BGX News and Press, Blackstone GSO Long Short Credit Income Fund From 03/20/18

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...

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 Feb. 11, 2018. The Chemist's Quality CEF Report is a monthly feature. Previous editions of the Report ...

The common wisdom is that leveraged loans (where the paper is generally floating rate) are preferable to junk bonds in times of rising rates. That's been correct thus far this year, and Goldman credit strategist Lotfi Karoui says the trend should continue alongside more rate hikes this year....

The strength of January disappeared in February despite little negative macroeconomic news, leading many analysts to conclude that profit-taking (and to a certain extend deleveraging) was driving the sudden fall in the S&P 500 ( SPY ). And while the shot-up in the VIX drove a fascinating, ...

This is the fourth 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 78 original (now 64) holdings (as of November 10, 2017) in my Part 2 article . As...

GSO / Blackstone Debt Funds Management LLC, an affiliate of GSO Capital Partners LP (‘‘GSO’’), announced the declaration of monthly distributions for its three closed-end funds (the “Funds”). GSO is one of the world’s largest credit-oriented a...

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

The brutal volatility in stocks this month has shaken some faith in the credit markets, with the PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio (NYSEARCA: BKLN ) suffering $104.2M in outflows in the week ended February 12, according to Bloomberg. That would be the largest weekly outflow in nearly two yea...

Since it's January, we are blessed with the annual outlooks from market prognosticators. We read the one's we respect and even some of the one's we don't. The consensus is that growth could accelerate a bit, inflation is likely to firm, and interest rates rise. For our approach, 2017 was a g...

Alongside major outflows this year from junk bond funds, loan funds notched their third straight week of inflows, according to Lipper (as reported by Bloomberg). At $612M for the week ended Feb. 7, inflows were the strongest in nearly one year. More news on: Oxford Lane Capital, PowerShare...