Topic: How To Invest

Hi Pat: Can you give me a report on Inter Pipeline Fund? Thank you for your good advice.

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Inter Pipeline Fund, $18.75, symbol IPL.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 264.1 million; Market cap: $5.0 billion; www.interpipelinefund.com), transports, stores, markets and processes oil and natural gas. The fund has three divisions: pipelines transports 35% of Canadian oil sands production and 15% of western Canadian conventional crude oil; extraction processes 40% of Alberta’s exported natural gas into natural gas liquids; and the storage division, which operates under the Simon Storage and TLG banners. In the three months ended September 30, 2011, Inter Pipeline’s revenue rose 30.4%, to $302.1 million from $231.7 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit jumped 43.3%, to $0.43 from $0.30. That’s mainly because the company’s pipelines shipped 993,300 barrels a day in the quarter, up 24.6% from 797,300 barrels a year earlier. The increased volumes came mostly from a $1.8-billion expansion of the fund’s Corridor pipeline, which was completed in January 2011. Inter Pipeline’s outlook generally rises and falls with oil prices. Lower oil prices cut drilling activity and…