WIA - The Month In Closed-End Funds: July 2021

August, 06 2021 12:10 AM Western Asset Inflation-Linked Income Fund

For the ninth month in a row, equity CEFs on average posted positive returns, rising 0.18% on an NAV basis for July.
While for the fifth month running, fixed-income CEFs posted plus-side returns (+0.60%).
Thirty-four percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, with 32% of equity CEFs and 35% of fixed-income CEFs trading in premium territory.
Real Estate CEFs (+2.27%), for the first month in 10, posted the strongest one-month returns of the equity classifications in the CEF universe for July.
For the third month in four, the Corporate Debt BBB-Rated CEFs (Leveraged) (+1.45%) classification posted the strongest plus-side returns in the domestic taxable fixed-income CEF macro group for July.

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Company Name:	Western Asset Inflation-Linked Income Fund
Stock Symbol:	WIA
Market:	NYSE