.One monetary firm is attempting to maximize participating preferred stocks u00e2 $" which carry more dangers than bonds, but may not be as dangerous as popular stocks.Infrastructure Financing Advisors Owner and also CEO Jay Hatfield deals with the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Participating Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the provider's committing as well as service growth." High return connections as well as preferred stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 often tend to do much better than other predetermined revenue categories when the stock exchange is actually powerful, and also when our company are actually coming out of a tightening cycle like our experts are actually now," he told CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.Hatfield's ETF is up 10% in 2024 and practically 23% over recent year.His ETF's 3 top holdings are actually Regions Financial, SLM Organization, and Energy Transactions LP since Sept. 30, depending on to FactSet. All three stocks are actually up around 18% or even more this year.Hatfield's group chooses labels that it considers are actually mispriced about their danger and yield, he stated. "The majority of the leading holdings reside in what we phone asset intense businesses," Hatfield said.Since its May 2018 inception, the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF is actually down almost 9%.