Chasing the Yield

Investing for income through dividends and distributions

  • Advisory committee to the CDC expected to update recommendation on Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine

    Advisory committee to the CDC expected to update recommendation on Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine

    The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is hearing updates from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials on reports of J&J vaccine recipients experiencing blood clots combined with low blood-platelet levels. The committee is expected to vote Thursday afternoon on whether to update its recommendation on use of the J&J vaccine, according to an agenda…

  • Fed signals interest rate hikes in 2022

    Fed signals interest rate hikes in 2022

    Most Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday they were prepared to raise their short-term benchmark rate at least three times next year to cool high inflation. As expected, officials also approved plans to more quickly scale back the Fed’s pandemic stimulus efforts in response to hotter inflation, opening the door to rate increases starting next spring. Fed officials voted to hold…

  • Systemic Inflation

    Systemic Inflation

    COVID-19 policies creating systemic inflation, 100 year old trucking company folds, tax loss harvesting, and much more!

  • Benefits of tax loss harvesting

    Benefits of tax loss harvesting

    The Wall Street Journal took a look at tax loss harvesting to mitigate taxes and increase returns. Our first interesting finding is that conservatively, investors can juice their returns 1.10 percentage points a year on average,assuming a 25% tax rate. If investors are pushing it in terms of taking advantage of every tax-loss harvesting opportunity,…

  • Sold Hoegh LNG Partners LP (HMLP) and Bought Office Properties Income Trust (OPI)

    Sold Hoegh LNG Partners LP (HMLP) and Bought Office Properties Income Trust (OPI)

    I finally decided to cut my losses with Hoegh LNG Partners LP (HMLP). This purchase was one of my biggest errors since starting down the path of dividend investing. They were a risky play with a high dividend and it went well for about half a year until they cut their dividend by 98%. When…

  • Höegh LNG Partners LP (HMLP) received unsolicited buyout offer from Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd.

    Höegh LNG Partners LP (HMLP) received unsolicited buyout offer from Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd.

    Höegh LNG Partners LP (NYSE: HMLP) (the “Partnership”) announced today that the Board of Directors of the Partnership (the “HMLP Board”) received an unsolicited non-binding proposal, dated December 3, 2021, from Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. (“Höegh LNG”) pursuant to which Höegh LNG would acquire through a wholly owned subsidiary all publicly held common units of the…