BKLN News and Press, Invesco Senior Loan From 07/29/19

At least $6.02B of U.S. leveraged loans are set to price by the middle of next month, resulting from a surge in launches today, Bloomberg First Word reports. More news on: WestJet Airlines Ltd., Onex Corporation, Oxford Lane Capital, Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ...

Investors often disagree on their strategy. This is because every investor's goals are different. As investors, we like to lump people into groups or communities who are striving for similar, but not identical goals. These groups often disparage each other and believe their methodology is su...

For the first week in three, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $25.3 billion for Lipper's fund flows week ended June 12, 2019. Fund investors were net purchasers of money market funds (+$12.9 billion), taxable fixed...

So let's talk high income! Over the years I have discussed a number of asset classes and ETF investments which focus on very high income, or more precisely distribution rates. These would be asset classes such as closed-end funds and REITs, many of which are packaged in the very popular...

Long-term strategic investing is usually baselined against naïve mixes of the S&P 500, as a proxy for a broad mix of large-cap U.S. stocks, and iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF ( AGG ), as a proxy for broad core bonds including U.S. government and investment grade corporate bonds....

While the leading indices went through a sharp rally during the first months of 2019, the bond markets "insist" on drawing a completely different picture. Bonds ( LQD , AGG , BND , HYG , JNK , AWF , BKLN ) suggest that the US economy ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) is heading to a slowd...

Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past four months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high di...

Corporate America has taken on substantially more debt in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Today, the underlying structure of that leverage looks different. Fewer bonds are being issued. Bank loans to indebted companies now match junk bonds in total issue. This article will review the m...

The Invesco Senior Loan ETF (BKLN) is an investment that really has no place in investors' portfolios. The entire "asset class" is unattractive from an investment perspective providing little if anything in the way of risk adjusted returns. Also, if investors do, for some reason, insist on inv...

During Christmas time, the main indices were more than 20% off of their 2018 highs. Note that at that time, stocks were trading at the widest gap, over the past decade, to their previous highs! Only a hundred days later and the SPDR ® S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ), SPDR ® Dow Jones Ind...