FCT News and Press, First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II of Beneficial Interest From 02/13/19

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that its Leveraged Finance Investment Team, portfolio manager for the First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (NYSE: FCT) and First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund (NYSE: FIV) (each a “Fund”...

The Invesco Senior Loan ETF (NYSEARCA: BKLN ) took in $22.6M yesterday, according to Bloomberg. That adds to the roughly $200M of inflows seen the previous two sessions, and marks the first time since November that the fund has seen three straight days of inflows. More news on: Invesco Sen...

Risk in large syndicated bank loans has declined due to improving conditions in most sectors, say federal banking agencies in their "Shared National Credit Review" released Friday. More news on: Oxford Lane Capital, Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., Financial stoc...

The Invesco Senior Loan ETF (NYSEARCA: BKLN ) saw another $92.3M pulled yesterday, according to Bloomberg. That makes it nine straight sessions of outflows totaling $341M. More news on: Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., Voya Prime Rate Trust, News on ETFs, Read ...

For the first time in a year, there will be no leveraged loan defaults for an entire calendar month, according to Fitch. More news on: Invesco Senior Loan ETF, Eagle Point Credit Company Inc., Voya Prime Rate Trust, News on ETFs, Read more ...

Introduction In this article, I will make a weekly review of CEFs that invest in senior loans. Considering the risk and return, senior loans are positioned between investment grade corporate bonds and high yield bonds. Usually, they have a floating rate feature and are expected to be less ...

Investors led by Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX ) are set to start marketing $8B of leveraged corporate loans next week to finance their buyout of Thomson Reuters's (NYSE: TRI ) financial and risk business, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter. More news on: The Blacksto...

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (NYSE: FCT ) declares $0.06/share monthly dividend , in line with previous. More news on: First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II, Dividend News, , Read more ...

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 $0.06 per share payable on September 17, 2018, to shareholders of record as of September 5, 2018. The ex-dividend dat...