BKLN News and Press, Invesco Senior Loan From 07/09/22

Amid soaring inflation and dislocated markets, it may feel like investors are in the midst of a storm. Recent spread-widening has created one of the most attractive entry points for the sector since the great financial crisis. Spreads on senior securitized bonds rated AAA now rang...

GOF has a yield of 13.58%. This is attractive if the distribution can be supported. I continue my series digging into CEFs beyond the yield with a look at GOF which invests in various forms of debt. While GOF has positioned its portfolio to be ready to take advantage once the mark...

Bank loans have floating rates. So in periods of rising rates, they offer low duration - or interest rate sensitivity. Bank loans tend to provide attractive yields, on par with “high yield” bonds, but with lower volatility and higher “seniority” in the capi...

MCI is a fixed income CEF focused on private placement securities. The fund was first offered to the public in 1971 and specializes on middle-market leveraged loans. MCI is similar to a BDC in many aspects but has a better historical performance and risk/reward metrics than a numb...

Invesco Senior Loan ETF (BKLN) - $0.0660. 30-Day SEC Yield of 4.36% as of June 17. Payable June 30; for shareholders of record June 22; ex-div June 21. For further details see: Invesco Senior Loan ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.0660

FTF completed a rights offering that caused its discount to widen earlier this year. The overall state of the fixed-income market has pushed this fund down even further as a bond fund. The "limited" duration of the fund has done little to stop this, but the major factor of decline...

Short-term, high-yield fixed income has been a popular way to play the bond market this year. BKLN is a 2022 outperformer in a year of huge fixed-income losses. Traders should use the recent rally to sell BKLN. Prospective buyers should wait for a spike in corporate credit spr...

Invesco Senior Loan ETF (BKLN) - $0.0610. 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.93% as of May 20. Payable May 31; for shareholders of record May 24; ex-div May 23. For further details see: Invesco Senior Loan ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.0610

This year has seen significant volatility in credit markets given the tumultuous macroeconomic backdrop and hawkish Federal Reserve. Investment-grade bonds, bank loans, and high-yield bonds could perform differently now than in prior risk-off periods due to asset class-specific develo...

For investors worried about continued higher policy rates, duration risk can be hedged to various degrees while allowing investors to retain exposure to the credit risk. Many issuers in bank loan and private credit markets issue floating rate instruments where the issuer is exposed to...