{"id":40809,"date":"2020-05-05T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=40809"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:11:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:11:34","slug":"five-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-invest-in-preferred-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=40809","title":{"rendered":"Five reasons why it\u2019s so hard to invest in preferred shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Rob Carrick for the shout-out in his recent piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/inside-the-market\/article-five-reasons-why-its-so-hard-to-invest-in-preferred-shares\/\">Five reasons why it\u2019s so hard to invest in preferred shares<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RESEARCH<br \/>\nConsidering the high level of interest in preferred shares, there\u2019s a surprising lack of analyst reports and other commentary. Two websites to try are PrefInfo.com and PrefBlog. The investor relations pages on corporate websites are often of little help in trying to make sense of how various preferred shares work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and there&#8217;s gold down in the comments section &#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/globeComments_200505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/globeComments_200505-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"globecomments_200505\" width=\"400\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40810\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Click for Big<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Rob Carrick for the shout-out in his recent piece Five reasons why it\u2019s so hard to invest in preferred shares: RESEARCH Considering the high level of interest in preferred shares, there\u2019s a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-clippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}