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More on PGF - December 22, 2006

A comment was left on the blog by Josh Betts, an employee of Powershares, regarding my views on PGF, which I thought was worth repeating here and addressing:An important factor that needs to be considered when evaluating securities istheir tax consequences. Roughly of fund investments reside in a qualifiedaccount, however, this still leaves the other vulnerable to inefficient taxmanaged funds. It should be noted that when comparing the yields of closed-endfunds to the PowerShares Financial...
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More on the PGF-CEFs comparison - December 6, 2006

Reader JonD correctly pointed out, on seeking alpha, that I had ignored the aspect of leverage when I compared PGF's yield, which is not leveraged, to that of a CEF which is leveraged to right about a third of its asset base.While I accept this criticism as a matter of principle - it is unfair to compare leveraged and unleveraged funds, the latter fighting with one proverbial hand tied behind their backs - I don't think this is a huge factor in this case. The recent Bill Gross comment shows...
http://whereistheyield.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-on-pgf-cefs-comparison.html

PowerShares Financial Preferred Portfolio (PGF) - December 5, 2006

PowerShares Financial Preferred Portfolio (PGF) is a new ETF that happily addresses the need to capture Preferred Shares in ETF format. Unfortunately, It doesn't do it as well as it could, as we will see in this detailed analysis of the fund.Using the information available on their website (particularly the full roster of holdings), I fetched for each holding its annual coupon rate, credit rating (both figures accessible through the excellent, and free QuantomOnline.com) and last closing price..
http://whereistheyield.blogspot.com/2006/12/powershares-financial-preferred.html

Bill Gross Foresees Poor Returns - December 3, 2006

The famous journalism school truism favors the headline "Man Bites Dog" to "Dog Bites Man", on the grounds that the latter is rather more common and therefore mundane, which of course it is. In that sense, the title of this post is weak. "Bill Gross Foresees Wonderful Returns" would be much more powerful; But he never does.I've posted about a previous investment outlook newsletter of his, and his latest is about as grim. But grim as he may be, his writing is seldom dull and never useless. In...
http://whereistheyield.blogspot.com/2006/12/bill-gross-foresees-poor-returns.html
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