EXD News and Press, Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Bond of Beneficial Interest From 03/31/20

BOSTON , March 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eaton Vance closed-end funds listed below released today the estimated sources of their March distributions (each a "Fund").  This press release is issued as required by the Funds' managed distribution plan (Plan) and an exemptive order rec...

Originally published March 26, 2020 I want to begin by saying that, despite the disquieting events of the past three weeks, the structure of municipal bond ETFs, which have proven to be both efficient and effective in the delivery of tax-free income, remains intact. Up to this point, neith...

These are the closed-end funds that I purchased when we hit the initial 10% correction territory. We have gone down further since. However, I believe these are still attractive names to be holding. Co-produced by Stanford Chemist It certainly has been a wild week for the market. We h...

By Mark Paris, Chief Investment Officer, Head of Municipal Strategies, Invesco Fixed Income The world was a different place only a few weeks ago. Municipal bond funds had experienced 60 straight weeks of inflows - a record streak totaling around $75 billion. 1 But fast forward to the ...

Until very recently municipal bonds were a very different experience, finishing 2019 with a 14-month run of positive net inflows 2 , equating $95 billion into open-end mutual funds and exchange traded funds. 2020 is also setting flow records, although from an outflow perspective, with Friday...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA The municipal bond market has suffered one of the most dramatic back-offs it has ever seen; and it was accomplished in about nine business days. The rise in yields has been dramatic and fierce and had lots of elements to it. This is a quick synopsis of some of the ...

Last week was a wild one in the municipal bond market. Investors withdrew some $12.2 billion, marking the end of more than a year of inflows that saw $130 billion enter the market. Yields spiked as traditional liquidity providers retreated and some mutual funds and ETFs became forced sellers. ...

By Michael Hendrix On Monday, the Federal Reserve went all-in to support America's shuttered economy. Among its most remarkable moves was its backstop of the $3.8 trillion municipal bond ("muni") market, a critical source of financing for states, counties, and municipalities. The Fed hop...

By Daryl Clements As the novel coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the markets over the past month, municipal bonds initially benefited from the flight to safety that drove Treasury yields lower. But most recently, markets told a different story, as muni yields rose-and prices fell-more ...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist In a previous piece, we covered why an N-2 filing is important and what this could mean when the 497 was filed. We discussed that the N-2 was when closed-end funds filed a registration for new shares. This ultimately meant that a fund was either conducti...