There will be no more talk of conversion and its potential impact on corporate dividends. It's all about operating conditions now. Here's where we separate the chaff from the wheat. Read More

Five of the six How They Rate companies that cut distributions last month did so to prepare for their corporate conversions. And with passage into 2011 we’ll return to a single Dividend Watch List. Read More

Beer, liquor, oil and gas mix in this month’s Watch List. Read More

Unit prices for Penn West Energy Trust (TSX: PWT-U, NYSE: PWE) and Peyto Energy Trust (TSX: PEY-U, OTC: PEYUF) rallied on news of their respective conversion plans and distribution reductions. Read More

It’s important to distinguish between distribution cuts based on underlying business weakness and those made to prepare for corporate conversion. Read More

Rogers Sugar Income Fund (TSX: RSI-U, OTC: RSGUF) is preparing to make the transition to a corporate structure. Once it does it will yield about 7 percent. Read More

Only one company in the Canadian Edge coverage universe trimmed its dividend last month. Avenir Diversified Income Trust (TSX: AVF-U, OTC: AVNDF) also announced it would shed non-core assets as it becomes a corporation. Read More

Daylight Energy (TSX: DAY, OTC: DAYYF) announced a reduction in its post-conversion dividend that was largely determined by natural gas prices. Read More

Distribution cuts these days are all about after Jan. 1, 2011. Strong businesses will be able to sustain payouts similar to what they've maintained as income trusts. Read More

One converting trust announced a plan to transition with a dividend cut. Nine will hold the line. This is yet more evidence of the emergence of a new kind of high-yielding investment vehicle in the income trust wake. Or should we now call it a party? Read More