{"id":4314,"date":"2024-10-07T01:12:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T01:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartspending.ai\/fed-rate-cuts-should-favor-preferred-stocks-virtus-fund-manager-says\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T20:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T20:57:53","slug":"fed-rate-cuts-should-favor-preferred-stocks-virtus-fund-manager-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=4314","title":{"rendered":"Fed rate cuts should favor preferred stocks, Virtus fund manager says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"SpecialReportArticle-ArticleBody-6\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"SpecialReportArticle-articleBody-6-2\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108041088\">\n<div id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108041088\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000353249\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One financial firm is trying to capitalize on preferred stocks \u2013 which carry more risks than bonds, but aren&#8217;t as risky as common stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure Capital Advisors Founder and CEO Jay Hatfield manages the <span id=\"SpecialReportArticle-QuoteInBody-1\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\">Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA)<\/span>. He leads the company&#8217;s investing and business development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High yield bonds and preferred stocks\u2026 tend to do better than other fixed income categories when the stock market is strong, and when we&#8217;re coming out of a tightening cycle like we are now,&#8221; he told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;ETF Edge&#8221; this week.<\/p>\n<p>Hatfield&#8217;s ETF is up 10% in 2024 and almost 23% over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>His ETF&#8217;s three top holdings are <span id=\"SpecialReportArticle-QuoteInBody-4\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\">Regions Financial<\/span>, <span id=\"SpecialReportArticle-QuoteInBody-5\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\">SLM Corporation<\/span>, and <span id=\"SpecialReportArticle-QuoteInBody-6\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\">Energy Transfer LP<\/span> as of Sept. 30, according to FactSet. All three stocks are up about 18% or more this year.<\/p>\n<p>Hatfield&#8217;s team selects names that it deems are mispriced relative to their risk and yield, he said. &#8220;Most of the top holdings are in what we call asset intensive businesses,&#8221; Hatfield said.<\/p>\n<p>Since its May 2018 inception, the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF is down almost 9%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/05\/fed-rate-cuts-should-favor-preferred-stocks-virtus-fund-manager-says-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One financial firm is trying to capitalize on preferred stocks \u2013 which carry more risks than bonds, but aren&#8217;t as risky as common stocks. Infrastructure Capital Advisors Founder and CEO Jay Hatfield manages the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the company&#8217;s investing and business development. &#8220;High yield bonds and preferred stocks\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[139,140,137,143,144,141,138,108,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-4314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finance-news","8":"tag-cuts","9":"tag-favor","10":"tag-fed","11":"tag-fund","12":"tag-manager","13":"tag-preferred","14":"tag-rate","15":"tag-stocks","16":"tag-virtus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}