DSU News and Press, Blackrock Debt Strategies Fund Inc. From 02/10/23

Summary BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund is a fixed-income CEF. The fund focuses on leveraged loans, which compose over 80% of the collateral. The CEF has a fully covered 8.5% dividend yield and is down only -4% on a one-year lookback. The fund is currently trading at a -8% discou...

BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund ( NYSE: DSU ) declares $0.0705/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 9.05% Payable Jan. 31; for shareholders of record Jan. 13; ex-div Jan. 12. See DSU Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. ...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BlackRock”) will host a conference call on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 2:00pm ET featuring portfolio managers Russ Koesterich, Phil Ruvinsky, and Mitchell Garfin. Funds that will be covered: BlackRock Capital Allocation Trust (NYSE: BCAT) ...

BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund ( NYSE: DSU ) had declared $0.0705/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 8.89% Payable Nov. 30; for shareholders of record Nov. 15; ex-div Nov. 14. See DSU Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend ...

Summary Rising interest rates have been pushing down the market but not all assets are negatively affected by rising rates. DSU invests in both high-yield debt and corporate loans, the latter of which should hold their value in a rising-rate environment. The fund just recently...

BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund ( NYSE: DSU ) declares $0.0705/share monthly dividend , 16.5% increase from prior dividend of $0.0605. Forward yield 9.28% Payable Oct. 31; for shareholders of record Oct. 14; ex-div Oct. 13. See DSU Dividend Scorecard, Yiel...

Summary Credit asset classes (corporate loans, high yield bonds, etc.) pay investors interest (i.e. real cash). So even when all assets (stocks, bonds, etc.) are dropping in price, funds that hold credit assets keep cranking out the cash to pay distributions. They don't have t...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Boards of Directors/Trustees of fifty BlackRock municipal, taxable fixed income, equity, and multi-asset closed-end funds (the “Funds”) have authorized the renewal of open market share repurchase programs (the “Repurc...

Summary High yield has generated much higher returns than loans over long periods of time even though loans had comparable drawdowns during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the COVID bear market. High yield has outperformed loans by about 275 basis points per year for the tra...

The revised long-term outlook projects an annualized return of 4.9%. The current risk premium forecast for GMI suggests that multi-asset-class strategies overall will generate lower returns relative to results posted in recent years. Combining forecasts via several models may prov...