The March, 2014, edition of PrefLetter has been released and is now available for purchase as the “Previous edition”. Those who subscribe for a full year receive the “Previous edition” as a bonus.
The regular appendices reporting on DeemedRetractibles and FixedResets are included.
PrefLetter may now be purchased by all Canadian residents.
Until further notice, the “Previous Edition” will refer to the March, 2014, issue, while the “Next Edition” will be the April, 2014, issue, scheduled to be prepared as of the close April 11 and eMailed to subscribers prior to market-opening on April 14.
PrefLetter is intended for long term investors seeking issues to buy-and-hold. At least one recommendation from each of the major preferred share sectors is included and discussed.
It appears that the server problems that have bedevilled the site recently have been solved … well, perhaps, not so much ‘solved’ as ‘worked around’. If you deserve a link but did not get a link, please let me know.
Note: My verbosity has grown by such leaps and bounds that it is no longer possible to deliver PrefLetter as an eMail attachment – it’s just too big for my software! Instead, I have sent passwords – click on the link in your eMail and your copy will download.
Note: The PrefLetter website has a Subscriber Download Feature. If you have not received your copy, try it!
Note: PrefLetter eMails sometimes runs afoul of spam filters. If you have not received your copy within fifteen minutes of a release notice such as this one, please double check your (company’s) spam filtering policy and your spam repository – there are some hints in the post Sympatico Spam Filters out of Control. If it’s not there, contact me and I’ll get you your copy … somehow!
Note: There have been scattered complaints regarding inability to open PrefLetter in Acrobat Reader, despite my practice of including myself on the subscription list and immediately checking the copy received. I have had the occasional difficulty reading US Government documents, which I was able to resolve by downloading and installing the latest version of Adobe Reader. Also, note that so far, all complaints have been from users of Yahoo Mail. Try saving it to disk first, before attempting to open it.
Note: There have been other scattered complaints that double-clicking on the links in the “PrefLetter Download” email results in a message that the password has already been used. I have been able to reproduce this problem in my own eMail software … the problem is double-clicking. What happens is the first click opens the link and the second click finds that the password has already been used and refuses to work properly. So the moral of the story is: Don’t be a dick! Single Click!
Note: Assiduous Reader DG informs me:
In case you have any other Apple users: you need to install a free App from the apple store called “FileApp”. It comes with it’s own tutorial and allows you to download and save a PDF file.
Hi James,
As usual, I read your PrefLetter with great interest, finding it both very informative and useful. However, might it be possible for you to send it out a bit earlier, e.g. by early Sunday everning rather than less than an hour before the market opens? I (like probably many other of your readers) have a “day job” outside of the financial industry and would like to have time to evaluate possible actionable purchases (or sells) the evening before, without stealing too much time from my employer during the day.
Thanks!
Believe me, I would love to get PrefLetter out the door early Sunday evening. I used to make this deadline, but the thing has grown to such an extent that this is no longer possible.
I start working on PrefLetter as soon I have completed the Friday market review for the blog … call it 8pm Friday evening. I’m then going all out until my typesetter returns to me the approved final version, whenever that may be.
There is a reason I call PrefLetter weekend my monthly weekend from hell.