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Mar 17 2010

Increasing Dividend Yield Part III: Preferred Stock

by streetread
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This is the third installment in a multi-part series that looks at various options used by income investors to boost their yield while waiting for dividend growth to lift their portfolio’s overall yield-on-cost. Last week we looked at REITs. This week we are looking at Preferred Stock.



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