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BMO Dividend Fund $44.99

BMO DIVIDEND FUND $44.99 (BMO Mutual Funds, 77 King Street West, Suite 4200, Royal Trust Tower, Toronto, Ont., M5K 1J5, 1-800-665-7700; Web site: www.bmo.com. No load — deal directly with the bank) (CWA Rating: Conservative) currently holds about 36.3% of its portfolio in the Financial services industry. Its next-largest holdings are Energy at 24.4% and Consumer discretionary at 9.1%.

BMO Dividend Fund’s largest holdings are Manulife Financial, Bank of Nova Scotia, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Power Financial Corporation, Toronto-Dominion Bank, TransCanada Corporation, Imperial Oil, Suncor Energy, EnCana Corporation, Enbridge Inc., Husky Energy and Sun Life Financial.

Over the last five years, the $5.2 billion BMO Dividend Fund has posted a 12.1% annual rate of return. That’s under the S&P/TSX’s gain of 18.2%. However, the S&P/TSX index held a high 40% or so of its holdings in Resources shares. That’s been one of the best-performing, although riskiest, sectors. The fund lost 5.6% over the last year, compared to a gain of 6.8% for the S&P/TSX index. BMO Dividend’s MER is 1.71%.

BMO Dividend Fund is a buy.

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