cagkansayin Until very recently, our efforts to optimize results from fixed income investments in a changing interest rate environment have focused not only on securing high current yields but also on potential capital appreciation. Fixed-to-floating rate preferred stocks trading at big discounts to par have been the assets of choice. But now that we have reached the Fed's pivot point of turning from raising rates to cutting rates, those discounts have shrunk, and the floating rate yields will likely begin ...