Seeking Alpha: How Preferred ETFs Can Juice Your Income Portfolio
04/09/13: Touting the benefits of preferred stock ETFs, Seeking Alpha underscores PFXF. "This new and unique offering from Van Eck Global seeks to differentiate itself by getting away from the traditional financial sector dominance of other preferred ETFs."
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Barron's: Yield's Final Frontier
03/09/13: "After high-yield bonds, real-estate investment trusts, and leveraged loans comes yield's final frontier: the roughly $24 billion niche of business-development companies [BDCs]," reports Brendan Conway. "Van Eck Global last month launched the first BDC-only ETF, the Market Vectors BDC Income ETF (BIZD). Though it tracks 25 companies, 50% of assets are invested in five BDCs. One reason: You can count the number of companies with a $1 billion market capitalization on two hands."
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WSJ: Advisers Find Income Alternatives in Mortgage REITs
03/06/13: WSJ Reporter Murray Coleman highlights MORT in his recent article on mortgage REITs: But for most mainstream investors, mortgage REITs likely represent "a roundabout way" to lower portfolio correlations and generate higher income. He quotes product manager, Brandon R.: “we stress that MORT is designed to leverage the differences between short-term financing rates and longer-term MBS [mortgage-backed securities] yields.”
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ETF Database: All About The New BDC Income ETF (BIZD)
02/26/13: “The new Market Vectors BDC Income ETF (BIZD) gives investors access to a diversified pool of business development companies in the U.S., and indirectly to the typically small high-yielding companies they invest in,” writes Cory Mitchell. “Ultimately, BIZD is attractive if you are an investor looking for high yield—expected to be around 7.60% – and are willing to accept higher risk to get it.”
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Zacks: A Closer Look at BIZD
02/14/13: "In investors’ never-ending quest for high yield securities, many have taken a closer look at BDCs for exposure," claims Zacks’ Eric Dutram. He discusses the limited access that individual investors have to BDCs, but highlights the recent launch of BIZD. "This ETF seems appropriate for those seeking a high income play in the relatively uncorrelated BDC ETF market. These BDCs often loan capital to firms that are very small or are otherwise uninvestable in other ways, making them an interesting way to tap into this overlooked market segment."
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