I will be adding a new link titled “Sandbox” in the right hand menu.
That link will get you to this page.
I had originally set up the “Reader Initiated Alert” page for ‘alerts’. I was thinking this, for instance, might be when a preferred stock is undergoing a temporary selloff and someone wants to let the population know about it quickly. Of course we all (including me) use the ‘alert’ page for general messaging.
I am requesting that we start using the Sandbox page for all general talk, and try to preserve the ‘alerts’ page for ‘alerts’.
I have had a screen up on one of my monitors all week where I see all comments – no matter where they are posted–it is a great page and I wish everyone had a page like that–believe me we all benefit from all the knowledge being shared. I don’t want to stifle any of the exchange of knowledge, but hope to get things a bit better organized by adding the Sandbox page.
I have recently retired and rolled my 401k into an IRA and am 1/3 of the way in completing the fixed income portion of my portfolio. I would appreciate second opinions on my assumptions of relative risks of various classes of baby bonds and term preferreds. I am assuming the greatest safety is in baby bonds of CEFs and BDCs. Followed in order by baby bonds of mREITs > term preferreds of CLO CEFs > preferreds of mREITs> preferreds of REITs . Where does the relative risk of ladders of corporate IG bonds (eg, IBDS, IBDT, etc) and ladders of corporate high yield (eg, IBHF, IBHG, etc) fall? Thank you in advance
LG, long time contributor who we haven’t heard from in a while, Gridbird went with utility preferred and was an expert at reading the reports. You might find it hard to snag any right now because few are willing to sell and if your account is at Fidelity they restrict the amount you can buy on volume.