HIX News and Press, Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. From 03/29/22

Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) (CUSIP: 95766J 110) (“HIX” or the “Fund”) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a transferable rights offering (the “Offer”). The Offer to acquire additional shares of common ...

Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc. (NYSE: HIX) today announced the financial position of the Fund as of January 31, 2022. Footnotes: (a) The difference between total assets and total net assets is due primarily to the Fund’s use of borrowings; total net assets do not in...

HIPS is an income fund invested in CEFs, MLPs, REITs, and BDCs. The high yield comes with a high expense ratio and share price decay. The current distribution per share doesn’t look sustainable in the long term. An alternative high-yield strategy taking into account tot...

Only funds with yields over 6.5%, coverage higher than 85% and trading at under a +5% premium are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. The top DxY funds are ARDC, EHI and JRI. Buys affirmed on portfolio holdings, ARDC, JRI and HYB. For furth...

As the world reels from the crisis, the blowback is rippling across the world economy and markets. The current risk premia analysis implicitly recommends managing expectations down for GMI and other global multi-asset-class portfolios. The mean reversion factor is estimated as the...

Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed end funds have declared their distributions for the months of March, April and May 2022. The following dates apply to the distribution schedule below: This press release is not for tax reporting purposes b...

Only funds with yields over 6.5%, coverage higher than 85% and trading at under a +5% premium are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. The top DxY funds are EHI, DSL and BGH. For further details see: The 'High-High-Low' Closed-End Fund Repor...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index edged down in January from the previous month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors to adjust the forecast reduces GMI’s ex-ante risk premium to an annualized 5.4%. Th...

“Buy and hope” investing has never been more hopeless. With bond yields doing a “moonshot” to 1.8%, they are now looking down at the S&P 500’s sad 1.3% yield. Still, let’s admit—these aren’t enough for us to be able to retire o...

Today we’re going to make a couple crafty moves worthy of the canniest contrarian—and in doing so, we’ll grab reliable income plays other investors are snubbing (with outsized yields up to 8.6%). These moves fly right in the face of the Federal Reserve’s plan...