CMU News and Press, MFS Municipal Income Trust From 02/10/21

Having strongly underperformed the wider stock market in 2020, high-dividend stocks have shown early signs of a rebound in recent weeks. Dividend cuts and suspensions have started to normalize, and the ongoing low-interest-rate environment and the recent tightening in credit spreads s...

2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...

MFS Investment Management ® (MFS ® ) is announcing a portfolio management addition for MFS ® High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE: CXE), MFS ® High Yield Municipal Trust (NYSE: CMU), and MFS ® Municipal Income Trust (NYSE: MFM), three closed end...

December was another good month for CEFs with some discount tightening and NAV growth. The Core Portfolio was up over 1% with the NAV up 1.8%. The January Effect could bring discounts to an expensive level if the recent trends continue. At that point we would want to start reducing CE...

MFS High Yield Municipal Trust (CMU) declares $0.018/share monthly dividend, -2.7% decrease from prior dividend of $0.018.Forward yield 4.9%Payable Jan. 29; for shareholders of record Jan. 20; ex-div Jan. 19.See CMU Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details...

2020 was an unforgettable year in markets, delivering a number of important lessons to income investors. We review some of these lessons such as ignoring CEF premiums, chasing yield, failing to keep dry powder handy and others. In the current market, we remain fully invested in ou...

Allocating to municipal bonds can be a fraught proposition of having to choose duration, credit quality, investment vehicle and other investment characteristics. This is why many investors short-circuit this process by choosing CEFs of a fund company they are familiar with. We tak...

"Quality" is a term much bandied about in the CEF space without a clear definition as to what qualifies as a "quality fund" We suggest two dimensions of quality: CEF outperformance relative to its sector and open-end fund alternatives as well as good governance features. We also h...

In today's markets, pairing US Treasuries with US high yield is a good starting point. This is exactly the time that you want to diversify, and we are investing in many opportunities outside of the US high-yield market. Even in Europe, we see opportunities: the financial space, ba...

"High-yield" tends to be associated with corporate credit in investor income portfolios. However, the high-yield/unrated municipal sector is also worth a look. We discuss some benefits of HY muni bond CEFs over their corporate analogues such as relative valuation, higher-quality fund ...