The September, 2016, 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 appendix reporting on DeemedRetractibles is included. The appendix dealing with FixedResets was not prepared for September, but will be published next month. In the future, these two appendices will alternate; purchasers of a single issue may obtain a copy of the ‘other’ appendix from me on request.
Note that due to problems in August, the August edition is included with the September edition. Clients will not be charged for the August issue.
As previously reported, I now have a new server. Unfortunately, this means that I also have a new IP address for the server and this has caused a recurrence of the bouncing eMail problem reported last February. Twenty-two clients had their eMails bounced and I have sent their copies via wetransfer.com. Most of these clients have eMails hosted at Hotmail.com, outlook.com and live.com; there were a few other addresses also bounced, mainly from financial institutions. So I have to go through the rigamarole of registering the new IP address with the central authority; this process is currently underway.
PrefLetter may now be purchased by all Canadian residents.
Until further notice, the “Previous Edition” will refer to the September, 2016, issue, while the “Next Edition” will be the October, 2016, issue, scheduled to be prepared as of the close October 14 and eMailed to subscribers prior to market-opening on October 17.
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.
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.
However, Assiduous Reader Adrian informs me in the comments to the January 2015 release:
Some nitpicking for DG:
FileApp costs $1.19 in the Apple Store.
But Adrian2 now advises:
Well, as of now, FileApp is free (again?).
So cross your fingers!
Groundhog Day, eh? 🙂
*sigh*
Fixed it!