AINV News and Press, Apollo Investment Corporation From 04/26/20

As mentioned earlier this month in " Picking Winners And Losers In The 18% Yielding BDC Sector ," Business Development Companies continue to trade at depressed values for many reasons including being considered small cap, financial sector, and high yield, all of which have been subject to ...

Unfortunately, one of my favorite ideas going into the year turned out to be a dud as the COVID pandemic came like a storm. These are business development companies which are found under the VanEck Vectors BDC Income ETF (BIZD). These companies are usually levered 2-3X and lend at high yield...

As mentioned last week in "Picking Winners And Losers In The 18% Yielding BDC Sector," Business Development Companies ("BDCs") continue to trade at depressed values for many reasons including being considered small cap, financial sector, and high yield, all of which have been subject to indi...

Current BDC Yields of 17% (Before Likely Cuts) Business Development Companies ("BDCs") continue to trade at depressed values for many reasons including being considered small/micro-cap, financial sector, and high-yield all of which have been subject to indiscriminate selling (including m...

Roth IRA Conversions This is the ideal time to convert traditional individual retirement accounts holding Business Development Companies ("BDCs") into Roth IRAs due to: Beaten down stock prices Currently lower tax rates Reduced income/tax brackets Reducing taxes for beneficiar...

Foreword A reader of August's high-yield, low priced dividend dog list said this is "dangerous advice". Hence, it is to be used at your own risk. I have always advised that high dividends are a sure sign of high risk. Combine that signal with a low-price offer and you have the stuff of l...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is providing business development companies additional flexibility, on a temporary basis, to issue and sell senior securities in order to provide capital to small and medium-sized businesses, including those with operations affected by COVID...

March 2020 is surely a month to remember, not just for a week, a month or a year but forever. Markets were tanking and flying on almost a daily basis as sickening news about the spreading disease and rising number of deaths in Europe and the U.S. were partially offset by hopeful statements fro...

Focus of Article: The focus of this two-part article is a very detailed analysis comparing Ares Capital Corp. (ARCC) to some of the company's business development company ("BDC") peers (all sector peers I currently cover). I am writing this two-part article due to the continued requests that...

BDC Stock Price Declines Business Development Companies ("BDCs") got hammered this month along with other higher-yield credit-related investments for many of the reasons discussed below. It is important for investors to understand that BDCs are mostly retail-owned and many of the investo...