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Date Issued   7/27/2017 Shares Issued   7,000,000  Overallotment Shares  600,000 S&P Rating   BB+   Moodys Rating   NR Security Ticker Symbol   VLY-B  OTC Temp Ticker  VLYYP Market Traded On   NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the 30th of  March, June, September and December beginning on 9/30/2017 Quarterly Dividend   .344   Annual Dividend   1.375 Beginning 9/30/2022 the coupon will float at the rate of 3 month…

Date Issued   7/24/2017 Shares Issued   28,000,000  Overallotment Shares  4,200,000 S&P Rating   NR   Moodys Rating   NR Security Ticker Symbol   NLY-F  OTC Temp Ticker – ANNPP Market Traded On   NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the last day March, June, September and December beginning on 12/31/2017 Quarterly Dividend   .434   Annual Dividend   1.738 Beginning 9/30/2022 the coupon will float at the rate of 3 month…

Two companies operating in the oil and gas pipelines industry have been hiking dividends for several years and currently reward their investors with dividend yields of 3.7% and 7.3%. Over the past few years, both companies boosted their dividend payouts every quarter. In addition to the rising quarterly dividends, share price rose over the past year as well. Additionally, 50-day…

July 26, 2017 By Tim McPartland UMH Properties (NYSE:UMH), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns manufactured home communities, has sold an offering of five million preferred shares. The issue is cumulative, optionally redeemable by the issuer approximately five years after its official offering and carries a coupon of 6.75%. As a REIT, UMH does not pay qualified dividends,…

By Tim McPartland Since we began writing on our original “Yield Hunter” website in 2006, we have searched for the Holy Grail for conservative income investors. The Holy Grail to us was the portfolio that we did not feel we had to watch over constantly, that we did not have to trade, that maintained a fairly low volatility and yet…