ARDC News and Press, Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund Inc. From 06/14/22

Many readers have asked me which of our closed-end funds have the most stable distributions? Hard to predict on a fund-by-fund basis, as we've seen funds with distributions that seemed to be hanging by a thread that still haven't cut their payouts. That's why we diversify since li...

Rose’s Income Garden “RIG” portfolio value is up 6.1% YTD, up 2.3% from April, beating the S&P 500 by ~19.4%, which was down 13.3% YTD. May Income beats 2021 by 25.35%; dividend yield remains 4.9% with 19 company payments revealed along with 1 raise. Trans...

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. Top DxYxZ funds are HFRO, EHI, and IVH. For further details see: The Quality Closed-End Fund Report, May 2022

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the fourth week of May and highlight recent market action. The CEF space had a V-shaped bounce this week, recovering most of the previous losses for the month. Reversing their previous underperformance, Munis did well. We take...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the third week of May and highlight recent market action. The CEF space had a pretty flat weak as a modest tightening in discounts offset further NAV falls. We take a look at the question of relative performance between High-Y...

ARDC is a closed-end fund focused on fixed income instruments. The fund invests predominantly in a portfolio of floating rate leveraged loans, high yield bonds and CLO debt. ARDC is down significantly since our Sell rating in February, driven by wider credit spreads and risk free ...

For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad market...

The expected risk premium continued sliding in April for the Global Markets Index (GMI). Tuesday’s revision reflects a drop to a 5.4% annualized increase for the long term – a relatively large cut of 40 basis points from last month’s estimate. The forecast ref...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the second week of April and highlight recent market action. The recent rally fizzled as the CEF space fell sharply with most sectors dropping more than 1%. We highlight funds that are likely to be more resilient in the face o...

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top DxYxZ funds are DSL, BGH and EHI. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. For further details see: The Quality Closed-End Fund Report, April 2022