Monthly Archives - October 2017

Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors | Indianapolis | Preferred Stock Performance | Asset Class

Will Higher Interest Rates Huff and Puff Your House Down?

Ever since (think back approximately a year-and-a-half) rates began their slow upward movement, income investors have experienced a certain degree of worry about the “big bad wolf” blowing down their carefully constructed investment “abodes.” Thankfully, as Sheaff Brock senior portfolio manager JR Humphreys, CFA, CAIA explains, if you’ve “built” for the longer term (planning a longer holding period), there may be little reason for concern. In fact, Humphreys pointed out in an October interview with our SheaffBriefs editor, since December [...]

Sheaff Brock | rising interest rates | Dave Gilreath Sheaff Brock | income-bearing investment strategies | REITs | Preferred Stocks

Do Rising Interest Rates Put Investors Behind the Curve? It Ain’t Necessarily So.

Rates are rising. They will likely keep rising; accept that and adjust, is the message astute investors should be receiving. Rates are rising. They will likely keep rising; accept that and adjust, is the message astute investors should be receiving. When we compare the rates on U.S. Treasury bonds now to those of one year ago, Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath observes, at every maturity, rates are higher now by 60 to 95 basis points. Actually, he adds, U.S. 10-year [...]