FFWM vs MYD Comparison

First Foundation Inc is a financial services company. It is engaged in providing investment management and financial planning services for high-net-worth individuals, retirement plans, charitable institutions, and private foundations. The company focuses on segments namely Banking and Wealth Management. It also offers loans to individuals and entities that own and operate multifamily residential and commercial real estate properties as well as business banking products and services to small to moderate-sized businesses, professional firms, and consumer banking products and services to individuals.

Blackrock Muniyield Fund Inc is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide shareholders with as high a level of current income exempt from U.S. federal income taxes. The fund invests a majority of its assets in municipal bonds exempt from U.S. federal income taxes (except that the interest may be subject to the U.S. federal alternative minimum tax). These bonds are predominantly long-term (with a maturity of more than ten years at the time of investment), and rated as investment grade, or deemed to be of comparable quality by the investment adviser at the time of investment. The fund can also invest directly in such securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives.