RE:Explanation please....I'm wondering the same thing. What the hell is pushing the price down? If there were some kind of negative event, you'd think the sell-off would have happened just after ex-dividend on Sept. 27th, not 8 days later on the Oct. 5th., since you get the dividend as a shareholder of record on ex-dividend date, and don't need to hold it up until the payment date. My only thought is that maybe, due to the comparatively low volumes, it's a short attack? After all, with rising interest rates, all the holdings in the FTN fund, namely schedule I banks and other quality financials, should stand to make more money, not less.