New Dawn CEDIF Companies
New Dawn Holdings provides investors with the opportunity to support local, innovative, growth-oriented companies while earning competitive dividends.
The New Dawn CEDIF family of companies (New Dawn Innovation Fund, New Dawn Community Investment and New Dawn Holdings) have been participating in the CEDIF program since 2004.
Over ten years, New Dawn CEDIFS have raised $11 million for direct investment in Cape Breton. To learn more about where these funds have been invested, see below.
What is a CEDIF?
Each year Nova Scotians invest more than $600 million in RRSPs. Less than 2% of this is reinvested in Nova Scotia. With New Dawn Holdings, your investment dollars stay in Cape Breton where they are put to work in your community and you earn a 35% non-refundable provincial income tax credit, in addition to annual dividends.
By investing in a locally-owned business with a strong and consistent growth trajectory, your investment enables a local business to access the capital it needs to expand its facilities and operations and to continue to meet the demand for its products.
New Dawn Holdings allows both investors and businesses to further the vision of creating a self-reliant people in a vibrant community.
Benefits of Investing
- RRSP eligible
- No Annual Management Fee
- 2.5% Annual Dividends (*)
- 35% Provincial Non-Refundable Income Tax Credit
- 100% of your money in invested in Cape Breton
How it Works
A $1000 investment would qualify for a non-refundable provincial income tax credit of $350 on your 2015 return.
Alternatively, an investor may carry this non-refundable income tax credit forward for 7 years or back for 3 years.
The minimum investment is $1000 and the maximum investment is $15,000 per year, per shareholder.
The investment is for a 5 year period. Your investment may be rolled over after 5 years for an additional 20% equity tax credit (if the CEDIF meets certain conditions). Your investment may be rolled over once more at the 10 year mark (if the CEDIF meets certain conditions) for another 10% equity tax credit.
That’s a 65% equity tax credit (or $650 on your original $1000 investment) over 15 years on all investments.
Existing RRSPs with other financial institutions can be transferred, without penalty into CEDIF self-directed RRSPs. In transferring existing RRSPs into self-directed CEDIF RRSPs, you qualify for the 35% non-refundable tax credit on the full transfer amount.
Selecting New Dawn Investments
All potential New Dawn Holdings investments are reviewed and approved by the Investment Committee appointed by the New Dawn Holdings board.
Potential investment recipients must be active for-profit businesses based in Cape Breton and listed with the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies.
Prospective investees must be commercially viable, have a sound business plan reflecting local market conditions, good management, and potential for growth and profitability.
Following approval of a five-year investment, New Dawn CEDIF businesses must submit annual financial statements for board assessment and pay interest monthly.
All investees must allow New Dawn Holdings to appoint, with full Board rights and responsibilities, a representative of New Dawn Holdings to their Board.
THIS CEDIF OFFERING MAY BE A HIGH RISK INVESTMENT. THIS OFFERING IS MADE THROUGH AN OFFERING DOCUMENT, WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED FROM AN AUTHORIZED SALES AGENT (Leonard Murray, New Dawn Holdings, PO Box 1055, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Phone (902) 539-9560 Ext. 0). THIS OFFERING CONSTITUTES AN EXEMPT OFFERING OF THESE SECURITIES ONLY IN NOVA SCOTIA BY AUTHORIZED SALES AGENTS. INVESTORS SHOULD READ THE OFFERING DOCUMENT BEFORE MAKING AN INVESTMENT DECISION.
*Past performance does not indicate future results
