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My next article will be submitted, as soon as possible, after March 31, 2020, and will include an estimate for the April 2020 dividend for Credit Suisse X-Links Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( REML ). It will also include a postmortem for the UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mo...

Zamansky LLC is investigating UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBS), the broker-dealer, over possible sale practice violations which resulted in losses to investors in ETRACs (Symbols: HDLV, SMHD, DVHL, CEFL, CEFZ, BDCL, LBDC, MORL, MRRL, LRET, MLPQ, HOML, MLPZ, LMLP and WTID). UBS ETRACs are exc...

Picking Up The Pieces After the mREIT and ETRACs Catastrophe Some have inquired as to how my 15%+ current yield constrained portfolio has done in the recent market collapse. The UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( MORL ) and, later, UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged Mo...

"The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets. Even if it is your own." - Baron Rothschild Well, I am sitting on the gutter in America. I am watching the stuff slide underneath my feet. Mark Grant is telling you, "There is blood in the streets." It is a medical crisis, which...

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

Funds that allocate to other CEFs can be an attractive investment during periods of CEF market dislocation, providing a beta play on a normalizing market. In this article, we review different funds available to investors for such a broad-based CEF exposure. We don't think we have reached the...

The 10 year Treasury is at 1.47%. The 30 year Treasury bond is at an all time low yield of 1.92%. Just deal with it. Get over it. There ain't no yield in sight, and none is likely to show up anytime soon. The Fixed-Income markets have been flummoxed by the world's central banks and they n...

One of the factors in my estimation that will be a huge part of 2020 is the Heaven that has been created by the central banks of the world for Borrowers. We are still tracking approximately $14 trillion in negatively yielding debt and while this number is not currently at its high mark of $17 ...

We continue to live in a "Borrower's Paradise," Wonderland. That much is obvious with the 3 month Bill at 1.54%, the two year Treasury at 1.53% and the 10 year Treasury at 1.77%. Touting his bilateral trade deals and financial deregulation, at Davos, President Trump said that "we still have ...

The most problematic part of the markets at present, in my humble opinion, is the lack of yield. Basically, it just ain't nowhere to be found. We are in a "Borrower's Paradise" and a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell." The real issue now is "Absolute Yield" and not "Relative Yield." Consider that ...