saluki65

The Week in Credit: Weekly Credit Market Summary

I don't understand what he is saying. Should speak in plain english and skip the jargon and trying to be flashy

Master Limited Partnerships: An Island of Stability for Dividend Investors

They have been a great income investment for me throughout the last fews years.

Nervous About MLPs

Most invesotrsare nervous but there isno explanation as to why. Disappointing you would publish this. I would have been better off bottom line if I had put more into MLP's the last few years.

Top 10 Energy Stocks and an Overlooked Power Fund

First know that I own 5,500 IPS' of Atlantic Power for a number of years. I am underwater on these 'shares' and have tended to buy kore when it has been down. I have consistenly reviewed their financials and listened to their con calls. Am disturbed that their Q4 results won't be announced until theend of March.

The logical part of my brain says this is an outstanding opportunity. The emotional side asks myself "What don't I know or what am I missing?". Unless they are lying to us this appears as one of the most undervalued securities in the open market.

ATP does have the right to redeem the bond portion in the 4th quarter of this year. I look at this security as more of a bond equvelant with a call provision which does not bother me. If the bond portion is redeemed at about US$6.00 this implies a high yielding common stock that it seriously undervalued. I still wonder what am I missing?


On Feb 15 11:57 AM Bob Lunn wrote:

> Thank you very much for the highly useful information!

Nationalizing Fannie and Freddie: Latest Move in the Housing Crisis

As a holder of $25k of Fannie Mae preferred I just got screwed. It was brought about by the local realtors, banks, mortgage brokers and the Wall Street 'financial engineers' who created the investment vehicles. Mortgages were given blindly without credit approvals, and standards. As a former credit mgr. for a Fortune 100 company I can assure I would have been fired for approving any such poor risk.

You can bet the amongst listed participants will never have to give their commisions and bonuses back for what they created. I can also assure you that my generations of investors will never investment in a GSE or Federal security as long as we live.

Why Dividend Investors View Stocks Differently

As an income investor this is how we view this type investment. The author misses the point though that many of my generation are retiring from companies who have eliminated their pensions and, in fact, we need this income to for living expenses. There will be many more of this "pensionless" invesotr in the next ten years.

Seven High-Yielding ETFs

Good idea, after going trough some gut wrenching twists and turns. As an income investor I have started doing this same thing and have added already some of the mentioned stocks and will be moving more money toward this type. Heck, even my investment grade preferreds have been extremely volatile.

Atlantic Power Stock Up on Buyback Plans

People are either trying to short this stock or don't understand it. This has solid fundamentals