BOE News and Press, Blackrock Enhanced Global Dividend Trust of Beneficial Interest From 06/15/20

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist BlackRock Enhanced Global Dividend Trust ( BOE ) and Voya Global Advantage and Premium Opportunity Fund ( IGA ), are two covered call writing funds focused on global equities. Since global securities have been rather weak, these t...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist We are continuing to navigate a volatile environment. Most are quite aware of the risks of the distribution cuts that will be coming down the pipeline shortly. We have already begun seeing cuts from some of the funds in the CEF wo...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Throughout the massive COVID-19 selloff, Stanford Chemist and I have received several inquiries relating to the bankruptcy of closed-end funds or funds going "bust." As we aren't out of the woods yet with selloff pressures, now mi...

This time, we will present our readers with the Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Global Dividend Opportunities Fund (ETO), which was incorporated in 2004. It is a closed-ended fund that is primarily focused on the global dividend-paying companies with a strong emphasis on a tax-advantaged income. In...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist In a previous piece, we covered why an N-2 filing is important and what this could mean when the 497 was filed. We discussed that the N-2 was when closed-end funds filed a registration for new shares. This ultimately meant that a fund was either conducti...

By Chris Turner, Global Head of Markets and Regional Head of Research for UK & CEE Aggressive easing from the Bank of England and presumed budgetary support from the UK government later is welcome coordination at a national level. Yet there seems little prospect of anything similar ...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist . 2019 had been quite the year. We experienced a tremendous performance of almost 30% ( final return clocked in at 28.8%, with dividend reinvestment this was 31.49%). This can be compared to the S&P 500's 8% average annual returns. Before the index sta...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist . This article was originally published on November 23, 2019. We previously covered the topic of analyzing fixed-income and preferred stock distribution sustainability. Looking at NII trends and interest rate impacts to gauge the continuation of a rate. W...

This article was originally published on October 29, 2019. Most closed-end fund investors know that distribution cuts come with the nature of the closed-end fund's structure. The fact is that when a fund is paying out 90% of their NII and 98% of their realized capital gains on an annual ba...

(Please note that this was first published to members of Yield Hunting on October 15) How To Read The Tables The headers are a bit confusing, so I wanted to go through them briefly to help make the lists more useful. Discount/Premium: The fund's current discount or premium as of the ...