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 Date Issued  01/12/2016Shares Issued  11,000,000      Overallotment Shares   1,000,000S&P Rating   BBB+   Moodys Rating   A3Security Ticker Symbol   PSA-B    OTC Temporary Ticker   PBSTPMarket Traded ON   NYSEDividend Payment Paid on the last day of March, June, September and December beginning on 03/31/2016Quarterly Dividend   .3375   Annual Dividend   1.35Securities may be redeemed, at the issuers option, as early as…

It is time to take a look back at 2015 and see how we performed in our model portfolios. Dividend Yield Hunter had two model portfolios active during the entirety of 2015 and one additional portfolio that was conceived and launched in August of 2015. A recap of these model portfolios and how they performed seems warranted. When 2015 began, I wrote…

News headlines basically scream "Worst Stock Market Start in History," referring to the first days of trading in 2016.Undoubtably, the first half of January 2016 has been tough for many investors as common stocks slid. Fortunately for many income investors, this huge common stock downdraft has left many, if not most, preferred stocks and baby bonds relatively unscathed.Seasoned income investors…

We follow all ocean shipping companies so when we got a note on the preferreds shares of Tsakos Energy Navigation (NYSE:TNP) from our reader Alan we decided to take a fresh look at the shares.  It should be clear that we have no interest whatsoever in the common shares, but there are 3 issues of perpetual preferreds outstanding that may…

We are starting off the new year with a batch of buys and sells in the 2015/2016 Blended Income Model Portfolio. We have determined it will be most helpful to simply carry all of the models forward for the new year instead of liquidating and starting fresh.  To be able to do this we need to make some portfolio changes that more accurately…