: Crescent Point Energy. Very well managed, aggressively hedged, a big player in the high netback Canadian Bakken area. CPGCF in the US and CPG-UN.TO, but I guess it will lose the UN once it becomes a regular corporation.

Forex: Why the Dollar Is Staying Strong

Costard wrote:

" and wealth will resume its transition towards a medium that retains its value. Jury's out on what this will be... my guess is scarcer commodities, gold for its value or oil for its utility. "

The problem is that neither gold nor oil has the sheer scale that is necessary to store the value that is residing in dollars.

There is no single thing, not a commodity nor a currency, that is large enough to even seriously compete with the dollar. What we can have is just a general move towards more "risky" assets like equities, bonds, commodities, etc. But this will probably happen later rather than sooner.