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Date Issued    3/31/2015Shares Issued   4,000,000    Overallotment Shares  600,000S&P Rating   NR   Moodys Rating   NRSecurity Ticker Symbol   BANC-D     OTC Temp Ticker  BLBLP Market Traded ON   NYSEDividend Payment Paid on the 15th of March, June, September and December beginning on 06/15/2015Quarterly Dividend   .461   Annual Dividend   1.84Securities may be redeemed, at the issuers option, as early as 06/15/2020 for…

GasLog LTD (ticker:GLOG) has sold a new preferred offering that began trading on the OTC Grey market today.GasLog is a LNG (Liquified Natual Gas) ship owner and has a decent free cash flow.While we are not a long term buyer of this issue for those looking for a higher yielding issue this one is not too bad.Details of the issue are here.Information…

We have published a new article on Seeking Alpha dealing with just Investment Grade Baby Bonds ($25 exchange traded debt).The article is here (free Seeking Alpha registration required for the full article).This article continues a discussion we started when we wrote an article on reducing volatility by using baby bonds (shorter term duration) at this article here on Seeking Alpha.

Date of Issue  -  3/30/2015Shares Sold  4,000,000   Over-allotment Shares  600,000S&P Rating   NR    Moodys Rating   NRSecurity Ticker Symbol   GLOG-A   OTC Temp Ticker   GKLGFCUSIP  G37585117Market Traded ON   NYSEDividend Payment Paid on the 1st of January, April, July and October beginning on 07/01/2015Quarterly Dividend   .555    Annual Dividend   2.22Securities may be redeemed, at the issuers option, as early as…

We finally have time to outline some actions we plan to take this week.We have decided to harvest profits tomorrow (Tuesday). We are selling 3 issues we hold and all 3 are profitable positions, although only 2 are true 'harvesting' of profits.1st off we are selling the Resource Capital 8.25% cumulative preferred (ticker:RSO-B). This is not a true harvesting of…