.One economic agency is actually attempting to capitalize on preferred stocks u00e2 $" which carry more threats than connects, however aren't as risky as usual stocks.Infrastructure Capital Advisors Founder as well as CEO Jay Hatfield manages the Virtus InfraCap United State Participating Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the business's investing as well as business development." High return connects and also preferred stocksu00e2 $ u00a6 have a tendency to carry out much better than other preset income types when the stock market is solid, and when our team're showing up of a securing cycle like our company are right now," he said to CNBC's "ETF Upper hand" this week.Hatfield's ETF is up 10% in 2024 and almost 23% over the past year.His ETF's 3 best holdings are Regions Financial, SLM Enterprise, and Power Transfer LP since Sept. 30, according to FactSet. All 3 stocks are up about 18% or even extra this year.Hatfield's group picks titles that it deems are actually mispriced about their danger as well as yield, he pointed out. "Many of the top holdings reside in what our company call resource extensive businesses," Hatfield said.Since its own May 2018 beginning, the Virtus InfraCap United State Preferred Stock ETF is actually down virtually 9%.