What Happened in October: 3 Challenges for Dropdown MLPs and 3 Ways Their Parent Companies are Helping
Dropdown names once handily outperformed other MLPs. Now, following a year of underperformance, their parent companies are stepping in to help boost valuations.
The Brave New World of MLP Financing
Kinder Morgan (KMI) has been making headlines for the past few weeks. First, cryptically holding up their investment grade rating as a sacred cow, then putting their money where their mouth is by...
What Happens When the Going Gets Tough?
It’s no secret that things are rough out there. MLPs and millennials have a lot in common these days: running to the bank of Mom & Dad, moving home, or just grinding it out.
MPLX/MWE Merger Vote Post-Mortem: The 20% That Won’t Be Giving Thanks This Holiday Season
Thanksgiving is a dramatic family holiday. In Rockwell’s America, we sit down with our loving families and the family patriarch carves a turkey. There is as much pie as we can eat, conversations are...
Activist Investors: Creating, Not Managing, MLPs
Activist investors may be prevented from directly influencing MLPs, but here’s how broader energy activists are creating more MLPs (and whether you should trust them).