FFC News and Press, Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Securities Income Fund Incorporated From 01/04/21

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Securities Income Fund (FFC) seeks high current income through investment in preferred stocks, convertible preferred issues, and hybrid capital securities, explains Marty Fridson, dividend expert and editor of Forbes/Fridson Income Securities Investor. For ...

This closed-end fund is popular amongst investors. It has performed well, and the leverage has worked for it. Let's talk about this one and see if we would recommend it today. For further details see: FFC: Solid Yield, But Too Expensive

FFC revised its financial leverage strategy in 2019, which bumped up its expense ratio from 0.87% to 2.52%. However, the strategy has worked successfully and dividend payouts have increased. So long as FFC’s current 11.4% premium to NAV ratio and expense ratio hold, its dividen...

We are in a persistent pattern of low interest rates, whereby investors are getting negative yields if we factor in inflation. In this article, we highlight some of the risks involving "safe" investments such as bank deposits, CDs, money market funds, brokerage accounts and insurance ...

65% of my retirement is betting on these two sectors. I see opportunities now that will provide years of income. Income investors need to scope out current opportunities for long-term gain. For further details see: Over Half Of My Retirement Is Invested In These Sectors ...

Preferred securities can carry features of both equities and fixed-income, while providing a fixed dividend payment. They are traditionally more stable than equities, due to the features that make them a fixed-income investment. We are looking at how CEFs in this space plummeted i...

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Securities Fund Incorporated (FFC) declares $0.129/share monthly dividend, in line with previous.Forward yield 7.29%Payable Nov. 30; for shareholders of record Nov. 20; ex-div Nov. 19.See FFC Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. ...

The bulls had a good ride with equities from March 2009 to February 2020. It is looking like the COVID-19 recession could be deeper and more drawn-out than originally forecasted. Investors might want to start moving money out of equities and into lower-risk investments. This a...

We believe the overall credit health of the preferred market remains strong. Fixed income markets have seemingly come full circle thus far in 2020. Preferreds with exposure to commercial real estate, consumer spending, and energy all still offer above-average yield and total retur...

Steadily lower yields and heightened volatility make relative value opportunities an attractive alpha generation strategy in CEFs. We take a look at the relative value opportunities on offer in the preferreds CEF sector. A couple of rotation opportunities within the Flaherty fund ...