BGX News and Press, Blackstone GSO Long Short Credit Income Fund From 06/01/18

Welcome to the 7th monthly update for my Green Dot Portfolio. By all measures of income and return on investment, May was a very profitable month. (Source: Image from www.pinterest.com) Recap of my Green Dot Portfolio My portfolio is an active, self-managed retirement portfolio crea...

For the inaugural issue of The Chemist's Quality CEF Report (September 2017), describing the background and rationale of the Report, please click here . Data were taken from the close of Apr. 13, 2018. The Chemist's Quality CEF Report is a monthly feature. Previous editions of the Report ...

Money managers' strong demand for loans to junk-rated companies is allowing borrowers in the $1 trillion market for leveraged loans to push the envelope and make the debt riskier, Bloomberg reports . More news on: Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund, Blackstone/GSO Strategic Credit Fund...

We've all heard the advertising: Negligible default rates during the financial crisis and high recoveries on what did default. But Janney's Guy LeBas isn't buying it. More news on: Oxford Lane Capital, PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., News on ETFs, Ne...

This is my 6th monthly update for my Green Dot Portfolio. I introduced my approach to this mixed-asset, dynamic portfolio with a swing trading twist in my Part 1 article and provided a detailed list of the original holdings (as of November 10, 2017) in my Part 2 article . As well, I have pr...

Holding court at the Milken Global Conference, Guggenheim Partners' Scott Minerd reminds that leveraged loan ETFs (also called senior loans or bank loans) promise near-instant liquidity while the paper backing them very much does not. More news on: Oxford Lane Capital, PowerShares Senior L...

Blackstone/GSO Strategic Credit Fund (NYSE: BGB ) declares $0.105/share monthly dividend. Blackstone/GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund (NYSE: BGX ) declares $0.103/share monthly dividend. Blackstone/GSO Senior Floating Rate Term Fund (NYSE: BSL ) declares $0.097/share monthly d...

Author's note : Data from the article are current as of March 15, 2018. For the inaugural issue of The Chemist's Quality CEF Report (September 2017), describing the background and rationale of the Report, please click here . Data were taken from the close of March 15, 2018. The Chemi...

This is the fifth monthly update for my Green Dot Portfolio. I introduced my approach to this mixed-asset, dynamic portfolio with a swing trading twist in my Part 1 article and provided a detailed list of the original holdings (as of November 10, 2017) in my Part 2 aricle . As well, I have ...

I recently floated the idea of creating a "widow and orphans" version of the Savvy Senior "Income Factory" that I have been refining, tweaking and reviewing for the past seven years. As readers know, my core portfolio is a high income (i.e. high current yield), largely credit oriented (a...