John Hancock Preferred Income Fund

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund operates as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. It seeks to provide a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital by investing its assets in preferred stocks or other preferred securities, including convertible preferred securities. The company was founded on August 27, 2002 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Investors have been struggling to generate any sort of income off of their portfolio for many years now. HPI invests in a portfolio of preferred stocks to generate a reasonably high yield.

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Only funds with yields over 6.50%, coverage higher than 80% and trading at under a +5% premium are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given.

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HPI is one fund that investors can use to overcome the problem of generating income in today's environment. The fund is heavily focused on the utility and financial sectors, which makes sense for a preferred stock fund.

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Only funds with yield over 7.5%, coverage higher than 90% and trading at a discount are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. The top DxYxZ funds are DSL, HPI, and HPF.

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For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that cover a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. The market downturn last year exposed the risk of high volatility and deep drawdowns with investing in closed-end funds. Obviously, they are not suited for everyone.

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The Federal Reserve has made it incredibly difficult to earn income off of your savings with its current low-interest rate policy.

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You can fund your retirement in many ways. Low rates are like an annoying roommate, they aren't going away.

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Cohen & Steers Ltd. Duration Preferred & Income Fund, Inc.

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We take a look at year-to-date returns of the sector CEFs as well as the key drivers behind those returns. There are no easy answers in allocating to the sector as funds with the most robust structural features and no hedge NAV drags are also trading at elevated premiums.

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John Hancock preferred CEFs have seen slight discount widening recently. Deleveraging and overweight to energy detracted from performance during the COVID crash.

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Preferred securities can carry features of both equities and fixed-income, while providing a fixed dividend payment. They are traditionally more stable than equities, due to the features that make them a fixed-income investment.

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Steadily lower yields and heightened volatility make relative value opportunities an attractive alpha generation strategy in CEFs.

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Energy holdings have been negatively impacted by the pandemic.

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There are tons of fund sponsors out there with closed-end fund offerings, this list aims to start narrowing down where to look.

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MFS Charter Income Trust

Invesco Global Water ETF

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Funds are selected based on Risk, Risk Adjusted Returns, Momentum, Income, and Quality Factors.

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