CHY News and Press, Calamos Convertible and High Income Fund From 08/16/22

19 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 17 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. SMM will pay a "Saba special distribution", funded by management. ZTR rights offering is now live. Author’s note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laborator...

For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promises high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad marke...

The AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund II primarily invests in convertible securities and non-convertible high-yield bonds rated below investment grade. While some Virtus AllianzGI FI funds include equities, investors liking the manager should consider their other funds before NC...

We had another down week nearly across all asset classes with the markets shedding nearly 3% and the Nasdaq nearly 4%. Fixed income was also down. Nothing worked. Yields were up again with the 10-year touching 2.95% on the week but finishing at 2.90%. Oil was down $5 to $101/bl and th...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the second week of April and highlight recent market action. The recent rally fizzled as the CEF space fell sharply with most sectors dropping more than 1%. We highlight funds that are likely to be more resilient in the face o...

CHI has been having a challenging year in 2022, along with most other investments. The fund is most heavily allocated to convertible bonds that can provide some downside protection. At the same time, convertible bonds have shown to be less interest-rate sensitive and move more clo...

A convertible bond combines features of stocks and traditional fixed income securities. In rising rate environments, convertibles have historically done quite well relative to longer-duration traditional fixed income investments. For a lot of investors, it’s tough to buy eq...

Today, we are looking at how to tell if a fund might be paying a sustainable distribution or not. We use several examples covering both fixed-income and equity funds to help highlight their differences. Overall, fixed-income funds are more straightforward to analyze than equity fu...

There are several reasons why closed-end funds can pay higher distribution yields to investors. Closed-end funds can invest in more complex investments and include leverage or other strategies to help generate higher yields. These more stable payouts from these funds can be a mass...

NCZ and its sister fund NCV share many similarities as convertible and high-yield bond investing funds. I've covered NCV previously, but NCZ looks to be a better deal at this time due to the discount. While these funds are higher-yielding funds in the convertible space, there are ...