XFLT - From Slide Rules To Spread Sheets: Coping With 'Analytic Overload'

• When I started in the financial business, calculators were few and far between, and pencil and paper were our primary analytical tools. Forget about computers and spreadsheets.
• Now we have a plethora of tools and data. But the basic questions - what is important? and what does it mean? - haven't changed.
• I cut through the "analytic overload" to focus on what is most important to me.
• Here are the factors I look at most carefully in evaluating closed-end funds as candidates for my Inside the Income Factory® portfolios.
• Pretty basic stuff: What are the fund's objectives? Does it meet them? How does it do it? Can we count on it continuing to do so? Price and discount attractive?

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