BGX News and Press, Blackstone GSO Long Short Credit Income Fund From 10/08/18

Author's note: This is our weekly commentary that goes out every Sunday evening to our members. We are posting it publicly this one time only. It is setup with a macro 'week in review' as well as a closed-end fund segment. We also have some additional analysis near the end on various topics. ...

Background Global bond bubble about to pop or just another "head-fake"? Value of global bonds has dropped by a whopping $880bn this week, most since Nov2016 as US treasury yields spiked w/ the curve strongly steepening after economic data in the region continued to come very strong. Treasu...

It's a day of record highs for US Treasury long-term yields. Stronger-than-expected economic data saw Treasuries selling off, consequently pushing the 10-year yield to 3.144%, its highest level since 2011. Yield on the 30-year bond also tops the 2018 peak to reach a four-year high at 3.298...

Summary Welcome to my September update for my Green Dot Portfolio, a small 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. Tw...

Last week ended with the S&P 500 ( SPY ), Dow Jones ( DIA ) and Nasdaq 100 ( QQQ ) all finishing at or near all-time highs. ^SPX data by YCharts On a total return basis, S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) closes above its 200-day moving average for the 564th consecutive trading day. That's th...

Our "High Yield for Granny" article ( link here ) last March introduced the idea that you could achieve an "Income Factory" strategy at various levels of yield, risk and return. In particular, we introduced a portfolio of solid closed-end funds whose average distribution was about 8% as an alt...

Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds for further due diligence and investigation. Based on the feedback and comments that I see in both my premium and public articles, it seems that a very many number of inves...

Welcome to my August 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. Last month I surpasse...

For the first time in a year, there will be no leveraged loan defaults for an entire calendar month, according to Fitch. More news on: Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., Voya Prime Rate Trust, News on ETFs, Read more ...

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 ...