FFC News and Press, Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Securities Income Fund Incorporated From 03/20/20

Is now the time to buy? For the last year or so we have attempted to invest conservatively, focusing on U.S. Treasury and Agency securities, as well as very high credit quality securities in corporate bonds and asset-backed securities. We tried to stay on the sidelines of risk as much as ...

Co-produced with PendragonY Rollercoasters can be lots of fun, but … Since the last week of February, the markets have been quite volatile, almost like a rollercoaster ride. While many people enjoy riding a rollercoaster, it's less than enjoyable when the market value of yo...

Until recently, markets have been making new all-time highs. However, the market has been on a losing streak this past week due to fears of the spread of Coronavirus outside China and its impact on the world economy. The S&P 500 has lost nearly 7.5% from its peak. Time and again, it has ...

Strategy for a Sustainable, Inflation-Adjusted 7% Income As any observer of markets is aware, income has become expensive. One of my favorite wrappers for income investing - Closed-End Funds or CEFs - is a particularly clear example of this market trend. In a way this phenomenon should not...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist Flaherty & Crumrine offers several funds in the preferred and fixed-income space. Flaherty & Crumrine Dynamic Preferred and Income Fund (DFP) is one such fund that we are holding in our Income Generator portfolio at the CEF/ETF Income Laboratory. W...

Co-produced with Preferred Stock Trader Thesis Anyone who follows the preferred stock IPO market is well aware of the extraordinary low yields on newly issued preferred stocks. Just when we think we have hit the bottom in preferred stock yields, new preferred stocks IPO at e...

The Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Securities Fund (NYSE: FFC ) with $927 million in net assets is a closed-end-fund investing in preferred stocks and other income-focused securities. The fund utilizes a leveraged strategy to distribute a monthly dividend that currently yields ...

Co-produced with Beyond Saving At High Dividend Opportunities , we remain committed to providing our members with reports about the best fixed-income CEFs, preferred stocks, and bonds. We have been increasing the allocation of our model portfolio to high-yield preferred sto...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist . This article was originally published on November 19 th , 2019. Closed-end funds have two main draws to them; they can be purchased at a discount to their net asset value and they have higher than typical payouts. Today, I wanted to cover the various metr...

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