AAIC News and Press, Arlington Asset Investment Corp Class A (new) From 04/25/22

We picked up two investments that carry excellent yields combined with some healthy upside in the share price. We also dropped one of our positions. Despite this being an extremely difficult period for high-yield investors, we earned over 11% in a little over a month. Why are so m...

The recent rise in inflation has been top of mind for income investors. In this article, we take a look at some of the things investors ought to consider if they decide to hedge their inflation exposure. And take a look at the different instruments at the investor disposal. ...

We'll lock in another big dividend yield with a respectable amount of upside. These shares have underperformed recently, opening up a more attractive opportunity. As part of financing the trade, we're working on rebalancing the portfolio. We closed out one of our equity REIT posit...

Yesterday, we were talking about one preferred share and highlighting a 13% yield that wasn’t a great deal. Today, we’re flipping the script by talking about one of the 12.5% dividend yielders that belong in your portfolio. This is one of the mortgage REITs I own. Sc...

This series projects AGNC’s income statement for the first quarter of 2022. These projections help readers understand how some of the fixed-rate agency mREIT sector performed (valuable insight). I’m projecting AGNC will report a modest increase in net spread income for t...

We've got a great opportunity for investors to earn over 7% with low risk and a high probability of a dividend increase later this year. There are plenty of attractive opportunities in the sector now as share prices fell much harder than book value, for some REITs. There are a few...

Rising short-term rates have been one of the key drivers of markets so far this year. One way to take advantage of this sharp rise in short-term rates is to tilt to high reset-yield Fix/Float preferreds with relatively near call dates. Even if these preferreds are redeemed, they w...

We've got so many exciting developments in the sector, but we'll focus in on two of them. One is a mortgage REIT with a massive dividend yield reporting a huge drop in book value per share, which makes their dividend yield look even more doubtful. Another is a mortgage REIT tradin...

We take a look at the action in preferreds and baby bonds through the first full week of April and highlight some of the key themes we are watching. Preferreds had a bad week and remain under pressure from rising Treasury yields. Only the Energy sector is still in the green year-to-da...

There are several options here for high dividend yields and the dividends are set to increase over the coming years as short-term rates increase. We share our most recent pick as it abruptly went on another sale. There's one option we really don't like. Comparing the future cash f...