.One monetary agency is attempting to maximize preferred stocks u00e2 $" which bring even more threats than connects, however may not be as high-risk as common stocks.Infrastructure Capital Advisors Founder and also CEO Jay Hatfield handles the Virtus InfraCap USA Participating Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the business's committing and service advancement." Higher return connects and also favored stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 usually tend to carry out much better than other fixed revenue groups when the securities market is actually solid, and also when our experts're showing up of a securing cycle like we are now," he said to CNBC's "ETF Upper hand" this week.Hatfield's ETF is up 10% in 2024 and also just about 23% over recent year.His ETF's 3 leading holdings are actually Regions Financial, SLM Company, as well as Electricity Transmission LP since Sept. 30, according to FactSet. All three supplies are actually up around 18% or even a lot more this year.Hatfield's crew selects labels that it considers are actually mispriced about their danger and return, he said. "Most of the best holdings remain in what our experts phone possession intense companies," Hatfield said.Since its May 2018 beginning, the Virtus InfraCap USA Preferred Stock ETF is actually down practically 9%.