GDO News and Press, Western Asset Global Corporate Defined Opportunity Fund Inc. From 07/21/21

For a number of years prior to the COVID crisis, U.K.- and EU-based investors viewed currency hedging costs as a massive barrier to investing in U.S. dollar-denominated bonds. Looking at investment-grade corporate bonds in different currencies, the EUR credit index currently has an av...

We’ve moved past the early-cycle environment that predominated risk taking in 2020, post the pandemic lows, and we’re moving really into a mid-cycle environment, which tends to be constructive for risk. This mid-cycle environment is still going to be expansionary, albeit...

We review CEF market valuation and performance over the past week and highlight recent events. The CEF market is expensive, however you cut it. We take a look at select distribution changes, some weird action at quarter-end and discuss our stance. For further details see: ...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to push higher in June, based on the annualized Sharpe ratio for a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. GMI’s 10-year SR increased to 0.84, the highest in 18 months. GMI is an unmanaged, market-value...

Investment uncertainty is focused on the nature of the current spike in inflation, which the Fed argues is transitory, though a growing number of people do not buy this narrative. Historically, the Fed has never been able to head off any longer-lasting inflation uptrends without a recessi...

Annuities are one of the best tools for a retirement income plan but have one large drawback - the loss of principal. You give up your assets for a lifetime income stream that lasts as long as you and your spouse live. The insurance company assumes all of the risks. A CEF portfoli...

Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed end funds have declared their distributions for the months of June, July, and August 2021. The following dates apply to the distribution schedule below: This press release is not for tax reporting purposes...

As Q1 comes to an end, we take a look at the performance of the CEF market year-to-date. We also take a look at the key drivers of CEF discounts going forward. And focus, in particular, on how CEF performance is likely to pan out relative to open-end funds in the current environme...

Taxable bond CEFs are now at their tightest levels of the last eight years going back to 2012-early 2013. There's not much juice left. That doesn't mean that we need to sell out of CEFs, we just need to be more prudent and vigilant. That includes re-positioning to the best ideas along...

We take a look at a majority investment-grade credit CEF GDO which ticks a few boxes for income investors. The fund has a 2/3 IG allocation, attractive discount valuation, a term structure that could provide a tailwind and a measure of discount control. The fund also boasts strong...