BKLN News and Press, Invesco Senior Loan From 09/04/19

The XAI Octagon Floating Rate & Alternative Income Term Trust ( XFLT ) could use some rebranding. With a lengthy name like that and an even more complicated business model and investment structure, no wonder it is relatively under-appreciated in the marketplace. Investment Strategy F...

(Source: Pexels/Pixbay ) The XAI Octagon Floating Rate & Alternative Income Term Trust ( XFLT ) is likely one of the most exotic sounding ETFs most investors will find on the market today. Put simply, the fund invests in high yield leveraged loans, much like "playing banker". On one h...

Some $467M flowed out of U.S. leveraged loan funds in the week ended Aug. 28, following $864M in outflows in the previous week, according to Refinitiv's Lipper. More news on: Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Voya Prime Rate Trust, Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Fund, Financial stocks news, News ...

Phenomenal Return for Bonds The 10% total return from bonds* over the past year is the highest Y/Y gain since 2009 (which saw a big bounce following the 2008 financial crisis). *As measured by the performance of the iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF ( AGG ) However, as strange as it...

If you are asking yourself why, all of a sudden, the Trump administration announced that it would delay until December 15 some of the tariffs that were originally scheduled to come into effect September 1 , look no further. Sure thing, avoiding a recession in 2020 as well as concerns ove...

As the US-China ( MCHI , FXI ) trade fight is escalating (by the day), it's not a big surprise to see some major shifts when it comes to asset allocation. The yield curve inversion deepening and global bond yields are converging. US 10-year yields ( TLT , SPTL , VGLT , IEF ) are the lo...

Bounce Attempt Possible In Coming Days According to breadth data from stockcharts.com, Monday’s intraday low was the lowest NYSE Advance-Decline Volume reading in history. Given total market volume has changed significantly over the past 80 years, it is more relevant to compare Mond...

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." - Frederick Douglass Emerging market bonds ( LEMB ) have come bounding back with incredible momentum. They are only performing second to high ...

My initial approach to building a tactical income strategy was detailed in a Seeking Alpha article I published in January, " Building A High Performance Tactical Income Strategy ." This article describes a much improved strategy. Each investor has his/her own investment priorities and the fa...

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 ...