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Preferred Securities
Strategy highlights
- Attractive income potential: Can provide opportunity for more income, a portion of which may be tax advantaged, by offering access to preferred securities
- Focus on higher-quality investments: Primarily investment grade preferred securities with a focus on highly regulated industries, such as banks, utilities and insurance companies
- Risk and reward balance: A research-driven approach that seeks to help optimize value and minimize risk in order to enhance yields and long-term performance
Strategy description
Preferred Securities seeks to generate current income and total return by investing in exchange-traded $25 par preferred securities.
Investment process
Nuveen seeks to optimize value primarily through a top-down, quantitative driven process focusing on relative value between industry sectors, while also incorporating bottom-up fundamental credit research analysis. We focus on stable and improving credits that offer a potential for attractive income and total return.
At-a-glance
Benchmark
Portfolio composition
• Typically 70-100 securities
Duration
Quality
Account minimum
Literature and resources
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A separately managed account (SMA) is a private portfolio of actively managed, individual securities that may be customized to achieve an individual investor's unique objectives.
SMA accounts typically require a minimum investment of $100,000 for equity and asset allocation strategies and $50,000 for fixed income strategies, although the specific minimum account size varies by program and may be subject to change. The manager may waive these minimums based on client type, asset class, pre-existing relationship with client and other factors. For certain accounts, a negotiated minimum annual fee applies. Please consult with your Nuveen Advisor Consultant for applicable minimums.
Important information on risk
All investments carry a certain degree of risk, including possible loss of principal, and there is no assurance that an investment will provide positive performance over any period of time. The preferred securities strategy entails certain risks, including preferred security risk, interest rate risk, income risk, credit risk, non-US securities risk and concentration/non-diversification risk, among others. There are specific risks associated with investing in preferred securities, including generally an absence of voting rights with respect to the issuing company unless certain events occur. The issuer of preferred securities may redeem the securities prior to a specified date. As with all call provisions, a redemption by the issuer may negatively impact the return of the security held by an account. Investing internationally presents certain risks not associated with investing solely in the U.S., such as currency fluctuation, political and economic change, social unrest, changes in government relations, differences in accounting and the lesser degree of accurate public information available, foreign company risk, market risk and correlation risk. Preferred security investments are generally invested in a high percentage of the securities of companies principally engaged in the financial services sector, which makes these investments more susceptible to adverse economic or regulatory occurrences affecting that sector.
Check with your financial professional for specific product availability and performance information. This information may change without notice. From time to time, we may close or reopen strategies.
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