0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted January 6, 2017Fixed Income Investors Drive Interest Rates LowerFixed income investors are thumbing their noses at the idea that interest rates are going to move higher because of [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 31, 20162016, A Good YearInvestors have all kinds of goals for their portfolios, some realistic, some not, which is why we strive to define [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 29, 2016Added Saratoga Investment Notes to PortfoliosWe have added the new Saratoga Investment Corp 6.75% notes (NYSE:SAB) to the Blended Income Portfolio and to the Moderate [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 22, 2016Business Development Company Saratoga Investment Corp. Sells a New Baby BondSaratoga Investment (NYSE:SAR), a smaller sized BDC, with assets under management of just $272 million, has sold a new baby [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 20, 2016We Make Portfolio ChangesWe have been very happy with the Short/Medium Duration Income Portfolio and the Short/Medium Duration with Zip Portfolio this year while [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 15, 2016Interest Rates Tic Higher While Panic is AvertedWell as we expected the announcement of a 1/4% Fed funds rate increase turned out to be mostly a non [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 12, 2016Miracles Happen – First BanCorp Restarts Preferred DividendsIn what we term a “miracle” First BanCorp (NYSE:FBP) of Puerto Rico has restarted the monthly dividends on their monthly [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 12, 2016Staring at a Rate IncreaseSo here we are just 46 hours before the Fed likely announces a fed funds rate hike of 1/4%. We [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted December 7, 2016Bank Holding Company KeyCorp Sells a Fixed-to-Floating Preferred$135 billion asset bank holding company KeyCorp has sold a new fixed-to-floating rate preferred with a still stingy initial coupon [...]Read More
0 0By Tim McPartlandIn DividendYieldPost, Featured Articles, Uncategorized Posted November 30, 2016When You’re Snoozing, You’re Losing IncomeWe have written before that when you are not invested you are cutting your income stream. When we write these [...]Read More