MLP

With the debut of the Yorkville High Income MLP ETF (NYSE: YMLP) on Tuesday, the universe of ETFs offering exposure to master limited partnerships is now up to two constituents. The Yorkville High Income MLP ETF marks the debut of the eighth MLP exchange-traded product, but as ETFdb notes, only two...

By: Elliott Gue, Investing Daily In my latest revision of The Energy Strategist’s Best Buys list I noticed that one of my low-risk picks was now yielding 8%. I thought a yield that high in such a quality stock was too good an opportunity to keep mum. So, here’s the play:...

Investors sometimes talk about going defensive only to protect themselves from sharp downside movements. All too often they associate defensive stocks with hedging tools that provide little upside potential. What if you could pick a defensive investment risk management strategy that also provided...

Wunderlich Securities recommended buying any dipping shares in master limited partnership (MLP) groups, after President Barack Obama's tax reform panel submitted their recommendations. Among the options listed in the report were ones eliminating tax exemptions for MLP groups, but Wunderlich cites a...

Wunderlich reports: "Twelve master limited partnerships (MLPs) have reported distributions earned in calendar 2Q10 and payable in 3Q10, representing 33% of total MLP market cap. We estimate ~6.8% market-capitalization weighted year-over-year growth and 1.6% sequential growth so far this quarter....

As investors are firing up their grills for the Fourth of July festivities, they might want to use some of that propane to power their portfolios. Often overlooked as a fuel source, 4 percent of American homes count propane as their main energy resource and 80 percent of farms use the fuel to power...

With investors clamoring for yield in a very low interest rate environment high quality dividend payers (which largely lagged the general market for most of the year) have begun to outperform recently. High dividend telecoms, including AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are up close to 7%...

Early in the summer JP Morgan launched an exchange traded note which tracks the master limited partnership index. The ETN is called the JP Morgan/Alerian MLP ETN (NYSE: AMJ). Master limited partnerships have been around a while, but always were a rather neglected area of the market. They are...