FSD News and Press, First Trust High Income Long Short Fund of Beneficial Interest From 07/01/21

Rising Star volume gains momentum as the global economy continues its recovery, which we believe will provide attractive total return opportunity in Fixed Income. Over the course of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic adversely impacted fundamentals and markets, we experienced a new record...

We review CEF market valuation and performance over the past week and highlight recent events. We highlight news and market action across a number of CEFs such as HFRO, FSLF, IGI, and a pair of Invesco loan funds. Valuation and distribution challenges remain two key risks for CEF ...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to tick higher in May. GMI’s Sharpe ratio — a measure of risk-adjusted return – rose to 0.82 on a trailing 10-year basis through last month. That’s close to a pandemic high, but still...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...

HIX is heavily invested in various fixed-income securities, which could come under pressure in a period of higher inflation or rising interest rates. HIX has been able to weather the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic exceptionally well over the last year. The fund offers a month...

In this report we look at a few short-term options to add to your account to take advantage of rising NAVs and closing discounts. We hunted for higher yielding funds that are trading at wider discounts to NAV and likely to be bought by retail investors. Most of these are buy-and-r...

While many yields are at, or near, their historic lows, opportunity remains in select segments of emerging-market debt, triple B-rated corporate bonds and certain areas of the mortgage-securities market. A good way to approach value stocks has been to find those that are attractively ...

Today's post rolls out the inaugural Risk Review column for the major asset classes, a monthly update that's the companion piece to the monthly performance report and risk-premia estimates. Risk analysis is a broad and deep subject and so this monthly update will be no one's idea of a...

While most people are aware there was a financial crisis in 2008, they will surely fail to link it with the next one. There are four debt categories: government, financial, non-financial corporate and consumer. Banks act as the intermediary between central banks and the non-financ...