ARDC News and Press, Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Inc. From 07/21/21

Since last November’s vaccine news, financial markets have been "hanging ten" on a swell of cyclical, value and small-cap stocks, and rising Treasury yields. Crosswinds started to grow in the second quarter, however, as economic and inflation data ran hot: rising yields stalled...

We’ve moved past the early-cycle environment that predominated risk taking in 2020, post the pandemic lows, and we’re moving really into a mid-cycle environment, which tends to be constructive for risk. This mid-cycle environment is still going to be expansionary, albeit...

The US high yield market has seen a strong comeback since its panic-driven downturn at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as today’s economic recovery gathers steam, a new fear has seized investors: rising bond yields. Bonds are sensitive to interest-rate movements, and in...

Growth-oriented asset classes are likely to shine, but not equally. Above-trend growth is a supportive environment of risky assets like equities or credit. On valuation grounds, equities are looking a little cheaper. Geraldine Sundstrom and Erin Browne discuss PIMCO’s views...

Longer-term bond yields have fallen recently, seeming to indicate that investors believe that economic growth is not that strong and that inflation will not be a major factor. This attitude shows up in the flattening of the Treasury yield curve, which now projects that future short-te...

Within the non-investment grade credit markets, issuer default rates are an important driver of market and portfolio performance. We believe 2020 ended the credit cycle that began following the global financial crisis, with 2021 marking the start of a new cycle. The duration of th...

Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ARDC) (the “Fund”) announced today that it completed an initial $20 million closing in the first of two closings for a total of $100 million in privately placed mandatory redeemable preferred stock (“MRPS”). Th...

In counter-cyclical investing, we want to buy CEFs when discounts are wide and sell them when discounts are tight. The problem we run into is that when we swap, we give up the upside of the NAVs should the bull market continue. We also give up higher income streams. The options be...

After unprecedented activity in corporate debt borrowing last year, corporations could be on the verge of a capital spending boom for the rest of the year and beyond, Janus Henderson figures in its annual Corporate Debt Index.Companies, which hardly issued any new debt 2021 to ...

HFRO is proposing to convert from a closed-end fund structure to a diversified holding company. HFRO's opaque and illiquid portfolio has significantly underperformed since inception. I recommend shareholders vote "no" unless more significant concessions are made. For further...