GGM News and Press, Guggenheim Credit Allocation Fund of Beneficial Interest From 01/27/20

Credit markets have rallied significantly over the past few years, with spreads over Treasuries in the U.S., for example, dwindling to very tight levels alongside decreasing yields. At the same time, many investors have raised concerns over credit market volatility, liquidity, potential overva...

Introduction The past week was relatively calm and uneventful for the high-yield bonds and the closed-end funds which invest in this type of asset. The economy continues to be strong and the data from the past week proved it. The housing starts jumped to a 13-year high and retail sales...

By Matthew Sheridan The era of low yields and the investment challenges they bring isn't likely to end soon. Ongoing geopolitical tensions and slowing global growth will contribute to persistently low and negative yields in 2020 . A global slowdown could leave the world even more vulnerab...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy and Josh Shapiro, CFA, Quantitative Strategist Our base case is that the credit cycle will not turn in 2020. Investors will likely continue to seek income in higher-yielding fixed income assets. An important topic in credit strategy resear...

Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country. - Murray Rothbard First it was a game, a wonderful game, but just a game. Then, as fic...

You Can't Fight the Central Banks "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild When I was growing up in Kansas City, Missouri I often heard the expression that "You can't fight City Hall." This comment was based upon the o...

Fine-Tuning My Thoughts “If you can’t write about it, you haven’t really thought about it. This is why every year Warren [Buffett] sits down and writes a long letter to his shareholders explaining the past year’s events. This exercise has helped him immensely to ...

By Patricia Healy, CFA This commentary continues the discussion on key themes of the year, many long-term in nature, & reveal the need for govts & businesses to adapt. Pensions, budgets, state ratings, climate adaptation, cybersecurity, and investing This fourth-quarter com...

Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high discoun...

Although risk-free yields have nudged up a bit after seven years of Fed ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) from 2008 to 2015, the desirability of investment grade or bank insured yield vehicles remains muted. Indeed, with the 10-year Treasury continuing to sit sub-two percent and the Fed easing ...