FFIC vs HPS Comparison

Flushing Financial Corp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged in attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits together with funds generated from ongoing operations and borrowings, mainly in originations and purchases of multi-family residential properties loans, commercial business loans, commercial real estate mortgage loans and, to a lesser extent, one-to-four family loans (focusing on mixed-use properties, which are properties that contain both residential dwelling units and commercial units). It also operates an internet branch, under the brands of iGObanking.com and BankPurely. The company operates as a single unit, a community bank.

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital. The fund's secondary investment objective is to provide growth of capital to the extent consistent with its primary investment objective. It seeks to achieve the objectives by investing a majority of its assets in preferred stocks and other preferred securities, including convertible preferred securities. The portfolio composition of the company consists of the U.S. preferred securities, foreign preferred securities, common stocks, corporate bonds, and the short-term investments.