0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 8, 2015Targa Resources Partners LP Sells a Very Tasty Fixed to Floating Preferred IssueWhile we are not buying perpetual preferreds at this moment, if we were we would have to give the new [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPage, Featured Articles Posted October 8, 2015Targa Resources Partners LP 9% Series A Fixed to Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred UnitsDate Issued 10/7/2015 Shares Issued 4,400,000 Overallotment Shares 660,000 S&P Rating NR Moodys Rating NR [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 8, 2015Investors are Hungry for Low Quality Instruments This WeekWe always watch a few indicators to see just how income investors are acting on any given day–let’s call it [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPage, Featured Articles Posted October 7, 2015Entergy Arkansas 6.45% Cumulative Preferred StockS&P Rating BB+ Moodys Rating Ba1 Security Ticker Symbol EGXKP Market Traded ON OTC Interest Payment Paid on [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 6, 2015We Are Adding Arbor Realty Trust Baby Bonds To The Short/Medium Duration PortfolioWhile we are not crazy about commercial finance REIT Arbor Realty Trust (ticker:ABR), we are fairly high on their baby [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 6, 2015One Reason Why We Have Trouble Believing Monthy Employment NumbersWe continue to have little faith in the monthly employment numbers that are released–nothing really new here as it seems [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 5, 2015We Have Added Newtek Business Services Notes to ModelsWe have added shares of baby bond Newtek Business Services 7.5% notes (ticker:NEWTZ) to the 2014/2015 Short/Medium Duration Income Portfolio [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 4, 2015Not a Bad September For Us, But More Tough Times AheadSeptember was a month of much consternation in the financial markets, but compared to July and August the actual movement [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles Posted October 2, 2015Utility Southern Company Issues Baby BondsGiant utility company, Southern Company, has sold a big baby bond issue–35,000,000 shares. The issue is investment grade as one [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPage, Featured Articles Posted October 2, 2015Southern Company Series 2015A 6.25% Junior Subordinated Notes Due October 15, 2075Date Issued 10/01/2015 Shares Issued 35,000,000 Overallotment Shares 5,000,000 S&P Rating BBB Moodys Rating [...]Read More