BIT News and Press, BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust of Beneficial Interest From 09/24/18

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup summarizes 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 CEFInsight or the...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC has authorized the renewal of its twenty taxable fixed-income and equity closed-end funds. More news on: BlackRock Energy&Resources Trust, BlackRock Enhanced Capital&Income Fund, BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust, Financial stocks news, Read more ...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Boards of Directors/Trustees of twenty BlackRock taxable fixed-income and equity closed-end funds (the “Funds”) have authorized the renewal of open market share repurchase programs (the “Repurchase Programs”). Under...

Following our recent blog summarizing key takeaways from BlackRock Investment Institute's Mid-Year Global Investment Outlook, this post takes a closer look at the first theme: a wider range of growth outcomes amidst rising macro uncertainty. We believe macro uncertainty will be higher than i...

“Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.” - Warren Buffett Our marketplace service is now in its third year and continues to grow well. The need remains for investors who are in or are approaching retirement to find safer income. The market continu...

It's hard to find much of anything too exciting to say about the second quarter that we just completed. Like a football team with a strong "ground game," we continued to grind out the yardage with a cash distribution yield slightly over 12% that we can re-invest and compound, growing the incom...

A few years ago I became intrigued by a spate of articles and comments by authors and readers about high-yield investment strategy as an alternative to dividend growth (DGI) investing or other approaches to portfolio design - particularly for retirees and those approaching retirement. The thes...

My Portfolio Currently I figured I would offer a brief overview of what is in my portfolio for the followers who are interested. Everyone has their own investment objectives and should try to build a portfolio that meets what they are looking for short or long term. These positions stay st...

Author's note : Data were taken from CEFConnect on the close of April 20. For the inaugural issue of The Chemist's High-High-Low CEF Report (October 2017), describing the background and rationale of the Report, please click here . For the "High-High-Low" report screens following 3 at...

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