CIF News and Press, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund From 06/24/20

Junk issuers have sold $46.7B of bonds so far in June, topping the previous monthly record of $46.4B in September 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg . More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, BlackRock Corporate H...

The lack of issuance and supply over the last almost year or so, that's what makes the TIC data so fascinating. And relevant, if for other reasons, too. CLO issuance, according to a bunch of sources, peaked back last June. Remember that whole "recession scare" with the yield curve last summer?...

Author’s note: this article was released to members of CEF/ETF Income Laboratory on June 15, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] ...

Billionaire investor and GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham is growing more and more sure that the U.S. stock market's rebound amid the coronavirus pandemic is a bubble that will end up hurting many people. "My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is the fourth 'Real McCoy' bubble of my...

So much of the mainstream financial media focuses on the stock market, and yet the corporate bond markets, and that would include securitized product and even municipal bonds, have (in my opinion) a huge information vacuum for the smaller advisor or individual investor. The corporate bond ma...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy As investors continue to sort through the aftermath of the bond market turmoil we witnessed in March, questions arise as to where there are potential relative value opportunities. The first sector that comes to mind is U.S. high-yield ((HY))...

Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on June 8, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in t...

By Breakingviews Bond investors are showing an impressive willingness to help keep companies afloat amid dwindling revenue thanks to coronavirus lockdowns. So far this year firms have raised some $1.1 trillion in the U.S. high-grade bond market alone, almost as much as in all of 2019. Junk...

When last I wrote, corporate credit was trading at extreme levels only seen during two or three brief periods in the last 30 years. At the time, we were extolling the opportunity to buy credit assets at historically cheap levels, and while we could not predict where the market would bottom o...

Author's note: This article was released to members on June 1, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as...