RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Don't sell FFN, buy more.Don't really have a dog in this fight as I have submitted all my holdings of FFN -150k shares - into the retraction and no longer own any FFN prefs. I believe that yes this should result in an increase in the the structural leverage of the fund the degree to which will be a function of the retraction %. For example, a 50% retraction would drop the FFN NAV below the dividend paying threshold. However I don't believe we have a prior example of a Quadravest fund in this exact scenario and we don't know the retraction % for FFN or any of the other Quadravest funds up for retraction. The only thing I am absolutely sure of is that Quadravest will continue to act in it's own self interest.
Splitfunding wrote: Sorry, but could you explain this a little more? Would this result in an increase in the structural leverage of the fund? I ask because 4 years ago FTN underwent a major consolidation which resulted a huge reduction of the structural leverage of the common shares of that fund - the effects of which I experienced first hand since I had nearly 50,000 common shares at the time. Thankfully it didn't result in any major losses for me as I had bought in shortly after the covid lows, but the effects of this change are still being felt today to long term shareholders. But in that case the preferreds were trading under the NAV while the commons were trading just above or at NAV(iirc, it was not paying out). Today the exact opposite scenario holds true for FTN, the fund is very healthy with the preferred shares trading above their NAV value and the commons trading under it, though that discount has just now narrowed considerably.