FOF News and Press, Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund Inc. From 12/06/20

Since there is barely any yield in investment grade bonds, people and institutions are scrambling. Closed-end funds: the most overlooked sector of the capital markets. Closed-end funds are the ugly duckling of the markets and yet that is why they offer such opportunity. For ...

A fund of funds approach can give instant diversification. The strategy is approached and is utilized in active CEFs or passive ETFs. They can be appropriate for income investors as they all pay a dividend. For further details see: Income Lab Ideas: 'Fund Of Funds'

The country with the largest economy, the biggest bond market and yet, we are paying higher yields than almost every other developed country. I think the Fed is going to come under tremendous pressure to reduce interest rates even further. As our government borrows more money, and...

The broader market took a dip later in the month, dragging most sectors but utilities down for the month. Opportunity may soon present itself over the coming months so I raised some cash to hopefully take advantage. This is the first month, in a long time, where I have raised a ne...

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund (FOF) had declared $0.087/share monthly dividend, in line with previous.Payable Nov. 30; for shareholders of record Nov. 18; ex-div Nov. 17.Additionally declared $0.087/share monthly dividend for December.Payable Dec. 31; for shareholders of...

I received $747 in October, which was slightly lower than the July comparable but slightly up year over year. I continued closing out underperforming holdings and focusing on quality individual picks and indexing the rest. Cash remains high in light of all of the upcoming uncertai...

Seeking "Alpha" means trying to do better than average (i.e. better than "Beta"); a worthy objective that, not surprisingly, less than half of all investors actually achieve. The more aggressively an investor attempts to achieve Alpha, the more they usually end up holding lower-yieldi...

Multi-asset investing has grown dramatically in popularity during the last decade. This segment of the market has been relatively underserved by benchmark providers historically. Many multi-asset funds have operated without a formal benchmark or have relied on peer group approache...

Our "Hunker Down" portfolio is now about two months old and it's doing what it was designed to do. That is - generating a cash income that we hope is solid enough to continue through "thick and thin," whatever that turns out to be. Income up slightly, as one fund, FLC, increased i...

I received $1,553 in September, which was better than the $1,269 in September 2019. For the quarter I received $3,093 which was up 6.5% from Q3 in 2019. I closed out several positions to focus on my prime dividend growth holdings and index the rest. For further details see: ...