FCT News and Press, First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II of Beneficial Interest From 07/31/20

Author's note: This article was released to members of CEF/ETF Income Laboratory on July 21. Please check latest data before investing. Dear CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members, I would like to welcome the new members who have joined us recently. Newer members should check out the " Gett...

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (the "Fund") (NYSE: FCT) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.105 per share payable on August 17, 2020, to shareholders of record as of August 4, 2020. The ex-dividend date is e...

I haven't posted an article for some time, not because I have been inactive, but because I have been trying to get a better handle on where markets are headed, and which sectors have the greatest potential to participate. At the present time, the Fed continues to provide market support; howe...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Dividend cuts for closed-end funds were something that we certainly anticipated throughout this latest sell-off. Not only is that playing a role in CEFs, but will in ETFs and individual stocks just the same. This might be more pre...

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (the "Fund") (NYSE: FCT) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.105 per share payable on July 15, 2020, to shareholders of record as of July 2, 2020. The ex-dividend date is expec...

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...

(This report was published to members of Yield Hunting on May 20. All data is from that date unless otherwise stated.) First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income II ( FCT ) The largest position I own in the floating rate space comes from not one held in the Core Portfolio but one that...

Foreword Any collection of stocks is more clearly understood when subjected to yield-based (dog catcher) analysis, these dividend-boosted batches are perfect for the Arnold dog catcher process. Here is your May 11 to June 1 combined data from Barron's for 67 dividend-paying stocks as suppl...

Markets have settled and recovered from the initial shock of the coronavirus spread and the response of governments around the US and the world to lock down the economy. But while the major US indices have approached, if not quite matched, the fabled v-shaped recovery, there are still plenty o...

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (the "Fund") (NYSE: FCT) has increased its regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution to $0.105 per share from $0.0825 per share. The distribution will be payable on June 15, 2020, to shareholders of record as of June 2, 2020. The ex-...