BGT News and Press, BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust From 02/03/20

This article was originally published on January 4th. The closed-end fund market is commonly viewed as relatively inefficient. These inefficiencies include a strong relationship between current yield and discount, as well as big price jumps after distribution cuts. This kind of behavior l...

Fixed-income investors are faced with a bond market that presents three unattractive features: Elevated duration or sensitivity to interest rates Lower yields Rich bond valuations In this article, we take a look at how bond market risk metrics and valuation characteristics have shi...

The BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (BGT) with $328 million in assets under management is a closed-end-fund that invests in high-yield floating rate debt securities, primarily bank loans. The strategy results in a low effective duration protecting the fund against rising interest rates ...

BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (NYSE: BGT ) declares $0.0764/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 7.26% Payable Dec. 19; for shareholders of record Dec. 16; ex-div Dec. 13. See BGT Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More news ...

This article was originally published on October 29, 2019. Most closed-end fund investors know that distribution cuts come with the nature of the closed-end fund's structure. The fact is that when a fund is paying out 90% of their NII and 98% of their realized capital gains on an annual ba...

Author's note : This article was first released to members on November 4, 2019. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund ((CEF)) sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently conc...

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund ((CEF)) sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the informati...

Note: This article was released to members Oct. 18 The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on ...

Note: This article was initially released to members 2 weeks ago. Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highli...

Note: This report was initially released to members 1 month ago. Chemist's "Quality" Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Based on...