BHK News and Press, Blackrock Core Bond Trust From 12/09/20

November was one of the best months for markets in general and that includes CEFs, which rallied hard. Our Core Portfolio was up 7.2% in the month. Discounts have tightened materially in the last month but still remain much wider than at the start of the year. We describe why we t...

BlackRock Core Bond Trust (BHK) declares $0.0746/share monthly dividend, 10.4% increase from prior dividend of $0.0676.Forward yield 5.63%Payable Dec. 21; for shareholders of record Dec. 15; ex-div Dec. 14.See BHK Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details s...

The BHK fund has generated strong returns supported by the low interest rate environment and fundamental tailwinds towards investment grade bonds. The fund appears expensive considering a historically narrow discount to NAV and also tight distribution yield which warrants caution. ...

The K shape makes a lot of sense, where the upper end kind of is bouncing, the upper part of the K and then the other side are declining. One of the effects of COVID is it's essentially accelerated the adoption of multiple technologies at a mass level that we would never have seen so ...

For income investors, closed-end funds are an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promises high distributions and a reasonable total return. The market downturn earlier this year exposed the risk of high volatility and deep drawdowns with investing i...

I introduced the Simple Retirement Portfolio to investors earlier in the year. The goal of the portfolio is to provide retirees with a simple portfolio for their retirement savings, but one with market-beating shareholder returns. The portfolio accomplished its goal, outperforming...

As we write this, the broader market, as represented by the S&P 500, posted an all-time high once again. In a sense, it marked an end to the shortest bear market in U.S. history. The broader market continues to defy gravity in the face of many challenges that still remain in the real eco...

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All day long the equity indexes roll across the screen. Buy this stock. Sell that stock. You would think most days that equities are the only market in existence. Back in March the headlines were awash with 10%, 25% and 50% corrections coming. Now, in the financial press, you might think that ...

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