iShares Preferred ETF offers a blend of stock/bond benefits, providing steady, tax-efficient income. It holds 451 securities, mainly from financial and industrial sectors, ensuring diversification.

Investors who are interested in collecting equity income naturally gravitate toward dividend stocks: Companies that pay cash on a regular basis to anyone holding their common stock. However, in many ...

One of the investment world's least-ballyhooed corners also happens to be one of its most useful, at least to income investors. I'm talking about preferred stocks—and like with many other types of ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

With the Federal Reserve resuming its interest-rate cuts in recent months, the days of getting upwards of 5% yield in money-market funds and high-yield savings accounts in 2023 and 2024 are a distant ...

Several new preferred stock and exchange traded debt offerings launched, with yields between 6.35% and 9.5%, reflecting diverse risk-return profiles. Top-tier preferreds (Compliance Score 10/10) ...