Indexology®: U.S. Preferred Stock: Equity & Bond Characteristics Helping or Hurting Performance?
March 30, 2015 at 06:00 AM EDT
In this prolonged low interest rate environment, the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index has performed well, returning 2.92% year-to-date. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (TR) is up a modest 0.6% and long term bonds tracked in the S&P/BGCantor 20+ Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index are up 4.53% in total...