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Introduction In this article, I will make a weekly review of CEFs that invest in senior loans. Considering the risk and return, senior loans are positioned between investment grade corporate bonds and high yield bonds. Usually, they have a floating rate feature and are expected to be less ...

Investors led by Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX ) are set to start marketing $8B of leveraged corporate loans next week to finance their buyout of Thomson Reuters's (NYSE: TRI ) financial and risk business, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter. More news on: The Blacksto...

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out 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 information has been sourced from C...

Welcome to my July update for my Green Dot Portfolio, a self-managed retirement portfolio created in a Roth IRA trading account. My goal is to yield a total realized return of at least 8% annually in cash income using high-yield dividend investments and swing trading. I have made continuing ch...

For the inaugural issue of The Chemist's CEF Report (September 2016), describing the background and rationale of the Report, please click here . This edition uses data taken from the close of June 4, 2018. Previous editions of the Report can be searched using the keyword "cefrep". Method...

As is customary on the first of the month, fund sponsors announced their distributions for the next pay period. We go through these very quickly given the inefficiencies of the CEF market- it often takes days before the market really recognizes the cut and prices it into the fund. Most of th...

Welcome to the 8th monthly update for my Green Dot Portfolio. This is my self-managed retirement portfolio created in a Roth IRA trading account. My goal is to yield a total return of at least 8% annually in income using high-yield dividend investments and swing trading. I have made continuing...

Leveraged loans issued at the razor-thin margin of just 175 basis points over Libor haven't been doing well in the secondary market, reports Bloomberg, with most recent deals being bid below par. According to the data, 89.5% of loans issued at that spread in May and June are at or below par,...

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 May 16, 2018. The Chemist's Quality CEF Report is a monthly feature. Previous editions of the Report c...

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...