DMO News and Press, Western Asset Mortgage Defined Opportunity Fund Inc From 06/29/22

The drop across the income investment space has been both broad and deep, hitting just about every type of asset. We take a look at which features have enabled some securities to weather the storm more successfully than others - we find these features more prevalent in shorter-maturit...

CEF discounts continue to meander without direction for most of the last few months (outside the mid-May one-week swoon). In terms of valuations, senior loans are the cheapest, followed by Limited Duration and Global Income. High yield and Investment grade round out the top 5 cheapest...

The current market sell-off has been unrelenting and broad-based, offering few respites for investors. We take a look at how the current drawdown compares to the other ones we have seen this century to gauge its likely extent. We also highlight a number of themes we are following ...

Today I want to show you how to build a “three-click” income portfolio that gives us three things every income investor craves, especially these days: Big discounts on our investments. Big dividends, with a 10.6% yield averaged out across three funds. Wide di...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the third week of May and highlight recent market action. The CEF space had a pretty flat weak as a modest tightening in discounts offset further NAV falls. We take a look at the question of relative performance between High-Y...

Western Asset Mortgage Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE: DMO) today announced the financial position of the Fund as of March 31, 2022. Footnotes: (a) The difference between total assets and total net assets is due primarily to the Fund’s use of borrowings; total net assets do no...

Western Asset Mortgage Defined Opportunity Fund (NYSE:DMO) declares $0.10/share monthly dividend, -4.8% decrease from prior dividend of $0.105. Forward yield 9.92% Payable July 1; for shareholders of record June 23; ex-div June 22. Payable Aug. 1; for shareholders of record July 22; ex-div Ju...

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...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the first full week of April and highlight recent market action. All but one CEF sector was down on the week, bringing to an end a hopeful brief reversal of year-to-date weakness in the space. We quantify the expected change i...

We review CEF market valuation and performance through the last week of March and highlight recent market action. CEFs rallied strongly to close out a pretty poor quarter for returns. We discuss some of the misconceptions surrounding interest rates and the performance of loan CEFs...