BTT News and Press, BlackRock Municipal 2030 Target Term Trust From 05/07/18

BlackRock will host a municipal closed-end fund conference call for financial advisors and investors on Wednesday, May 9 th at 4:15pm ET. Topics will include: Where to be positioned on the yield curve in this environment Impact of rising leverage costs on closed-end fund di...

The first article in this series, which framed our investment objective and introduced the idea of a Term CEF Ladder, can be found here . The second article, specific to Mortgage Bond Term CEFs, is here , and our discussion of Senior Loan Term CEFs is here . There are 45 CEFs with sched...

The first article in this series, which framed our investment objective and introduced the idea of a Term CEF Ladder, can be found here . The second article, specific to Mortgage Bond CEFs, is here . There are 45 CEFs with scheduled termination dates. Reader "Commish JW" alerted us to the ...

The first article in this series, which introduced the idea of a Term CEF Ladder and takes a more top-down approach to the markets, can be found here . As a quick refresher, there are 43 CEFs with scheduled “Term” dates around which time each trust is scheduled to liquidate. W...

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Data from the article are from February 23, 2018 Target term CEFs As I have explained before, I'm attracted to target term CEFs because of their defined term limits. These are funds that are set to liquidate, or convert to an open-ended structure, at a set date from now. We appear to...

The State of Connecticut issued $620M in 10-year bonds at 3.39%, which is 93 bps above AAA Munis. More news on: iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond ETF, Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund, News on the U.S. economy, News on ETFs,...

BlackRock says it maybe a good time to pick up municipal securities on the cheap, amid a temporary up tick in supply. More news on: iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond ETF, Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund, News on ETFs, Rea...

The strength of January disappeared in February despite little negative macroeconomic news, leading many analysts to conclude that profit-taking (and to a certain extend deleveraging) was driving the sudden fall in the S&P 500 ( SPY ). And while the shot-up in the VIX drove a fascinating, ...

BlackRock Municipal Target Term Trust (NYSE: BTT ) - $0.0718. BlackRock Strategic Municipal Trust (NYSE: BSD ) - $0.0650. BlackRock MuniEnhanced Fund (NYSE: MEN ) - $0.0480. BlackRock MuniHoldings Investment Quality Fund (NYSE: MFL ) - $0.0715. BlackRock MuniYield Investment Quality ...