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Date Issued  2/2/2017 Shares Issued  4,000,000       Over Allotment   0 S&P Rating   NR        Moody Rating   NR Security Ticker Symbol   JE-A    OTC Grey Market  JENGF Market Traded ON   NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the last day of March, June, September and December beginning on 3/31/2017 Quarterly Dividend   .531   Annual Dividend   2.125 Floating rate starting…

Four equities boosted their dividends 5.4-96.7% to supplement 5%-plus yields. Each of the equities increased its annual dividends during last two years. In addition to the rising dividends and robust yields, the four investments offered their shareholders a bonus of double-digit percentage capital appreciation during the last year. One of the ex-dividend dates is on February 13, 2017 and the…

Investors have four choices among publicly traded equities that announced their first quarterly dividends of the year that rewarded shareholders with payout increases of 2.4%-6.7%. The declared payouts continue a record of relatively steady rising dividends for three out of the four securities. Two of the organizations have increased their dividends annually for more than a decade. One entity increased…

In what we believe to be a 1st for the model portfolios we have added shares of mREIT New Residential Investment Corp (NYSE:NRZ) to 2 of the models.  This decision was made as shares traded sharply lower as the company did a stock offering of 50,000,000 shares.  We should also note that we follow many investing message boards and our awareness…

January has been a reasonably good month for income investors as the 10 year treasury ended the month at the same place it started, 2.45%.  Even though interest rates remained flat the average price of a preferred share or baby bond continued to climb from December prices.  The average share ended the month at $25.68 which is a gain of…