HIX News and Press, Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. From 10/27/19

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We ha...

Last week, Howard Marks delivered his latest memo. In what he describes as a break with precedent, he chose the topic based not on "a series of events [that] can be interestingly juxtaposed," but on "a request." According to Marks, a colleague (Ian Schapiro, who leads Oaktree’s Power ...

Egan-Jones is Third Major Independent Proxy Advisory Firm, following ISS and Glass Lewis, to Support the Fund’s Director Nominees Western Asset High Income Fund II Encourages Stockholders to Vote “FOR” the Fund’s Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card ...

Investors love anything claiming to be high yield . For taxable investors, headline yields are an illusion and this post shows after-tax returns for popular high yield ETFs. High Yield Bonds Let’s start with the poster child for high yield ETF investing: iShares iBoxx $ High Yiel...

Western Asset High Income Fund II Urges Stockholders to Protect the Value of Their Investment by Voting “FOR” the Fund’s Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) (“the Fund”) today announced that ...

Saba Capital is known both for its high yield credit and its closed-end fund strategies. Lately, it is the Saba's closed-end fund activism that has stirred the most controversy. Saba has $4.2 billion in AUM according to their latest form ADV. Therefore, even in cases where it owns a large pe...

By Matthew Sheridan As economic cycles enter their later stages, investors sometimes find that they're taking too much risk to generate income. There's a strategy that can help - and we think now is the time to use it. Pairing high-yield corporate bonds and other credit assets with high-...

Based on the original article, which can be found here . There is a potentially big opportunity for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets to develop parametric cat bonds that could cover some of the growing risks in Eastern Europe and Western areas of Asia. For a wide range ...

By Robin Marshall, director, fixed income research at FTSE Russell When US investment-grade bonds are downgraded and cross the ratings threshold into high yield territory, they join the sector known as "fallen angels." And while they're technically categorized as high yield ((HY)) bonds...

By Gershon Distenfeld Transcript: Risk assets, be it high-yield bonds, equity markets worldwide, are not pricing in all that much bad news. The rates markets worldwide are. One of them is wrong. I see time and time again that people say we're later in the cycle, I don't want to ow...