.One financial agency is actually attempting to maximize participating preferred stocks u00e2 $" which bring more threats than connects, however may not be as high-risk as typical stocks.Infrastructure Resources Advisors Owner as well as CEO Jay Hatfield deals with the Virtus InfraCap United State Participating Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the business's trading as well as service progression." Higher return connects as well as preferred stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 often tend to do far better than various other set income classifications when the stock exchange is actually strong, as well as when we're coming out of a securing cycle like our company are currently," he told CNBC's "ETF Advantage" this week.Hatfield's ETF is actually up 10% in 2024 and also virtually 23% over the past year.His ETF's three top holdings are actually Regions Financial, SLM Enterprise, and also Power Transfer LP since Sept. 30, according to FactSet. All three inventories are up about 18% or even much more this year.Hatfield's crew selects titles that it considers are actually mispriced relative to their risk and return, he stated. "A lot of the top holdings are in what our company contact property intensive organizations," Hatfield said.Since its Might 2018 creation, the Virtus InfraCap United State Participating Preferred Stock ETF is down nearly 9%.